Microgrids resiliency using multi-agent system communication technology

Abstract

Nowadays, communication and data exchange are key factors for the resilience improvement of a microgrid (MG) against natural disasters and play a pivotal role in the energy management (EM) fields .Hence ,the main objective of this project is to improve MGresilience and control its energy management system (EMS) using a multi-agent system (MAS) communication approach. First, the proposed work optimizes the load power consumption inside one MG based on the available power resources; then, the strategy is expanded to optimize power usage to improve resilience when dealing with many MG systems. The simulation of the multi-microgrid (MMG) system is done using both MATLAB Simulink and Cisco packet tracers. Various scenarios are simulated to evaluate the performance of the MAS in maintaining flexibility, stability, an dresiliency. The Cisco packet traceris used to model the communication network to ensure a robust and secure data exchange between agents. The results demonstrate that the integration of MAS communication technology significantly improves MGs’ power management.