Strategic power infrastructure defense (SPID)

Summary form only given. An advanced system called, "strategic power infrastructure defense (SPID) system," was developed by the Advanced Power Technologies (APT) Consortium consisting of the University of Washington, Arizona State University, Iowa State University and Virginia Tech. By incorporating multi-agent system technologies, the SPID system is able to assess power system vulnerability, monitor hidden failures of protective devices, and provide adaptive control actions to prevent catastrophic failures and cascading sequences of events. The SPID program was sponsored by EPRI and the U.S. Department of Defense. In this session, the panelist will summarize the SPID methodology and the multi-agent system technologies that are critical for the implementation of the SPID system. The software agents in the SPID system are organized in a multi-layer structure to facilitate collaboration among the agents. The agents communicate through a protocol called FIPA. SPID has the ability to adapt to changes in the power infrastructure environment through the embedded machine learning capability. Simulation examples of the multi-agent system is provided.