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A microgrid consists of various types of smart distributed generators, renewable generators, storage devices and controllable load, which not only must meet their local needs but also are under the hierarchical control of management system. Due to this combination of conventional and renewable sources, the unit commitment becomes more crucial and more complicated in the management of a microgrid. In this paper, an improved genetic algorithm based method is proposed for unit commitment in a microgrid. The genetic algorithm is improved by adopting the simulated annealing technique to accelerate the convergence. The objective is to minimize microgrid's operational cost when it is isolated and maximize its revenue when it is connected to upstream networks.

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Deep learning (DL) methods are applied extensively in the field of state of charge (SOC) estimation, which require training data and test data to have similar distribution. Discrepancies in data distribution arising from the complexity and diversity of lithium-ion batteries under operational conditions in practice, as well as the difficulty in obtaining data labels, make it enormously challenging to access sufficient battery data to train a specific deep estimator. Aiming to improve the performance of cross-domain SOC estimation for lithium-ion batteries, a model for SOC estimation which combines transfer learning with singular value decomposition (SVD) is proposed. To begin, a gated recurrent unit network is employed to avail the nonlinear dynamic characteristics of the battery from the source and target domains. Then, the features are decoupled by using SVD method to extract task-relevant, important and minor information in the network. Further, the amount of transferred information over the source network to the target network is automatically tuned by the maximum mean discrepancy to determine the different degrees of similarity in domain, and the cosine discrepancy to measure the discrepancy on the same domain, which achieves the optimized performance of the target network.