An agent approach to bulk power system restoration

In this paper, we propose a new decentralized multi-agent approach for the bulk power system restoration. The proposed multi-agent system is constructed with two-level hierarchical architecture. Several local-area management agents (LMAs) and remote-area management agents (RMAs) are located at the upper level, which are corresponding to the local/remote area management system, while several load agents (LAGs) and generator agents (GAGs) are located at the lower level. In order to demonstrate the capability of the proposed multi-agent system, it has been applied to a model bulk power system. The simulation results show that the proposed multi-agent approach is effective and promising.