Multi-agent control coordination of Microgrid

Abstract

This paper presents an approach to have better control coordination in Microgrid structure with multi-agent intelligent control. The concept with multi-agent intelligent control may become a viable solution for Smart Grid architecture. The proposed control architecture contains many agents such as Control agent, Load agent and DER agent who are participatory in quick decision making for Microgrid control. The multi-agent controller is implemented using an open source agent building toolkit Java Agent Development framework (JADE). Simulation is carried out in Matlab environment. MACsimJX is used to interface the Simulink model with Multi agent system. The simulation has been carried out during normal, fault and over load conditions. The simulation results indicate that the proposed Multi-agent based controller coordinate effectively with different loads in Microgrid to ensure continuity of power supply to critical loads during normal, fault and overload conditions. © 2013 IEEE.