Energy Management System for the CN MOST Laboratory at the Savona University Campus

This paper proposes a mixed-integer linear programming model for the energy management system of the new research laboratory that will be installed in the Savona Campus of the University of Genova, benefitting from the fundings of the Italian National Center for Sustainable Mobility. This energy management system is able to daily manage the nanogrid feeding the laboratory which will be equipped with a photovoltaic plant and a battery energy storage system, and will have to feed electric loads of the laboratory and a set of autonomous mobile robots used to execute different delivery tasks within the campus. The proposed energy management system optimizes power flows and robot task scheduling in order to minimize the operating costs, the curtailment of the photovoltaic source and the number of unperformed tasks. The application of the proposed mathematical formulation to the real case of the Savona Campus is presented and discussed in the paper.