Hardware-in-the-loop testbed based on hybrid real time simulator

Abstract

The introduction of Smart Grid concept contributes to the development of multiple new algorithms and equipment for their control. The best of currently available tools for this is a simulation. Its advanced application is a technology of hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing that allows providing fast prototyping and getting ready to use products in a short time. However the growing complexity of new concepts of control systems demands the improvement of HIL performance in order to make it easier and also allow a better analysis of the impact of those systems onto conventional grid. The approach and tools that allow looping not only the tested controller and a simulator but also a simulator and power system monitoring system in real time are described in this paper.Index Terms-closed loop systems, hybrid integrated circuits, real time systems.

Hybrid real-time simulator of power system for advanced simulation of the FACTS and HVDC system based on voltage source converter

“…The given concept is realized as a specialized software and hardware hybrid complex -Hybrid Real-Time Simulator (HRTSim) of EPS [14,15].…”

Hard- and software of real time simulation tools of Electric Power System for adequate modeling power semiconductors in voltage source convertor based HVDC and FACTS

“…Models of automatic control and relay protection systems are implemented via a microprocessor units (MPU), containing a central processing unit (CPU) and functionally oriented peripheral processors (PP), as well as Server depending on the required composition of the input signals and the speed of algorithms execution. The given concept is realized as a specialized software and hardware hybrid complex -Hybrid Real-Time Simulator (HRTSim) of EPS [5,6].…”

“…Due to the impossibility of making field experiments and tests of these devices in real power systems, the main tools for solving these problems are modeling and simulation. The listed tasks form the following specific requirements for simulation systems necessary for their solution: Numerical investigations of heat and mass transfer processes at the ignition of solid [1][2][3][4], liquid [5][6][7][8] condensed substances and polymer materials [9, 10] by local energy source with limited power consumption (metallic and non-metallic particles, wires, cores, concentrate radiation flows and etc.) was held in recent years.…”

The Use of System in the Loop, Hardware in the Loop, and Co-modeling of Cyber-Physical Systems in Developing and Evaluating New Smart Grid Solutions

“…New generation testbeds are designed and implemented using actual power system control equipment interfaced with actual grid and/or simulation software to allow replication of full-scale cyber-physical system performance at a large laboratory scale. Several papers addressed the development of the power system cyber-physical testbeds [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. In [5][6][7][8][9], concept of end to end testing using the system in-the-loop (SIL) testbed is presented.…”

“…In [5][6][7][8][9], concept of end to end testing using the system in-the-loop (SIL) testbed is presented. In [10][11][12][13][14][15], hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing platforms for different studies including distributed generation and power electronic interfaces are discussed. Examples of cyber-physical testbeds to study different concerns related to power system cyberattacks can be found in [16,17].…”