Balancing Decentralization for Restoration in Power Distribution Systems With Agents

Power distribution systems are subject to faults that may cause damage the grid and electric service interruptions. The outage impact can be attenuated by a restoration procedure reconfigures until faulted component repaired. Proposals for this usually either fully centralized or decentralized. In paper, hybrid approach (partially decentralized) problem based on multi-agent system (MAS) is proposed evaluated. Results show caution must taken when specifying level of decentralization achieved agent procedures devoted restoration, especially if power limited devices utilized achieve communication.