Smart power router: A flexible agent-based converter interface in active distribution networks

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 487-495

  Nguyen, Phuong H ^a   Kling, Wil L ^a   Ribeiro, Paulo F ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Active distribution network; multiagent system; smart grid

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED; AUTONOMOUS CONTROL; CONTROL FUNCTIONS; CONVERTER INTERFACES; DISTRIBUTION NETWORK; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NETWORK AREA; POWER DELIVERY SYSTEMS; POWER FLOWS; SMART GRID; SMART POWER;

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; EXPERIMENTS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 80052043589     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2011.2159405     Document Type: Article

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