Agent based decentralized DC load flow computation

A decentralized paradigm has several advantages over centralized paradigm which offers quick, robust and self-reliable system operations. Hence, this paper proposes a novel approach towards decentralized load flow solution of power system. Agent based concept is used to realize the proposed framework which uses DC load flow calculations. A single Bus Agent (BA) is designed which incorporates two behaviours, i.e. gauss elimination behaviour and backward substitution behaviour. The agents communicate with neighbouring agents as per the designed behaviour and utilize the local knowledge to compute their own voltage angle without having global information of rest of the network. The proposed framework is designed in JAVA using JADE package and corresponding simulation is done on IEEE 30 bus system to show its feasibility, implementability and robustness.