Intelligent methods for reconfiguration of terrestrial and shipboard power systems

Increased reliability issues for terrestrial power systems are pushing more and more animation down to the distribution system. Additionally shipboard power systems have reconfiguration requirements to meet survivability and fight through capabilities. In each of these cases intelligent systems provide a solution for developing reconfiguration algorithms at the distribution level. While the objectives for two systems may be different, there is overlap. Additionally the terrestrial power systems have established IEEE test cases that provide a platform for verifying algorithm development. This panel summary will discuss efforts at Mississippi State University to use intelligent system techniques for distribution reconfiguration. Our research team has applications of multi-agent systems[2-10], genetic algorithms[11-13] and particle swarm optimization [12] and for different aspects of reconfiguration for both terrestrial and shipboard power systems. The various techniques and their results will be compared. Also several different types systems related to shipboard power systems will be introduced.