Validation of agent based reconfiguration scheme using modeling and simulation approach

ABSTRACT

A popular distributed intelligence/control approach for research is the agent based application. Agent based solutions are being applied to diverse problems including reconfiguration of power systems. Although developing an efficient approach is important, also important is the validation of that approach and its realtime or near realtime performance. This paper discusses the importance of modeling and simulation towards verification of an agent based reconfiguration scheme for power systems. Results of two different modeling and simulation approaches are presented. In the first approach Virtual Test Bed software was used for validation of multi agent based reconfiguration algorithm. In the second case the same agents' performance was analyzed with processor-in-the-loop experiments with a real time digital simulator.

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INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
distributed intelligence, modeling, multi agent system, reconfiguration, simulation