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http://dx.doi.org/10.5370/KIEE.2013.62.3.322

Development of Pilot Plant for Distributed Intelligent Management System of Microgrids  

Oh, Sang-Jin (School of Electrical Engineering, Kookmin University)
Yoo, Cheol-Hee (School of Electrical Engineering, Kookmin University)
Chung, Il-Yop (School of Electrical Engineering, Kookmin University)
Lim, Jae-Bong (School of Electrical Engineering, Kookmin University)
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The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers / v.62, no.3, 2013 , pp. 322-331 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper describes the development of the pilot plant of distributed intelligent management system for a microgrid. For optimal control and management of microgrids, intelligent agents area applied to the microgrid management system. Each agent includes intelligent algorithms to make decisions on behalf of the corresponding microgrid entity such as distributed generators, local loads, and so on. To this end, each agent has its own resources to evaluate the system conditions by collecting local information and also communicating with other agents. This paper presents key features of the data communication and management of the developed pilot plant such as the construction of mesh network using local wireless communication techniques, the autonomous agent coordination schemes using plug-and-play functions of agents and contract net protocol (CNP) for decision-making. The performance of the pilot plant and developed algorithms are verified via real-time microgrid test bench based on hardware-in-the-loop simulation systems.
Keywords
Microgrid; Multi-agent system; Distributed intelligent management system; Energy management system; Contract net protocol; Hardware-in-the-loop; Intelligent systems;
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