Issicaba, D.Gil, N. J.Lopes, J. A. Peças2025-12-162025-12-162010-10D. Issicaba, N. J. Gil and J. A. P. Lopes, "Islanding operation of active distribution grids using an agent-based architecture," 2010 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT Europe), Gothenburg, Sweden, 2010, pp. 1-8, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEUROPE.2010.5639007.978-1-4244-8508-6978-1-4244-8509-32165-4816http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/15101Conference date - 11 October 2010 - 13 October 2010; Conference code - 83099EISBN - 978-1-4244-8509-3This paper presents a decentralized architecture for the islanding operation of distribution grids with large volume of distributed generation. This architecture involves the definition of network blocks which share the responsibility of frequency control. The control block abstraction was particularly designed to support the transition from regular grids to smart grids. In addition, the control schemes were developed using an agentbased paradigm. Hence, an agent-based simulation platform was implemented using libraries from the Java Agent Development Framework (JADE). The control schemes were evaluated using a test system with different sorts of distributed energy resources and modeled in the EUROSTAG environment. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the control architecture when different failure events are applied to the test system.engSmart GridSelf-Healing GridsMulti-agent Systemsconference paper10.1109/isgteurope.2010.56390072165-4824