Publication detail

Automatic Power Load Balancing using a Multi-Agent System

PRÝMEK, M. BAXANT, P. HORÁK, A.

Original Title

Automatic Power Load Balancing using a Multi-Agent System

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

Regulation of electrical power generation according to the actual power consumption is a non-trivial problem. At present the solution is situated mainly on the source side of the network. With the increasing number of small and dislocated power generators (wind power plants, small hydro-electric plants etc.), the problem gets complicated and demands a new approach. In this paper, we present an experimental implementation of the regulation on the consumer side of the network, which is based on regulation of power consumption of a group of computers located in a small local power network. The regulation is controlled by the Rice multi-agent system whose primary purpose is a simulation of power flow in power distribution networks. By connecting specific agents in the system to physical devices in a power network we can simulate intelligent reactions of the network to different external events which influence the local network and vice versa. The experiment described in the paper deals both with simulated accident events (black-out) and planned events (planned consumption reduction).

Keywords

Multi-Agent System; Power Load Balancing

Authors

PRÝMEK, M.; BAXANT, P.; HORÁK, A.

RIV year

2010

Released

4. 5. 2010

Publisher

Brno University of Technology, Department of Electrical Power Engineering

Location

Brno, Czech republic

ISBN

978-80-214-4094-4

Book

Proceedings of the 11th International Scientific Conference Electric Power Engineering 2010

Pages from

93

Pages to

97

Pages count

5

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT35229,
  author="Miroslav {Prýmek} and Petr {Baxant} and Aleš {Horák}",
  title="Automatic Power Load Balancing using a Multi-Agent System",
  booktitle="Proceedings of the 11th International Scientific Conference Electric Power Engineering 2010",
  year="2010",
  pages="93--97",
  publisher="Brno University of Technology, Department of Electrical Power Engineering",
  address="Brno, Czech republic",
  isbn="978-80-214-4094-4"
}