Decentralized approach to normal operations for power system network

In this paper, we developed a power system normal operation application by multi-agent approach. The multi-agent system consists of several facilitator agents, equipment agents, and switch-box agents. A facilitator agent acts as a manager for negotiation process between agents. An equipment agent corresponds to the element of the electric power system, such as bus, transformer, and transmission line, while switch-box agent is the pseudo object which consists of neighboring current breakers and disconnecting switches. The proposed approach is applied to a simple network and a practical-size network, and the results show that the proposed multi-agent system approach is an efficient decentralized approach for solving power system normal operations