An AI-based automatic power network topology processor

This paper describes a new power network topology processor which has been successfully used in two practical power system application programs. Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have been used and this provides several advantages. AI'S frame representation method is used to represent electric network configuration. This avoids manual numbering on a large amount of circuit breaker terminals/circuits. Rule-based method has been adopted for substation's bus configuration analysis instead of the search method. This makes the analysis simple and adaptable to new types of bus configurations just by adding corresponding rules. AI's search techniques have been applied for network graph search making the search algorithm simpler and easier to be programmed. Some results from the application of the proposed topology processor are also included in the paper. (C) 2002 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.