VPNET: A co-simulation framework for analyzing communication channel effects on power systems

Li, W.; Monti, Antonello; Luo, Min; Dougal, Roger A.

doi:10.1109/ests.2011.5770857

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“…This heterogeneity of simulation mechanisms offers additional challenges in time synchronization problem. Some later works [7][8][9][10][11] as well as our work adopted similar architectures as EPOCHS. Yet, there exists significant differences in the selection of simulators and application focuses.…”

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The development of a smart grid co-simulation platform and case study on Vehicle-to-Grid voltage support application

Shum

Lau

Lam

et al. 2013

2013 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)

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A reliable and adequate communication network is crucial for smart grid applications. It is important to evaluate the performance of network infrastructure with respect to the diverse requirements imposed by various smart grid applications to ensure system reliability. Due to the complex dynamics involving communication and electrical systems, analytical study on smart grid faces challenges. As a result, comprehensive simulation platforms are needed for the study of interdependency between the heterogeneous systems. In this paper, we discuss the design of our smart grid co-simulation platform which combines power system simulator PSCAD/EMTDC with network simulator OPNET. In addition, we report a case study on Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) voltage support application with respect to WiMAX / WiFi vehicle-to-infrastructure scenarios.

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confidence: 99%

The development of a smart grid co-simulation platform and case study on Vehicle-to-Grid voltage support application

Shum

Lau

Lam

et al. 2013

2013 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)

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“…Early versions of such event-driven co-simulations use fixed time steps to advance both simulators and execute all buffered events at once [6]. Example efforts are EPOCHS [7], VPNET [8], and PowerNet [9]. Such an approach is undesirable for simulations of involving real-time systems such as smart grids.…”

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A microgrid co-simulation framework

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Tipper

Lévesque

et al. 2015

2015 Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Cyber-Physical Energy Systems (MSCPES)

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Microgrids have been proposed as a key piece of the Smart Grid vision to enable the potential of renewable energy generation. Microgrids are required to operate in both grid connected and standalone island mode using local sources of power. A major challenge in implementing microgrids is the communications and control to support transition to and from grid connected mode and operation in island mode. Microgrids consists of two interdependent networks, namely; the power distribution and data communication networks. To accurately capture the overall operation of the system, we propose a co-simulation model driven by embedded power controllers. Further, we propose a novel co-simulation scheduler taking into account events from both the power and communication network simulators, as well as the timing of each embedded controller's execution loop to adaptively synchronize both simulators efficiently. The approach ensures minimal synchronization error while still providing the ability to simulate extended operational scenarios. The numerical results illustrate the novelty of the propose cosimulation to study the microgrid power and communication networks interactions, and the effect on the power stability.

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“…The simulation is driven by the main simulator NS2, which determines the startup and pause of the simulation process, and guides the transmission of status data and control instructions to Modelica. Other examples where this method is adopted include GECO and VPNET [26,27]. Overall, this type of platform is simple and reliable, though low in efficiency due to the serial operation.…”

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A Hardware-in-the-Loop Based Co-Simulation Platform of Cyber-Physical Power Systems for Wide Area Protection Applications

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Abstract:With the development of smart grid technology, there has been an increasingly strong tendency towards the integration between the aspects of power and communication. The traditional power system has gradually transformed into the cyber-physical power system (CPPS), where co-simulation technologies can be utilized as an effective measure to describe the computation, communication, and integration processes of a power grid. In this paper, the construction methods and application scenarios of co-simulation platforms in the current research are first summarized. Then, a scheme of the real-time hardware-in-the-loop co-simulation platform is put forward. On the basis of power grid simulation developed with the Real-Time Laboratory (RT-LAB), and the communication network simulation developed with OPNET, the control center was developed with hardware devices to realize real-world control behavior instead of digital simulations. Therefore, the mixed-signal platform is capable of precisely simulating the dynamic features of CPPS with high speed. The distributed simulation components can be coordinated in a unified environment with high interoperability and reusability. Moreover, through a case study of a wide area load control system, the performance of the proposed platform under various conditions of control strategies, communication environments, and sampling frequencies was revealed and compared. As a result, the platform provided an intuitive and accurate way to reconstruct the CPPS environment where the influence of the information side of the CPPS control effects was verified.

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VPNET: A co-simulation framework for analyzing communication channel effects on power systems

Cited by 78 publications

References 5 publications

The development of a smart grid co-simulation platform and case study on Vehicle-to-Grid voltage support application

The development of a smart grid co-simulation platform and case study on Vehicle-to-Grid voltage support application

A microgrid co-simulation framework

A Hardware-in-the-Loop Based Co-Simulation Platform of Cyber-Physical Power Systems for Wide Area Protection Applications

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