Decentralized Reconfiguration for Power Systems Using Multi Agent System

In this paper, the authors propose a multiagent system based methodology for power system reconfiguration. In the multiagent system, each agent represents one major component in the power system, such as generators, breakers, and loads. Each agent only communicates with its immediate neighboring agents making the agent system work in a completely decentralized manner. The authors also setup a simulation platform for testing the proposed the reconfiguration methodology. In the simulation platform, the MAS is implemented in Java agent development framework and the power system is implemented in real time digital simulator. The simulation results show that the proposed reconfiguration approach is effective and promising.