An artificial immune approach for service restoration in smart distribution systems

The power system reconfiguration is a challenging task. As smart grids concepts develop, different approaches try to take advantage of the grid intelligent features and infrastructure to evolve a fast and robust self-healing scheme. At the distribution level, the self-healing schemes are responsible for performing automatic corrective and self-restorative actions. This task includes managing the service restoration by locating and isolating the fault, and reconfiguring the network topology to decrease the harm. This paper presents a self-healing scheme using Artificial Immune System as an optimization tool to solve the service restoration problem in power systems considering faults within the internal switch breakers. To make this approach suitable for bigger systems, the Prim Algorithm is used due to its capacity to generate minimum spanning trees from a graph. The proposed scheme is tested on benchmark systems to investigate the capacity of proposing feasible solutions for faulted systems.