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PhD project
by Arshad Saleem
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PhD defence
A copy of the PhD thesis is available for reading at the department.
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Project period
March 2007 to March 2010
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Abstract
Distributed generation, decentralized and local control, self organization and autonomy are evident trends of today's electric power systems focusing on innovative control architectures such as microgrids, virtual power plants, cell based systems, plug-in electric vehicles and real time markets. Situation in Denmark is even more interesting; with a current 20% penetration of wind energy it is moving towards an ambitious goal of 50% penetration by the year 2050. Realization of these concepts requires that power systems should be of distributed nature - consisting of autonomous components and subsystems that are able to coordinate, communicate, cooperate, adapt to emerging situations and self organize in an intelligent way.
At the same time, rapid development in information and communication technologies (ICT) has brought new opportunities and elucidations. New technologies and standards have been developed particularly in the area of communication and distributed control. Electric power industry is eager to explore, evaluate and adopt these new advancements in ICT for improving its current practices of automation and control in order to cope with above mentioned challenges.
This project focuses on making a systematic evaluation of using intelligent software agent technology for control of electric power systems with high penetration of distributed generation. The project is based upon a requirement driven approach. It starts with investigating new trends and challenges in electric power systems brought by introduction of distributed generation (DG). It reviews innovative control architectures and precisely identifies the requirements in these control architectures which are interesting for application of the intelligent agents and maps them to the capabilities of the intelligent agents. It suggests a multiagent based flexible control architecture (subgrid control) suitable for the implementation of the innovative control concepts. This subgrid control architecture is tested on a novel distributed software platform which has been developed to design, test and evaluate distributed control strategies. The results have been discussed from case studies of multiagent based distributed control scenarios in electric power systems.
Links
• Kunstig intelligens overtager styringen i elforsyningen
- Electra august 2007
2010-11 asa
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