A practical approach to consensus based control of multi-agent systems

Consensus based control of multi-agent systems has a widespread applications in many fields. For example, autonomous computing, wireless sensor networks and robotics etc. It has several interesting results for clustering in data mining and Economics dispatch problem in distributed electric generation. A lot of theoretical analysis have been applied for such problems using consensus approach but still a practical approach to consensus based control of multi-agent systems is needed. This paper presents theoretical as well as practical systems for smart grid using consensus algorithm. Economic dispatch problem which is the major issue in smart grid is resolved through distributed consensus approach. For experimental purpose, a framework of Arduino IDE is selected for analysis, communication and simulation. Each Arduino board is an intelligent and autonomous agent that is in communication with all its neighbour's nodes for adapting changes in demand and generation of power in Smart grid. Moreover, a dynamically changing behaviour of the systems is also in focus of this paper.