This project consists of different software parts for Demand Response (DR) Aggregators or Virtual Power Plant (VPP) Operators to utilize a Multi-agent System (MAS) by realizing DR mechanisms of the German DR markets.
Additional documentation for this project will be released this year (2021).
The following figure shows the different parts of the project and how to use them.
The Java projects are Spring-Boot applications. The Startup.java is the main type of each application.
The core of the application is the JADE_VPP project, which can also be used as a standalone version to test the agent system. For this the desired agents must be instantiated in the Startup.java in the platform (at least one VPP agent). Then the Spring-Boot project can be started (Main Type: mas.JADE_VPP.Startup). The platform starts sending data directly to the frontend (Node-RED Flow: VPP-VPP-Agent (A)), so this should already be active. Dedicated TU agents that connect to frontends D and E can also be generated from this program. For this, the ContainerManager.java must then be adapted and the Main Container specified.
The TU_Simulation can be used to run an external agent container. Necessary settings for the agent composition can be done in the Startup.java and the ContainerManager.java, to which the TUs should connect, must be configured in the ContainerManager.java (IP address). This program is modified, so that data for the TU agents are not exchanged over the frontend (TU side), but they are pre-generated.
The Simlation application can be used to realize a simulation scenario via the VPP frontend. Here the simulation can be adapted in the startup.java and the Node-RED frontend must be prepared accordingly.
This project is especially created for DR Aggregators or VPP Operators that realize DR mechanisms (of the German market). Otherwise, anyone who is interested in MAS or is active in the research field is welcome to use this software.
To help DR Aggregators use MAS to improve their existing VPPs.
More to come at the end of 2021
