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battery dispatch / virtual power plant

Tesla Autobidder

SystemTechniques · 29Primitives · 83 virtual-power-plant Clock synchronizationdistributed · medium: Estimate a clock's offset from four timestamps, filter out queueing noise, and steer the clock smoothly; NTP gets about a millisecond, PTP with hardware timestamps under a microsecond.›Deterministic simulation testingdistributed · medium: Run the whole system in one thread under a seeded scheduler with simulated network, disk and clock, so every failure replays from its seed.›Primary-backup replicationdistributed · medium: One node orders all writes and ships them to standbys; the acknowledgement rule (none, one, all) sets what a crash loses, and an external arbiter decides who takes over.›Automatic generation controlembedded · medium: Load-frequency control: area control error integrated and dispatched to generatorsBattery state estimationembedded · medium: State of charge / health / power from coulomb counting, OCV curves and model-based observersCall auction clearingfinance · medium: Uniform-price call auction: aggregate supply/demand curves and find the clearing price and volumeGradient-boosted decision trees (GB…machine-learning · medium: Add small regression trees one at a time, each fitted to the loss gradient; histogram splits over 256 bins make it the strongest tabular default.›Droop controlembedded · low: Frequency/voltage droop: proportional power response that lets inverters share load without communicationSimplex methodoptimization · low: Solves linear programs by walking along the edges of the feasible polytope from vertex to vertex, one basis swap (pivot) at a time; the workhorse behind MIP solvers.›Gorilla XOR compressioncompression · low: Time-series codec: delta-of-delta timestamps plus XOR of consecutive float bit patterns, storing only changed bits; about 1.4 bytes per point.›Hdr histogramdata-structures · low: Log-linear bucketed histograms with bounded relative error for latency percentilesIdempotency keysfinance · low: Client-chosen unique key per logical operation, stored with a request fingerprint and the final response, so retries replay the first result instead of acting twice.›Process supervisionhardware-os · low: A parent process starts services, reaps their exits and restarts them under a delay and burst-limit policy, then stops them with SIGTERM before SIGKILL.›Mqtt protocolnetworking · low: MQTT pub/sub: topics, QoS 0/1/2, retained messages, sessions and keepaliveMutual TLSsecurity · low: TLS where the client also proves a certificate key, so every connection carries a verified, rotatable machine identity.›Graceful drainingsystems · low: On a termination signal, stop taking new work, finish in-flight work until a deadline, tell clients to reconnect elsewhere, then exit; clients resume from a token.›PID controllerrobotics · low: Drive a measured value to a setpoint with three terms on the error: proportional, integral, derivative. The default feedback loop for motors, heaters, drones and gimbals.›Phase-locked loop (digital)signal-processing · low: Feedback loop that locks a local oscillator to the phase and frequency of an input tone; the core of carrier recovery, clock recovery and GNSS tracking.›Robust statisticsstatistics · low: Location and scale estimates (median, MAD, trimmed mean, Huber M-estimator) that stay correct when a minority of the data is garbage.›Cooperative schedulingconcurrency · low: Green threads/coroutines yielding at await points on a user-space schedulerRecord replaydistributed · low: Record every nondeterministic input (time, randomness, I/O, model and tool outputs, per-tick player input) and re-execute deterministically for debugging, replays and state rebuildPRNGs (PCG, xoshiro)numerics · low: Small, fast, statistically strong non-cryptographic generators: PCG32 and xoshiro256**, with seeding, parallel streams and unbiased ranges.›Leasesdistributed · low: A lock that expires on its own: bounded-time ownership that survives crashes and partitions, given bounded clock drift and fencing tokens on writes.›+ 22 more techniques+ 67 more primitives

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