Chapter 3
Distributed Intelligence in Power Systems
3.1 Introduction to MAS Technology
Multiagent system (MAS) is perhaps one of the most exciting and the fastest growing domains in agent-oriented technology which deals with the modeling of autonomous decision-making entities. This paper presents an application of MAS for distributed energy resource (DER) management in a microgrid. Mi-crogrids can be defined as low voltage distributed power networks comprising various distributed generators (DG), storage and controllable loads, which can be operated interconnectedly or as islands from the main power grid. By representing each element in the microgrid as an autonomous intelligent agent, multi agent modeling of a microgrid is designed ...
