Title
Automated Fault Location and Isolation in Distribution Grids With Distributed Control and Unreliable Communication
Abstract
This paper presents the analysis and simulation of the performance of fault location and isolation (FLI) in an automated power distribution feeder. This system is composed of two coupled networks: a power system consisting of a distribution feeder with multiple load buses, and an unreliable communication network of the distributed intelligent agents in the system, namely, the substation automation and fault protection units separating segments of the feeder. We provide a complete specification of a distributed algorithm for FLI and an exact characterization of the time from the occurrence of a fault to its location and isolation. Both apply to a distribution feeder with an arbitrary number of buses. These models are then refined into a hybrid simulation that combines three models executing in parallel: a power system model based on dc power flow, a distributed automation system model for the intelligent agents constructed using the IEC 61499 distributed automation standard, and an abstract communication network model that unreliably links the physically distributed agents. The results demonstrate the effect of communication network reliability at two levels of design abstraction, the correspondence of results at the two levels, and the use of a modern cosimulation framework to verify the performance of distributed smart grid automation algorithms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/TIE.2014.2387093
Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions  
Keywords
Field
DocType
iec standards,cooperative systems,distributed algorithms,fault location,fault tolerant computing,power distribution faults,power engineering computing,smart power grids,substation automation,telecommunication network reliability,dc power flow,iec 61499 standard,abstract communication network model,automated fault isolation,automated fault location,automated power distribution feeder,communication network reliability,distributed algorithm,distributed automation system model,distributed control,distributed intelligent agents,distributed smart grid automation algorithm,distribution grids,fault protection units,hybrid simulation,load buses,power system model,unreliable communication network,feeder automation,multiagent control,self-healing,communication networks,automation,smart grids
Intelligent agent,Telecommunications network,Process automation system,Power flow,Smart grid,Electric power system,Real-time computing,Automation,Distributed algorithm,Engineering,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
62
4
0278-0046
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.53
18
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Neelabh Kashyap150.53
Chen-Wei Yang28512.79
Seppo Sierla35414.59
Paul G. Flikkema4276.69