Title
Cosimulation Environment for Event-Driven Distributed Controls of Smart Grid
Abstract
This paper proposes a cosimulation environment for “hardware in the loop” or “software in the loop” validation of distributed controls in a Smart Grid. The controls are designed using model-driven engineering with the IEC 61499 Function Block architecture. These are connected with plant models, for example, in Matlab/Simulink, through communication channels such as UDP or TCP sockets. This solution enables multi-closed-loop plant-controller simulation. The communication between plant and controller is event-driven. In order to perform a realistic simulation, the proposed solution takes into account computation and communication delays on the controller side in Function Blocks and compensates model time on the plant side in Matlab model accordingly. Causality and accuracy of the method have been formally addressed. This approach has been tested and demonstrated with several Smart Grid-related examples.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/TII.2013.2256791
IEEE Trans. Industrial Informatics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
multiclosed-loop plant-controller simulation,Hardware in the Loop (HiL),Smart Grid,software in the loop,model-driven engineering,control engineering computing,distributed control,Matlab Simulink,UDP sockets,delays,Function blocks (FBs),TCP sockets,transport protocols,Software in the Loop (SiL),simulation,hardware in the loop,power engineering computing,smart power grids,communication delays,digital simulation,event-driven distributed controls,smart grid,IEC 61499 function block architecture,cosimulation environment,MATLAB-Simulink,IEC 61499,closed loop systems,IEC standards
Journal
9
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
1551-3203
23
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.37
12
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chia-Han Yang1787.07
Gulnara Zhabelova211810.57
Chen-Wei Yang38512.79
Valeriy Vyatkin41047152.80