A Hardware-in-the-Loop Based Co-Simulation Platform of Cyber-Physical Power Systems for Wide Area Protection Applications
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 c...
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| author | Yi Tang Wei Tai Zengji Liu Mengya Li Qi Wang Yun Liang Li Huang |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-96cef100967342759748defcce33ee1f2022-12-21T18:09:56ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172017-12-01712127910.3390/app7121279app7121279A Hardware-in-the-Loop Based Co-Simulation Platform of Cyber-Physical Power Systems for Wide Area Protection ApplicationsYi Tang0Wei Tai1Zengji Liu2Mengya Li3Qi Wang4Yun Liang5Li Huang6School of Electrical Engineering, Southeast University, Jiangsu 210000, ChinaSchool of Electrical Engineering, Southeast University, Jiangsu 210000, ChinaSchool of Electrical Engineering, Southeast University, Jiangsu 210000, ChinaSchool of Electrical Engineering, Southeast University, Jiangsu 210000, ChinaSchool of Electrical Engineering, Southeast University, Jiangsu 210000, ChinaGlobal Energy Interconnection Research Institute Co., Ltd., State Grid, Beijing 100000, ChinaGlobal Energy Interconnection Research Institute Co., Ltd., State Grid, Beijing 100000, ChinaWith 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.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/7/12/1279cyber-physical power systemco-simulationhardware-in-the-loopwide area load control |
| spellingShingle | Yi Tang Wei Tai Zengji Liu Mengya Li Qi Wang Yun Liang Li Huang A Hardware-in-the-Loop Based Co-Simulation Platform of Cyber-Physical Power Systems for Wide Area Protection Applications Applied Sciences cyber-physical power system co-simulation hardware-in-the-loop wide area load control |
| title | A Hardware-in-the-Loop Based Co-Simulation Platform of Cyber-Physical Power Systems for Wide Area Protection Applications |
| title_full | A Hardware-in-the-Loop Based Co-Simulation Platform of Cyber-Physical Power Systems for Wide Area Protection Applications |
| title_fullStr | A Hardware-in-the-Loop Based Co-Simulation Platform of Cyber-Physical Power Systems for Wide Area Protection Applications |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Hardware-in-the-Loop Based Co-Simulation Platform of Cyber-Physical Power Systems for Wide Area Protection Applications |
| title_short | A Hardware-in-the-Loop Based Co-Simulation Platform of Cyber-Physical Power Systems for Wide Area Protection Applications |
| title_sort | hardware in the loop based co simulation platform of cyber physical power systems for wide area protection applications |
| topic | cyber-physical power system co-simulation hardware-in-the-loop wide area load control |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/7/12/1279 |
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