Survey of multi-agent systems for microgrid control

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 45, Issue , 2015, Pages 192-203

  Kantamneni, Abhilash ^a   Brown, Laura E ^a   Parker, Gordon ^b   Weaver, Wayne W ^b  

^a Michigan Technological University   (United States)

^b Michigan Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed control; Microgrids; Multi agent systems; Power engineering

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; ENERGY RESOURCES; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; SURVEYS;

DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES; ENERGY SYSTEMS; MICRO GRID; MICROGRID CONTROL; POWER ENGINEERING; SINGLE-AGENT;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84941048507     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2015.07.005     Document Type: Short Survey

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