Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm with Adaptive Inertia Applied to Residential Load Identification

• Grant number: 24/05319-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: October 01, 2024
• End date: September 30, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Electrical Engineering - Electrical, Magnetic and Electronic Measurements, Instrumentation
• Principal Investigator: Ricardo Augusto Souza Fernandes
• Grantee: João Paulo dos Santos Sampaio Silva
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Exatas e de Tecnologia (CCET). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Electricity demand has been constantly increasing, mainly in the last decade, as well as the solutions for the efficient use of electrical energy. Therefore, it is of great interest to the scientific community and energy sector the development of Nonintrusive Load Monitoring methodologies. In this sense, some NILM methodologies can be characterized as an optimization problem, being this the focus of the present research project. For this purpose, it will be considered an approach based on Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm with adaptive inertia. Thus, the optimization algorithm will be responsible to estimate the load vector with its respective consumptions for a determined temporal window, i.e., it will disaggregate the residential consumption for each appliance. In order to analyze and compare the proposed methodology with the state-of-the-art ones, a public benchmark dataset will be used, namely as UK-DALE (United Kingdom -- Domestic Appliance-Level Electricity).