Deep learning enabled smart charging technology for electric vehicles

Reliability, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of smart grids are enhanced with power demand softening by means of efficient load management in electric vehicles. In such initiatives, the involvement of EV users may reduce due to the lack of adaptable user-centric approaches. During the connection sessions, the EV charging time is determined using a deep learning algorithm-based smart charging strategy proposed in this paper. Here, the total energy cost of the vehicle is minimized by making charging decisions considering demand time series, pricing, environment, driving, and other auxiliary data. The memorization technique is used for the estimation of the optimal solution of the existing connection sessions in the initial stage. The deep learning models are trained with this existing data and optimal decisions to make suitable decisions in real-time scenarios where car usage or future energy price values are undetermined. A significant reduction in the charging cost is observed by training the neural network with the proposed model. The results obtained are compared to the optimal charging costs computed and are found to be closely similar.