Application of multi agent system for distribution system automation

The development of technology and increase in the demand of electricity becomes a great challenge for the power distribution utilities to provide an uninterruptable supply to the consumers. Thus Distribution Automation is required for fault identification, isolation and restoration of loads in an efficient manner. The unfaulted but out-of service loads are restored on priority basis. In this paper, a Decentralized method using Multi Agent Systems (MAS) are proposed for a 9-bus test system and the simulation is done using MATLAB/Simulink and the Multi agent system is developed in Java Agent Development Environment (JADE). It reveals that the MAS technology is the fastest method for distribution automation.