Distributed control techniques in microgrids

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2901-2909

  Yazdanian, Mehrdad ^a   Mehrizi Sani, Ali ^a  

^a Washington State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed control; hierarchical control; microgrid; multiagent systems; smart grid

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; HIERARCHICAL CONTROL; MICRO GRID; SMART GRID;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84908274571     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2014.2337838     Document Type: Article

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