A self-organizing multi-agent system for distributed voltage regulation

Al Faiya, Badr and Athanasiadis, Dimitrios and Chen, Minjiang and McArthur, Stephen and Kockar, Ivana and Lu, Haowei and de Leon, Francisco (2021) A self-organizing multi-agent system for distributed voltage regulation. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 12 (5). pp. 4102-4112. ISSN 1949-3053 (https://doi.org/10.1109/TSG.2021.3070783)

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Abstract

This paper presents a distributed voltage regulation method based on multi-agent system control and network self-organization for a large distribution network. The network autonomously organizes itself into small subnetworks through the epsilon decomposition of the sensitivity matrix, and agents group themselves into these subnetworks with the communication links being autonomously determined. Each subnetwork controls its voltage by locating the closest local distributed generation and optimizing their outputs. This simplifies and reduces the size of the optimization problem and the interaction requirements. This approach also facilitates adaptive grouping of the network by self-reorganizing to maintain a stable state in response to time-varying network requirements and changes. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is validated through simulations on a model of a real heavily-meshed secondary distribution network. Simulation results and comparisons with other methods demonstrate the ability of the subnetworks to autonomously and independently regulate the voltage and to adapt to unpredictable network conditions over time, thereby enabling autonomous and flexible distribution networks.

ORCID iDs

Al Faiya, Badr, Athanasiadis, Dimitrios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1423-7020, Chen, Minjiang ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0814-9139, McArthur, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1312-8874, Kockar, Ivana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9246-1303, Lu, Haowei and de Leon, Francisco;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:75748
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    30 September 2021
    Published
    2 April 2021
    Published Online
    3 March 2021
    Accepted
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    Subjects:Technology > Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
    Department:Faculty of Engineering > Electronic and Electrical Engineering
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:11 Mar 2021 03:08
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 13:00
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/75748
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