Integrated multi-agent testbed for decentralized control of active distribution networks

Saleem, Arshad; Honeth, Nicholas; Wu, Yiming; Nordström, Lars

doi:10.1109/pesmg.2013.6672479

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“…Various testbeds or co-simulation frameworks [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [11], [12] are proposed for control of electric grids. We discuss and compare our proposed testbed with the existing ones, on three different axes: (1) can we easily and accurately study the effect of communication networks on control systems, (2) can we run the control software without requiring the modeling of control systems or modifications to the code, and (3) are they scalable, portable, and distributable.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To study the effect of communication network on control systems, [9] simulates the communication network with OPNET Modeler, whereas in [6], the authors model the low-level network contingencies, e.g., delayed, disordered, dropped, and distorted information flows. T-RECS, on the contrary, emulates the communication network using Mininet.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…T-RECS provides software containers to run the real control agents without requiring any modifications to them, whereas other testbeds require either modeling of agents [5], [6], [7], [8] or the development of agent software with specific frameworks such as JADE [9]. Testbeds in [5], [11], [12] use physical computing and/or communication infrastructure.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…T-RECS uses software containers to run each software agent in a virtual environment. Not having to change the control software improves the usability of T-RECS, compared to existing solutions [5], [6], [7], [8], [9]. Furthermore, the virtual environment can be used to inject faults such as crash of a controller or to study effects of software non-idealities on the control performance.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…packets are exchanged using TCP/IP networking, as opposed to simulation of the communication network done by existing testbeds [6], [9]. This approach enables T-RECS to recreate a wide-range of real-world scenarios by choosing different communication bandwidths, losses and delays.…”

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T-RECS: A software testbed for multi-agent real-time control of electric grids

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Mohiuddin

Saab

et al. 2017

2017 22nd IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)

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Abstract-Multiple software agents can be used to perform the real-time control of electrical grids. The control performance of such solutions is influenced by software non-idealities such as crashes and delays of the software agents, and message losses and delays due to the underlying communication network. To study the effect of these non-idealities on control systems, we present an open-source software testbed, named T-RECS. It uses software containers to test existing software without modification. The communication network among the software containers is emulated using Mininet framework, which allows for real packets being exchanged. The electric resources in the grid are simulated using state-of-the-art models, whereas the grid itself is modeled in the phasor domain. As control agents are run as is and message exchanges are emulated, T-RECS accurately captures the realworld properties of the control framework. We demonstrate the working of T-RECS with the Commelec control framework and show the effect of network non-idealities on the control performance. We make a beta version available.

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