An open platform for rapid-prototyping protection and control schemes with IEC 61850

Abstract

Communications is becoming increasingly important to the operation of protection and control schemes. Although offering many benefits, using standards-based communications, particularly IEC 61850, in the course of the research and development of novel schemes can be complex. This paper describes an open source platform which enables the rapid-prototyping of communications-enhanced schemes. The platform automatically generates the data model and communications code required for an Intelligent Electronic Device (IED) to implement publisher-subscriber Generic Object-Oriented Substation Event (GOOSE) and Sampled Value (SV) messaging. The generated code is tailored to a particular System Configuration Description (SCD) file, and is therefore extremely efficient at run-time. It is shown how a model-centric tool, such as the open source Eclipse Modeling Framework, can be used to manage the complexity of the IEC 61850 standard, by providing a framework for validating SCD files and by automating parts of the code generation process. The flexibility and convenience of the platform is demonstrated through a prototype of a real-time, fast-acting load shedding scheme for a low-voltage microgrid network. The platform is the first open source implementation of IEC 61850 which is suitable for real-time applications such as protection, and is therefore readily available for research and education.

On automatic generation of IEC61850/IEC61499 substation automation systems enabled by ontology

“…There are existing research works which apply automatic generation to create IEC61850 based control systems [10,11]. The source of generation is commonly the IEC61850 System Configuration Language (SCL).…”

“…In [10], an open platform for rapid-prototyping protection and control schemes with IEC61850 is proposed. One part of the open platform is to automatically generate low-level communication configurations and the logical node information model.…”

“…Lower-level communication includes GOOSE messaging (Configuration of GOOSE datasets) and Sampled-Value (SV) messaging. In [10], the SCD file is used as the source of the automatic generation process. The target code is generated in the C programming language.…”

Translating Proprietary Protection Setting Data into Standardised IEC 61850 Format for Protection Setting Validation

“…1, the XML schema provided by IEC 61850-6 is used by the open source software Eclipse Modelling Framework (EMF) [14] to automatically generate a Java class form of the SCL model. A similar application of EMF is described in [15]. The mapping results from the IEC 61850 Translator are used by the SCL Creator to create an instance of the model.…”

Intelligent Electronic Device Functionality and Interfacing: An Experimental Examination of Smart Grid

“…to provide dedicated bandwidth and to minimize jitter time division multiplexing (TDM) has been used. when multiple services like data acquisition (SCADA), supervisory control, voice telephony, video surveillance, and phasor evolution of unit data TDM systems make inefficient use of available bandwidth and they act as inherently inflexible [8] To enable advanced power automation the intelligent electronic device (IED) added to industrial control systems (ICS).…”