这篇论文提出了一种简单的联邦强化学习聚合方法,在微电网场景下比FedAvg更安全高效,能同时提升奖励和降低违规。
该论文提出约束感知聚合方法,用于联邦强化学习中的分布式能源协调。与标准FedAvg不同,惩罚基聚合规则(w_i ∝ R_i - αV_i)在DairyGridEnv基准上实现奖励与安全性的可靠权衡。使用芬兰和德国FIELD数据集评估,惩罚基聚合显著减少约束违规并提高奖励。
Constraint-Aware Aggregation for Federated Reinforcement Learning in Microgrid Energy Coordination
Federated Reinforcement Learning (FedRL) enables coordination of distributed energy resources without sharing raw local data, but standard aggregation methods such as FedAvg do not account for system-level constraints, often leading to unsafe global behavior. In this work, we study constraint-aware aggregation for federated reinforcement learning in distributed energy coordination. We propose aggregation rules that incorporate both local performance and estimated constraint violation into the server-side update. Among these, a simple penalty-based rule, $w_i \propto R_i - αV_i$, consistently provides the most reliable trade-off between reward and safety, without requiring dual optimization or modifications to local training. \textcolor{black}{We evaluate our approach on DairyGridEnv, a benchmark modeling multiple farms coordinating battery storage under stochastic demand and a shared grid capacity constraint, and further assess robustness using real load-driven demand profiles from Finland and the German FIELD dataset. Across multiple seeds, penalty-based aggregation substantially reduces violations while improving reward relative to FedAvg in both synthetic and real load-driven settings.} A combined reward-violation scheme exposes a tunable trade-off via $λ$, but is less stable. These results demonstrate that lightweight aggregation strategies can substantially improve empirical safety in federated reinforcement learning while preserving standard communication protocols.