A multi-agent approach to power system restoration

Author

Nagata, T. ; Sasaki, H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Hiroshima Inst. of Technol., Japan

Volume

17

Issue

2

fYear

2002

fDate

5/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

457

Lastpage

462

Abstract

This paper proposes a multi-agent approach to power system restoration. The proposed system consists of a number of bus agents (BAGS) and a single facilitator agent (FAG). BAG is developed to decide a suboptimal target configuration after a fault occurrence by interacting with other BAGS based on only locally available information, while FAG is to act as a manager in the decision process. The interaction of several simple agents leads to a dynamic system, allowing efficient approximation of a solution. Simulation results have demonstrated that this method is able to reach suboptimal target configurations, which are favorably compared with those obtained by a mathematical programming approach

Keywords

Java; multi-agent systems; power engineering computing; power system faults; power system restoration; Java; agent-oriented programming; bus agents; decision process; dynamic system; facilitator agent; fault occurrence; locally available information; multi-agent approach; power system restoration; suboptimal target configuration; Electronic switching systems; Expert systems; Mathematical programming; Multiagent systems; Power engineering computing; Power supplies; Power system dynamics; Power system faults; Power system restoration; Power system simulation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8950

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TPWRS.2002.1007918

Filename

1007918