Distributed Approaches for Determination of Reconfiguration Algorithm Termination

The automatic reconfiguration of electric shipboard power systems is an important step toward improved fight-through and self-healing capabilities of all-electric naval warships. The authors have presented a distributed algorithm for autonomous reconfiguration within an energy management framework using an agent based approach. In the previous work, a blackboard architecture was used as globally shared memory structure for detection of algorithm termination. This paper presents alternative schemes for the detection of global properties, and specifically, detection of algorithm termination.