%0 Conference Proceedings %T Testbed Application of Energy Agents %+ Universität Duisburg-Essen = University of Duisburg-Essen [Essen] %A Loose, Nils %A Derksen, Christian %A Unland, Rainer %Z Part 2: SmartER Europe 2017 %< avec comité de lecture %( IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology %B 3rd and 4th International Conference on Smart Energy Research (SmartER Europe 2016 and 2017) %C Essen, Germany %Y Christian Derksen %Y Christoph Weber %I Springer International Publishing %3 Smart Energy Research. At the Crossroads of Engineering, Economics, and Computer Science %V AICT-495 %P 147-160 %8 2017-02-09 %D 2017 %R 10.1007/978-3-319-66553-5_11 %K Testbed agents %K Energy agents %K Hybrid energy systems %K Smart grid %Z Computer Science [cs]Conference papers %X This work introduces the concept of testbed application of energy agents, which is the intermediate step between testing agents in pure simulation environment and deploying them in real energy distribution systems. In the testbed application case, the energy agent is taken from the simulation environment and deployed to dedicated hardware, where it controls a simulated or real technical system, while still working against a simulated environment. Compared to a pure simulation environment, this application case raises a number of new challenges, mainly resulting from inter-platform agent communication. In this work these challenges are discussed and an implementation handling them is presented and evaluated. %G English %Z TC 12 %2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01691196/document %2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01691196/file/450780_1_En_11_Chapter.pdf %L hal-01691196 %U https://inria.hal.science/hal-01691196 %~ IFIP-LNCS %~ IFIP %~ IFIP-AICT %~ IFIP-TC %~ IFIP-TC12 %~ IFIP-AICT-495 %~ IFIP-SMARTER