Smart Microgrids bring numerous challenges, including how to leverage the potential benefits of renewable energy sources while maintaining acceptable levels of reliability in the power infrastructure. One way to tackle this challenging problem is to use intelligent storage systems (batteries and supercapacitors). Charging and discharging them at the proper time by exploiting the variablity of t...

The amount of generation of renewable energy sources in the European grid has strongly increased. In 2005 eight times more energy was generated by RES compared to 1990. In the future the EU wants to promote the integration of RES. Mainly the use of wind energy and biomass should be expanded. As to date, RES were connected to the distribution grid usually with a ”fit and forget” approach. Due to...

this paper discusses the control of flexible microgrids, consisting of a redox flow batteries (rfb) and a new power conditioning system (pcs) for the rfb. considering the importance of energy storage, this study is essential in power systems that are developed cautiously. rfb is connected to power system by a dc/dc or dc/ac converter to produce a dc voltage. it is very important that this conve...

This paper presents an overview of our body of work on the application of smart control techniques for the control and management of microgrids (MGs). The main focus here is on the application of distributed multi-agent system (MAS) theory in multi-objective (MO) power management of MGs to find the Pareto-front of the MO power management problem. In addition, the paper presents the application ...

Hybrid microgrids which consist of AC and DC subgrids interconnected by power electronic interfaces have attracted much attention in recent years. They not only can integrate the main benefits of both AC and DC configurations, but also can reduce the number of converters in connection of Distributed Generation (DG) sources, Energy Storage Systems (ESSs) and loads to AC or DC buses. In this pape...

Grid interconnected multi-microgrids provides potential benefits to the consumers, where microgrids (MGs) equipped with distributed generators (DGs), energy storage systems (ESSs), and diesel generators. However, intermittency of DGs, high cost ESSs, depleting fossil fuels are major challenges for economic operation multi-microgrids. One way address these is develop an management strategy (EMS)...

This article presents an overview on Ipseity, an open-source rich-client platform developed in C++ with the Qt framework. Ipseity facilitates the synthesis of artificial cognitive systems in multi-agent systems. The current version of the platform includes a set of plugins based on the classical reinforcement learning techniques like Q-Learning and Sarsa. Ipseity is targeted at a broad range of...