Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Differentiable Predictive Control for Underground Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Systems

📅 2026-09-15
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本文通过扩展MI-DPC,利用神经网络策略映射及Gumbel-Softmax等方法解决了地下抽水蓄能系统的多模态离散决策和非凸多项式动力学问题。
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This paper extends Mixed-Integer Differentiable Predictive Control (MI-DPC) to multi-modal discrete decisions and nonconvex polynomial dynamics arising in Underground Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Systems (UPHES). A neural policy mapping problem parameters to continuous setpoints and integer mode selections via a Gumbel-Softmax layer is trained in a self-supervised manner by differentiating the expectation of the finite horizon control objective through the nonlinear dynamics model. Three methodological contributions enable this extension: a parallel differentiable simulator that preserves gradient magnitude, a Transformer encoder that captures long-range temporal dependencies, and a Gumbel-Softmax temperature annealing schedule that regularizes the combinatorial search. We demonstrate the framework on day-ahead scheduling of a UPHES, a large-scale mixed-integer optimal control problem with nonlinear unit performance curves and volume-head coupling. MI-DPC achieves only 1.6% suboptimality relative to a piecewise mixed-integer quadratic programming baseline, while providing five orders of magnitude speedup in online scheduling time.
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Mixed-Integer Nonlinear
Differentiable Predictive Control
Underground Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Systems
Multi-modal Discrete Decisions
Nonconvex Polynomial Dynamics
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Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Differentiable Predictive Control
Gumbel-Softmax Layer
Parallel Differentiable Simulator
Transformer Encoder
Temperature Annealing Schedule
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