Real-time simulation of multi-agent system for decentralized voltage regulation in distribution network

This paper presents a real-time simulation of multi-agent systems for decentralized secondary voltage control method in distribution network. The real-time simulation is performed by using an original platform called “Distributed Energy”. It combines two tools: The first one is a real-time digital simulator for electric power simulation. The second one is a java agent development framework used to program distributed systems and peer-to-peer applications. A decentralized secondary voltage control method is presented. The Multi-agent approach is used to share the voltage regulation effort and perform the coordination of distributed generators with flexibility and reliability in distribution network. Some real-time simulation results are presented.