Review of state-of-the-art solver solutions for HIL simulation of power systems, power electronic and motor drives

Dufour, Christian; Cense, Sebastien; Jalili-Marandi, Vahid; Bélanger, Jean

doi:10.1109/epe.2013.6632001

Cited by 27 publications

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“…There is no communication link between VSCs, the controller for the real inverter is implemented in MATLAB/Simulink and compiled for DS1005 dSpace target hardware. The RT VSCs controllers are implemented in MATLAB/Simulink as well, and the corresponding compilation is sent via TCP/IP to the RT-LAB platform [30]- [32]. In this test, the output currents magnitudes are fixed to 7A peak to easily show the performance of the proposed technique.…”

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confidence: 99%

Decentralized Control of Voltage Source Converters in Microgrids Based on the Application of Instantaneous Power Theory

Ovalle

Ramos

Bacha

et al. 2015

IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.

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In this paper, a new strategy to control microgrids highly penetrated by Voltage Source Converters (VSC) is proposed. The strategy is based on instantaneous measurements and calculations of voltages and currents and the application of Instantaneous Power Theory. This approach employs each VSC along with an LC filter as a current source. The grid parameters are not known to the controller, only the filter inductance and capacitance. The approach characterizes a theoretical methodology to define a grid status parameter that provides multiple alternatives to operate the VSC autonomously. Besides, one of those alternatives is sharing load among VSCs by regulating voltage of the local connection bus. This grid status parameter is an external voltage contribution vector defined by the operation of the other VSCs in the microgrid. Because of the definition of this parameter, frequency manipulation is not employed as a communication link between VSCs, avoiding perturbation to the grid stability. The approach provides an approximation of the equivalent impedance of the system seen from the filter output. The load sharing scheme under the proposed strategy is fully described. An experimental validation is performed in order to test the proposed approach for load sharing between three VSCs and the inclusion of nonlinear load.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decentralized Control of Voltage Source Converters in Microgrids Based on the Application of Instantaneous Power Theory

Ovalle

Ramos

Bacha

et al. 2015

IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.

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“…Importantly, some simulators can be expanded by communicating two or more units. One can also consider hardware technology as a benchmark (Dufour et al 2013): some simulators use multi-core CPUs and other FPGAs. Real-time simulators for power systems are commonly compared in terms of AC nodes, considering that these nodes will be resolved within a sufficient time frame (usually 50 µs).…”

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Real-Time Simulators Applied to Brazilian Power Systems: A Review

Oliveira

García

et al. 2020

J Control Autom Electr Syst

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This paper presents a review on real-time simulators and their use applied to power systems in Brazil. The review comprises most of the current research made in institutions/enterprises that own real-time simulators as well as the application trends of related technologies, considering both conferences and journals published papers. It is observed that several Brazilian universities have simulators in real-time and that the publications in journals have been increased, which shows that the learning curve of the Brazilian research institutions has led to an improvement in the quality of the publications. It is also important to emphasize that the analysis of real systems in most publications indicates a trend and a demand for studies with simulators in real time, to solve problems of companies of the electric sector. Related with works that use real systems in their simulations, several publications were generated in the context of R&D projects. This shows that real-time simulators are very relevant tools for studies on power systems of companies in the electricity sector, aligning scientific research and the provision of highly specialized services.

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“…FPGA is considered as the best candidate for implementing RTDS, due to its parallel processing hardware structure, which allows implementing different algorithms with reducing the sequencing of operation comparing with CPUs implementation. In addition, FPGA-RTDS offers more specifications, which required for accurate real time simulation, such as lower I/O latency, higher frequency bandwidth and lower sampling rate below 1 µs typically [25,26]. Reference [24] utilized an FPGA-RTDS as a part of smart replacement real-time hardware-in-the-loop simulation platform.…”

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FPGA Eco Unit Commitment Based Gravitational Search Algorithm Integrating Plug-in Electric Vehicles

et al. 2018

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Smart grid architecture is one of the difficult constructions in electrical power systems. The main feature is divided into three layers; the first layer is the power system level and operation, the second layer is the sensor and the communication devices, which collect the data, and the third layer is the microprocessor or the machine, which controls the whole operation. This hierarchy is working from the third layer towards first layer and vice versa. This paper introduces an eco unit commitment study, that scheduling both conventional power plants (three IEEE) thermal plants) as a dispatchable distributed generators, with renewable energy resources (wind, solar) as a stochastic distributed generating units; and plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs), which can be contributed either loads or generators relied on the charging timetable in a trustworthy unit commitment. The target of unit commitment study is to minimize the combined eco costs by integrating more augmented clean and renewable energy resource with the help of field programming gate array (FPGA) layer installation. A meta-heuristic algorithm, such as the Gravitational Search Algorithm (GSA), proves its accuracy and efficiency in reducing the incorporated cost function implicating costs of CO2 emission by optimally integrating and scheduling stochastic resources and charging and discharging processes of PEVs with conventional resources power plants. The results obtained from GSA are compared with a conventional numerical technique, such as the Dynamic Programming (DP) algorithm. The feasibility to implement GSA on an appropriate hardware platform, such as FPGA, is also discussed.

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Review of state-of-the-art solver solutions for HIL simulation of power systems, power electronic and motor drives

Cited by 27 publications

References 7 publications

Decentralized Control of Voltage Source Converters in Microgrids Based on the Application of Instantaneous Power Theory

Decentralized Control of Voltage Source Converters in Microgrids Based on the Application of Instantaneous Power Theory

Real-Time Simulators Applied to Brazilian Power Systems: A Review

FPGA Eco Unit Commitment Based Gravitational Search Algorithm Integrating Plug-in Electric Vehicles

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