this work introduces the use of a mobile agent for the purpose of power quality assessment in systems with distributed control. The mobile agent introduced here leverages on the agentbased distributed control of the electrical loads of a power electronic distribution system. While the stationary agents control local loads autonomously and are capable of negotiations for reconfiguration purpose, they have to rely on external resources for certain types of more sophisticated evaluations of operating condition, such as power quality pollution. The authors have already considered the option of a stationary monitoring agent capable ofproviding these information and the option ofembedding additional algorithms in the load agents. In this work a new approach based on a mobile agent is investigated. The advantage of such solution consists primarily in its flexibility, in fact the mobile agent can be easily re-deployed to serve various purposes exploiting the distributed computational capability. routines when needed, without integrating these routines in the stationary agents. A very targeted application to power quality issues can be found in [14].The framework of this work is the control of power electronic systems, that is, power systems where power flow is fully controlled, in particular through converters feeding DC zones, [6], from the main three-phase AC distribution system. These systems are currently under consideration for the future all-electric ship of the US Navy. Furthermore, their successful implementation would greatly benefit the operation of terrestrial systems, such as microgrids and in the longer term, terrestrial power distribution systems in general.