A self-organizing architecture for decentralized smart microgrids synchronization, control, and monitoring

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 289-298

  Vaccaro, Alfredo ^a   Loia, Vincenzo ^b   Formato, Giuseppina ^b   Wall, Peter ^c   Terzija, Vladimir ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decentralized control; multi agent systems; smart microgrids

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA HANDLING; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION;

COMPLEX CONTROL; COMPUTING FRAMEWORKS; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; FUNDAMENTAL CONTROL; MICRO GRID; SELF ORGANIZING AGENTS; SMART MICRO GRIDS; TEST NETWORK;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84922947539     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2014.2342876     Document Type: Article

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