Title :
Island identification in customer-driven micro-grids
Author :
Jain, Palak ; Ranade, S.J. ; Srivastava, S.K.
Author_Institution :
Klipsch Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM, USA
Abstract :
In this paper, the potential of a completely decentralized multi-agent based control architecture is explored for the identification of viable islands in a customer-driven micro-grid prior to a fault or disturbance. The agents follow a set of rules and determine the prospective islands, in case a fault results in the opening of sub-station breaker, by communicating only with their immediate neighbors. An IEEE 34-bus test system was analyzed by running simulations on Matlab/Simulink. A graphical user interface (GUI) was developed in JAVA for the visualization of islands formed in the network.
Keywords :
Availability; Controllability; Fault diagnosis; Graphical user interfaces; Network topology; Power system economics; Power system reliability; Protection; Strategic planning; System testing; Capacity-discovery; customer-driven; decentralized architecture; islanding; micro-grid; multi-agent;
Conference_Titel :
Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition, 2010 IEEE PES
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6546-0
DOI :
10.1109/TDC.2010.5484480
