Distribution power flow management utilizing an online constraint programming method

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 798-805

  Dolan, Michael J ^a   Davidson, Euan M ^a   Ault, Graham W ^a   Bell, Keith R W ^a   McArthur, Stephen D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active network management; distributed control; distributed generation; smart grids

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES; CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL; CONSTRAINT PROGRAMMING; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTION POWER FLOW; MEDIUM-VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS; MULTIPLE DISTRIBUTED GENERATORS; SMART GRID;

ACTIVE NETWORKS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CONSTRAINT THEORY; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE TESTING;

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION;

EID: 84878333536     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2012.2234148     Document Type: Article

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