Abstract
In this paper, we propose a distributed coordination algorithm to solve an electric power dispatch problem. The objective function is the amount of costs of electric generations and power flows. The constraints include the supply-demand balances and the limitations of electric generations and power flows. The proposed algorithm is applied to a continuous time multi-agent system which manages a power network by a distributed manner. An agent with the algorithm is installed in each area on power network. Each agent only has knowledge of its area and can only feed back signals of its own and neighbors. Every agent computes the optimal solution of power dispatch in its area by using the local information, and the solution minimizes the global cost.
