Reconfiguration for restoration of power systems using a multi-agent system

Author

Solanki, Jignesh M. ; Schulz, Noel N. ; Wenzhong Gao

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Mississippi State Univ., MS, USA

fYear

2005

fDate

23-25 Oct. 2005

Firstpage

390

Lastpage

395

Abstract

Power system reconfiguration is vital in order to keep continuous supply to important loads after isolation of the fault, supply is also cut off to some of the un-faulted sections. Most of the approaches for restoration in literature are centralized solutions. Centralized solutions lead to single point of failure, which is undesirable for an electric ship in battle condition. In this paper, a decentralized solution, which uses a prototype multi-agent system approach, is proposed to isolate the fault and restore the power supply quickly and autonomously. For the simulation of three phase unbalanced system a three-phase PQ load model is developed in virtual test bed (VTB). The system is implemented in VTB and MATLAB is used as an agent development framework.

Keywords

fault diagnosis; multi-agent systems; power engineering computing; power system restoration; MATLAB; agent development framework; decentralized solution; electric ship; fault isolation; power system restoration; prototype multiagent system approach; three phase unbalanced system; virtual test bed; Load modeling; Marine vehicles; Mathematical model; Multiagent systems; Power supplies; Power system faults; Power system modeling; Power system restoration; Prototypes; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Symposium, 2005. Proceedings of the 37th Annual North American

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9255-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NAPS.2005.1560571

Filename

1560571