A Mobile Agent for measurements in distributed power electronic systems

This work introduces the use of a mobile agent for the purpose of power quality assessment in systems with distributed control. The mobile agent introduced here leverages on the agent-based distributed control of the electrical loads of a power electronic distribution system. While the stationary agents control local loads autonomously and are capable of negotiations for reconfiguration purpose, they have to rely on external resources for certain types of more sophisticated evaluations of operating condition, such as power quality pollution. The authors have already considered the option of a stationary monitoring agent capable of providing these information and the option of embedding additional algorithms in the load agents. In this work a new approach based on a mobile agent is investigated. The advantage of such solution consists primarily in its flexibility, in fact the mobile agent can be easily re-deployed to serve various purposes exploiting the distributed computational capability.