An intelligent front end for secondary power distribution system design

Author

Rao, Nutakki.D. ; Zhang, Yimin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Calgary Univ., Alta., Canada

Volume

7

Issue

2

fYear

1992

fDate

4/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

927

Lastpage

933

Abstract

A description is presented of the development and use of an expert system (ES)-based intelligent front-end (IFE) for radial-type, electric power secondary distribution system (single-phase three-phase, overhead/underground) design. The design is based on minimizing the total annual cost (TAC) of owning and operating the system, subject to specified voltage drop and dip criteria. A rule-based, goal-driven, backward chaining ES shell, VP-Expert, is used to create the IFE and interface it with relational database files on transformer data and transmission line data. The database files act as the fact base of the expert system. The rule base, which uses English-like `IF. . .THEN. . .´ structure, contains all of the rules for the secondary distribution system design, and has the ability to solve conflicting problems

Keywords

distribution networks; expert systems; power system CAD; VP-Expert; backward chaining; expert system; expert system shell; overhead distribution system; radial distribution system; relational database files; secondary power distribution system design; single-phase three-phase; transformer data; transmission line data; underground distribution system; voltage dip; voltage drop; Costs; Diagnostic expert systems; Expert systems; Information retrieval; Intelligent systems; Power distribution; Power transmission lines; Relational databases; User interfaces; Voltage fluctuations;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8977

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/61.127100

Filename

127100