Intelligent system applications in distribution outage management

Intelligent system methods help provide an additional tool in the development of applications for distribution power systems. These intelligent systems help model parts of the process that do not lend themselves to large numerical programs. Examples include dealing with uncertainty and heuristic applications. This summary outlines efforts to incorporate intelligent system techniques into distribution outage management. These efforts include using fuzzy logic to filter multiple sources of information related to outages as well as a knowledge-based system to identify the location of an outage and then verify the outage status using meter polling. Such techniques allow the processing of additional data providing more real-time analysis techniques for distribution systems.