The control of Distributed Generation System using Multi-Agent System

In order to overcome the weakness of the conventional control method, multi-level control method is proposed in this paper to control the Distributed Generation System (DGS). The proposed control strategy can overcome the weakness of slow and imprecise because each level can control the system respectively. Multi-Agent System (MAS, it is one of the popular method in Distributed Artificial Intelligence in the past years.) can model complex systems and introduce the possibility of agents having common or conflicting goals. They may decide to cooperate for mutual benefit or may compete to serve their own interests. Therefore, MAS is used to model the DGS in this paper. A control framework of DGS was proposed using the MAS technology. And the program was developed using JADE (Java Agent Development Framework) which is one of the helpful and convenient develop environment of MAS. The framework realizes the functions of the generation scheduling and the control of the voltage and the frequency.