電力系統事故復旧問題へのマルチエージェント技術の適用

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This paper proposes a multi-agent system to power system restoration problems. Multi-agent is a new paradigm for developing software applications. Coordinating the behavior of autonomous agents is a key issue in agent oriented programming techniques today. Recently, agents are being used in a increasingly wide variety of applications, ranging from comparatively small systems such as E-mail filters to large, open, complex systems such as air traffic control. Though some agent frameworks have been proposed in the power system field, the number of studies is limited.
In this paper, we developed a power system restoration application by multi-agent architecture. Our multi-agent system has the following characteristics: (1) The system consists of a single facilitator agent, and one or more bus-agents which are elements of power system network. (2) The facilitator agent is developed to act as a manager for the process by using the singleton design pattern. The bus-agents have simple negotiation strategies. (3) Message object is developed to communicate between the agents using KQML-like object. The proposed approach is applied to a simple network, and the results show that the multi-agent system is an efficient and robust approach for solving power system restoration problems.