Multi agent systems based distributed control and automation of micro-grid using MACSimJX

The objective of this paper is to develop a model for distributed automation of micro-grid using Multi Agent System(MAS) for the advanced control and distributed energy management of a solar micro-grid. A grid connected solar micro-grid model, which contains two solar Photo Voltaic (PV) systems, one in department and other in hostel, each contains a local consumer, a solar PV system and a battery, is modelled in Simulink. Due to unstable nature of MATLAB, when dealing with multi threading environment, MAS operating in Java Agent Development Environment(JADE) is linked with the MATLAB using a middleware, Multi Agent Control using Simulink with Jade extension (MACSimJX). MACSimJX allows the solar micro-grid system designed with MATLAB to be controlled by solar micro-grid agents for realizing the advantages of decentralized approach of MAS. All the agents of solar micro-grid components are programmed in JADE and the results of the coordinated action of these agents are sent to the environment for distributed control and automation of the hardware. JADE leverages the advantage of MAS by its inherent features and hence the operational efficiency of solar micro-grid is further increased. Also the power exchange between main grid and solar micro-grid is optimized by effetive demand side management. Simulation is designed to evaluate impact of autonamous operations of agents.