Cyber-physical test platform for microgrids: Combining hardware, hardware-in-the-loop, and network-simulator-in-the-loop

Austin Nelson; Sudipta Chakraborty; Dexin Wang; Pawan Singh; Qiang Cui; Liuqing Yang; Siddharth Suryanarayanan

doi:10.1109/PESGM.2016.7741176

Cyber-physical test platform for microgrids: Combining hardware, hardware-in-the-loop, and network-simulator-in-the-loop

Austin Nelson
, Sudipta Chakraborty
, Dexin Wang
, Pawan Singh
, Qiang Cui
, Liuqing Yang
, Siddharth Suryanarayanan

Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference Proceeding/Report › Conference Paper published in a book › peer-review

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Abstract

This paper presents a cyber-physical testbed, developed to investigate the complex interactions between emerging microgrid technologies such as grid-interactive power sources, control systems, and a wide variety of communication platforms and bandwidths. The cyber-physical testbed consists of three major components for testing and validation: real time models of a distribution feeder model with microgrid assets that are integrated into the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) power hardware-in-the-loop (PHIL) platform; real-time capable network-simulator-in-the-loop (NSIL) models; and physical hardware including inverters and a simple system controller. Several load profiles and microgrid configurations were tested to examine the effect on system performance with increasing channel delays and router processing delays in the network simulator. Testing demonstrated that the controller's ability to maintain a target grid import power band was severely diminished with increasing network delays and laid the foundation for future testing of more complex cyber-physical systems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2016 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2016
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509041688
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PESGM.2016.7741176
Publication status	Published - 10 Nov 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	2016 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2016 - Boston, United States Duration: 17 Jul 2016 → 21 Jul 2016

Publication series

Name	IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting
Volume	2016-November
ISSN (Print)	1944-9925
ISSN (Electronic)	1944-9933

Conference

Conference	2016 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2016
Country/Territory	United States
City	Boston
Period	17/07/16 → 21/07/16

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© 2016 IEEE.

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Keywords

Cyber-physical
Distribution feeder
Microgrid
Network-simulator-in-the-loop
OMNeT++
Opal-RT
Power hardware-in-the-loop
Real time
Testbed

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Nelson, A., Chakraborty, S., Wang, D., Singh, P., Cui, Q., Yang, L., & Suryanarayanan, S. (2016). Cyber-physical test platform for microgrids: Combining hardware, hardware-in-the-loop, and network-simulator-in-the-loop. In 2016 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2016 Article 7741176 (IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting; Vol. 2016-November). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/PESGM.2016.7741176

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Cyber-physical test platform for microgrids: Combining hardware, hardware-in-the-loop, and network-simulator-in-the-loop. / Nelson, Austin; Chakraborty, Sudipta; Wang, Dexin et al.
2016 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2016. IEEE Computer Society, 2016. 7741176 (IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting; Vol. 2016-November).

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Nelson A, Chakraborty S, Wang D, Singh P, Cui Q, Yang L et al. Cyber-physical test platform for microgrids: Combining hardware, hardware-in-the-loop, and network-simulator-in-the-loop. In 2016 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2016. IEEE Computer Society. 2016. 7741176. (IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting). doi: 10.1109/PESGM.2016.7741176

Cyber-physical test platform for microgrids: Combining hardware, hardware-in-the-loop, and network-simulator-in-the-loop

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