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Edge-Cloud Collaborative Digital Twin and Hierarchical Intelligent Decision-Making Model for Low-Latency Energy Regulation

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  • @ARTICLE{10.4108/ew.14340,
        author={Xiaohua Zou},
        title={Edge-Cloud Collaborative Digital Twin and Hierarchical Intelligent Decision-Making Model for Low-Latency Energy Regulation},
        journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Energy Web},
        volume={13},
        number={1},
        publisher={EAI},
        journal_a={EW},
        year={2026},
        month={9},
        keywords={digital twin, edge-cloud collaboration, energy regulation, state estimation, hierarchical decision-making, model predictive control},
        doi={10.4108/ew.14340}
    }
    
  • Xiaohua Zou
    Year: 2026
    Edge-Cloud Collaborative Digital Twin and Hierarchical Intelligent Decision-Making Model for Low-Latency Energy Regulation
    EW
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/ew.14340
Xiaohua Zou1,*
  • 1: Changzhou University of Information Technology
*Contact email: xhua.zou@163.com

Abstract

High penetrations of distributed energy resources require energy regulation that combines cloud-level global optimization with edge-level fast response. This paper proposes EC-HDT, a device-edge-cloud hierarchical digital twin in which a lightweight graph-attention-temporal-convolution estimator reconstructs local states under asynchronous, noisy, and missing measurements, while a cloud predictor and model predictive controller perform rolling economic optimization. A five-factor decision weight based on communication latency, information freshness, estimation confidence, operational risk, and edge computational load continuously allocates control authority between edge and cloud, and a quadratic-programming safety layer enforces physical constraints. On the IEEE 33-bus system, EC-HDT achieves a nodal-voltage MAE of 0.0076 p.u., mean/P95 end-to-end latencies of 56.4/89.4 ms, and a 99.2% control success rate; the daily operating cost is 3.51% lower than that of the fixed-fusion scheme. The results indicate that state-aware edge-cloud coordination can improve the latency-economy-safety trade-off in distribution-system regulation.

Keywords
digital twin, edge-cloud collaboration, energy regulation, state estimation, hierarchical decision-making, model predictive control
Received
2026-08-05
Accepted
2026-08-25
Published
2026-09-02
Publisher
EAI
http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ew.14340

Copyright © 2026 Xiaohua Zou, licensed to EAI. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, which permits copying, redistributing, remixing, transformation, and building upon the material in any medium so long as the original work is properly cited.

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