Joy Vasantha RANI SP, Indhumathi CHELLASWAMY

Automatic fault isolation and restoration of distribution system using JADE based Multi-Agents

This paper proposes a solution for automatic service restoration along with automatic fault location andisolation of the faulty sections in feeder in a power distribution system. A Java agent development environment-basedmultiagent system (MAS) is proposed to solve the problem of automatic service restoration in smart grid distributionsystems. The agent-based solution development is discussed in detail and the MAS application to solve power restorationproblem is elaborated in this paper. A study is done on a modified IEEE 33 bus system and the solution is implementedin the Velachery substation of the Tamilnadu electricity board. The results prove that fast and effective fault location,isolation and service restoration is achieved using the proposed solution.

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