International audienceThis paper illustrates how the multi-agent approach, or paradigm, can help in the modeling and the simulation of smart grids in the context ofMS4SG (a joint project between LORIA-INRIA and EDF R&D). Smart grids simulations need to integrate together pre-existing and heterogeneous models and their simulation software; for example modeling tools of the power grids, of telecommunication networks, and of the information and decision systems. This paper describes the use of MECSYCO as a valid approach to integrate these heterogeneous models in a multi-agent smart grid simulation platform. Several use cases show the ability of MECSYCO to effectively take into account the requirements of smart grids simulation in MS4SG
DACCOSIM is a multi-simulation environment for continuous time systems, relying on FMI standard, making easy the design of a multi-simulation graph, and specially developed for multi-core PC clusters, in order to achieve speedup and size up. However, the distribution of the simulation graph remains complex and is still the responsibility of the simulation developer. This paper introduces DACCOSIM parallel and distributed architecture, and our strategies to achieve efficient multi-simulation graph distribution on multi-core clusters. Some performance experiments on two clusters, running up to 81 simulation components (FMU) and using up to 16 multi-core computing nodes, are shown. Performances measured on our faster cluster exhibit a good scalability, but some limitations of current DACCOSIM implementation are discussed.
The smart power grids will extensively rely on network control to increase efficiency, reliability, and safety. In this context, the simulation of such complex systems is becoming an essential tool to support the development of Smart Grids. This paper presents an overview of the EDF R&D Modelica library GridSysPro (GSP), which provides electrical components adapted to Smart Grid simulation; and a multi-agent approach for supporting the coinitialization process of complex network of FMUs.
In recent years, co-simulation has become an increasingly industrial tool to simulate Cyber Physical Systems including multi-physics and control, like smart electric grids, since it allows to involve different modeling tools within the same temporal simulation. The challenge now is to integrate in a single calculation scheme very numerous and intensely inter-connected models, and to do it without any loss in model accuracy. This will avoid neglecting fine phenomena or moving away from the basic principle of equation-based modeling.Offering both a large number of computing cores and a large amount of distributed memory, multi-core PC clusters can address this key issue in order to achieve huge multi-simulations in acceptable time. This paper introduces all our efforts to parallelize and distribute our co-simulation environment based on the FMI for CoSimulation standard (FMI-CS). At the end of 2016 we succeeded to scale beyond 1000 FMUs and 1000 computing cores on different PC-clusters, including the most recent HPC Infiniband-cluster available at EDF.
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