Electric Vehicle Charging Guidance Algorithm Based on Informer
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Abstract
With the vigorous development of the electric vehicle (EV) industry, the
demand for charging has surged. However, the relative lag in the
construction of charging infrastructure has led to a series of problems
for drivers, such as difficulty in finding available charging stations
and long waiting times for charging. To address this, this paper
proposes an EV charging guidance framework based on an Informer network
and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL), aiming at achieving
efficient EV charging guidance. Firstly, this paper regards charging
stations as independent agents, integrating information from vehicles,
charging stations, and traffic, transforming the multi-objective
optimization problem of EV charging guidance into a multi-agent
reinforcement learning task. Then, an Actor-Critic algorithm combined
with the Informer is designed, utilizing the Informer in the Critic
network to model the interactions between different charging stations,
thereby reducing the complexity of policy learning and enhancing
coordination among agents. Subsequently, after calculating the advantage
function for the agents, the Actor network is updated to improve
learning efficiency. The proposed algorithm was simulated and validated
in two different EV charging scenarios. The simulation results show that
compared with several state-of-the-art methods, our algorithm achieved
the best results in multi-objective optimization, demonstrating its
superiority and practicality of our proposed algorithm.