Multi-agent based operation and control of isolated power system with dispersed power sources including new energy storage device

Abstract

This paper presents a multi-agent based operation and control of isolated power systems with dispersed power sources such as photo-voltaic units, wind generation units, diesel generation units, and new energy storage devices such as the Energy Capacitor System (ECS). An advanced automatic generation control (AGC) scheme has been proposed through the coordination between the diesel unit and the ECS with small capacity. All the required information for the proposed multi-agent based AGC is distributed among intelligent agents through the computer network. All the AGC function is achieved by using the proposed multi-agent based control system. To demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed multi-agent based scheme, analog simulator tests have been performed. Simulations results indicate that the AGC performance has been highly improved by the proposed multi-agent based AGC scheme even in the existence of the communication delay time through computer networks.