Optimal Reconfiguration of the Navy Ship Power System using Agents

This paper is a study of the optimization of a configuration and reconfiguration problem applied to the navy ship power system presenting a redundant power distribution layout. The multiagent method has been applied in order to make the power system converge towards its optimal configuration in its initial start up and during normal operation when a reconfiguration is required. The optimal process has been achieved by the agents and the simulations have been conducted with different cases of operation mode of the navy ship. The optimal configurations were derived through a program written in C++ for the agents and the results confirm the feasibility of applying the multiagent method for optimizing the navy ship power system