Intelligent Agents Applied to Reconfiguration of Mesh Structured Power Systems

In this paper, the authors propose a multiagent system based reconfiguration methodology for mesh structured power systems. One of the important features of this multiagent architecture is that the intelligent agents in the multiagent system work in a completely decentralized manner. There is no central controller in the system. In this multiagent system, an agent can send/receive signals to/from a major electric component in the power system. Each agent only communicates with its immediate neighboring agents. A simulation platform is also introduced for validating the proposed reconfiguration methodology. In the simulation platform, the intelligent agents are implemented using Java agent development framework. The power system is implemented in a real time digital simulator. The simulation results show the proposed reconfiguration methodology is effective and promising.