A conceptual power quality monitoring technique based on multi-agent systems

Abstract

In this paper, a concept for a power quality monitoring system based on an intelligent, adaptive, and reconfigurable multi-agent system (MAS) is presented. This architecture has the potential advantages of reduced bandwidth requirements, reduced computation time, and better extensibility over traditional client-server systems. One of the novel features of the proposed methodology is that by using the analytical hierarchy process (AHP), the MAS has the ability to reconfigure itself under failure conditions.