Multi Agent System based fault location and isolation in a smart microgrid system

Author

Alwala, Seetaram ; Feliachi, Ali ; Choudhry, M.A.

Author_Institution

Lane Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV, USA

fYear

2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, a Multi Agent System (MAS) based on sequence current magnitudes and current direction is proposed for fault location and isolation in a smart microgrid system. Each of the fault types has a different impact on the sequence current components, which along with the direction of the current during a fault can be used for fault location. The microgrid has been implemented by adding Distributed Generation at various locations of the 37-bus IEEE benchmark system and its fault simulation has been done in OpenDss which is an open source distribution system simulation software.

Keywords

IEEE standards; distributed power generation; fault diagnosis; multi-agent systems; power engineering computing; power generation faults; smart power grids; 37-bus IEEE benchmark system; MAS; OpenDss; distributed generation; distribution system simulation software; fault isolation; fault location; multiagent system; sequence current magnitudes; smart microgrid system; Circuit faults; Computer architecture; Fault location; Load flow; Substations; Switches; Fault Location and Isolation; Micro grid; Multi Agent technology; OpenDss;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT), 2012 IEEE PES

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2158-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISGT.2012.6175813

Filename

6175813