Distribution system fault localization, fault restoration and network reconfiguration using multi agent based system

Abstract

Power distribution networks reduce their reliability during the fault localization, isolation and network reconfiguration. The fault localization of High voltage and medium voltage systems consumes more time and network reconfiguration get complex when there are more interconnections. Multi Agent System is simply developed based on the one important component named as agent and the system comprises of more than one agent is named as the multi agent system. There are various definitions for the multi agent system. The agent is the most important concept of the multi agent system and agent is defined as a software component having special features to bring its autonomy. With its special features agent can act as a human agent and it helps to model complex system and introduce the possibility of having common or conflicting goals. The agent comprises with the main special features of autonomous, social, reactive and proactive. Therefore the objective of the study is to provide a methodological approach to manage the fault restorations of power distribution system in Sri Lanka using a de-centralized technique. Agent based solution was implemented with Multi Agent System (MAS). The system comprises with Application layer, Interface layer and communication layer. The application layer was developed using Java Agent Development Environment (JADE).