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A Novel Coordination Strategy for Multi-Agent Control Using Overlapping Subnetworks with Application to Power Systems

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Power networks [15,16,24] are one of the corner stones of our modern society. The dynamics of a power network as a whole are the result of the interactions between themillions of individual components.Conventionally, the power in power networks is generated using several large power generators. This power is then transported through the transmission and distribution network to the location where it is consumed, e.g., households and industry. Power flows are then relatively predictable, and the number of control agents is relatively low. Due to the ongoing deregulation in the power generation and distribution sector in the US and Europe, the number of players involved in the generation and distribution of power has increased R. significantly. The number of source nodes of the power distribution network is increasing even further as also large-scale industrial suppliers and small-scale individual households start to feed electricity into the network [13].

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  1. Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 2, 2628 CD, Delft, The Netherlands

    R. R. Negenborn & B. De Schutter

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    G. Hug-Glanzmann

  3. Department of Marine and Transport Technology, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 2, 2628 CD, Delft, The Netherlands

    B. De Schutter

  4. Power Systems Laboratory, ETH Zürich, Physikstrasse 3, 8092, Zürich, Switzerland

    G. Andersson

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Negenborn, R.R., Hug-Glanzmann, G., De Schutter, B., Andersson, G. (2010). A Novel Coordination Strategy for Multi-Agent Control Using Overlapping Subnetworks with Application to Power Systems. In: Mohammadpour, J., Grigoriadis, K. (eds) Efficient Modeling and Control of Large-Scale Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5757-3_10

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