Mathias, JoelBusic, AnaMeyn, Sean2016-12-292016-12-292017-01-04978-0-9981331-0-2http://hdl.handle.net/10125/41537A distributed control architecture is presented that is intended to make a collection of heterogeneous loads appear to the grid operator as a nearly perfect battery. Local control is based on randomized decision rules advocated in prior research, and extended in this paper to any load with a discrete number of power states. Additional linear filtering at the load ensures that the input-output dynamics of the aggregate has a nearly flat input-output response: the behavior of an ideal, multi-GW battery system. \ \10 pagesengAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 InternationalDemand DispatchDemand ResponseDistributed ControlRandomized AlgorithmsConference Paper10.24251/HICSS.2017.380