A Survey of Agent Technology Applications to Power Distribution Engineering

Document from the year 2013 in the subject Engineering - Power Engineering, grade: Highest grade, University of Porto, language: English, abstract: Agent technology has been enlightened as the correct vector to promote decentralization, autonomous operation and active management activities in power distribution system operation. As a matter of fact, an adequate agent-based modeling can produce flexible, extensible, and robust systems, which are features of utmost importance to a smooth modernization of power systems. Moreover, the agent paradigm can provide a well-established notion of intelligence/smartness to be progressively applied along with the modernization of power distribution systems.Hence, in this document, an extensive survey about the applications of agent technology to power engineering is provided, aiming at helping engineers and academia to identify gaps in the state of the art to be explored in the future. This survey is presented and discussed highlighting the applications more directly related to the scope of the power distribution systems.

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Prof. Diego Issicaba received the B.S and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Santa Catarina, Brazil, in 2006 and 2008, respectively. In 2013, he received the Ph.D. degree on Sustainable Energy Systems, under the MIT Doctoral Program, from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), Portugal. From 2009 to 2013, he worked as a researcher for the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto (INESC Porto), Portugal. He is currently with the Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPR), Brazil, where he is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. He is also an Area Leader at INESC P&D Brasil. His research interests involve smart grids, mutiagent systems, distributed generation and distribution systems.