The modern day smart grid technology relies heavily on data acquisition and analysis. A distributed controller governs smart microgrid
functions with one or more renewable sources and smart controllable loads. This sort of intelligent, scalable system is the primary drive for
the Energy Internet (EI). Hence, in modern-day power systems engineering to analyze, understand and make efficient system design choices that
capture robustness and scalability, Hardware in the Loop (HIL) simulations are required. Real-Time Simulations (RTS) is the state of the art
technology thrusting the capstone of innovation for this industry. As engineers, we can model, simulate and validate smart grids operations
more rapidly, robustly and reliably using RTS. With enough smaller time step for the simulation, the boundary between the real and the
simulated systems slowly vanishes. It also enables the system to be simulated as Controller Hardware in the Loop (CHIL) or Power Hardware in
the Loop (PHIL) setups, evolving and imitating the real physical world. The HIL (Hardware in the Loop) setup also enables a real data source
or sink to be in the system to form the loop of exchange between the simulated system and real-world hardware which is most often a control
hardware. The implementation of such a setup is made possible at Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS), named as Hardware in the Loop
Test-Bed (HIL-TB). This evaluation architecture provides a systematic solution to HIL simulations. Now the sampling time for real-world
sensors is generally in the order of microseconds, enabling this collected data to emulate the cyber-physical domain accurately. Thus, the
challenge previously was to address the throughput of real-world input data into the simulated system efficiently and correctly. The quality
of the Design of Simulation (DoS) using the real world data in the form of Real Time Input Profile (RTIP), improves, affects the quality of
response of the real-time cyber-physical system simulation. Thus great care needs to be taken to prepare, prune and project the RTIPs to
improve and enhance the system performance evaluation index. To solve this problem, partially successful attempts have been made in the
direction of machine learning by using methods like clustering and regression to characterize large input profiles or by breaking them into
subsections using fixed length sliding window techniques. These classic methods then perform data analysis on those sub-pieces to distinguish
among a variety of input profiles and assign an index. These sub-profiles or sections would be then loaded into the simulation as
environmental input to represent the physical system in the HIL simulations. This traditional procedure is observed to be arbitrary because
clustering algorithms and metrics for methods like regression or classification are user-defined and there exists no standard practice to
deal with huge input profiles. There have also been confusions regarding the size of the sliding window to create subsections, subsection
joining logic, etc. Thus, to address this issue, the primary focus of this study is to present a systematic, controlled, reliable procedure
to explore, screen, crop large input profiles and then to compress the same by selecting sections with most relative importance using a
modified version of “knapsack” dynamic programming algorithm. This compression primarily aims to shrink down the total simulation time
without much loss of information. The latter part of this study focuses towards response driven performance evaluation of the HIL
simulations. This is ensured by targeted compression of original input profile based on the certain requirement of the simulation. This
approach ensures that the control algorithm (CHIL simulations) or any other system operator is driven in a specific direction in the
simulation response space by effectively sampling the input parameters space. The fully automated HIL-TB evaluation framework aided with
Input Profile Time Compression (IPTC) module delivers a fast-convergent validation for the performance evaluation with relatively similar
system response. In this study, the IPTC module has been applied to seven load profiles to compress their temporal length by a third. The
case study used for the simulation with these RTIPs is the Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management (FREEDM) IEEE seven node
system. The test results show great coherence between the uncompressed and compressed response and validate the performance of the IPTC
module applied to real-world HIL simulations. Thus, it can conclude that the functionality of the IPTC module is validated by the quality of
simulation response gained out of the compressed simulation as compared to uncompressed simulation. In future, endeavors can be made in this
path by expanding the functionality of this compression module to not only identifying and managing important sections based on some initial
assumption about the objective of the control application but also providing cognitive, autonomous understanding of the behavior of the
controls and using that knowledge accomplishing compression of large input profiles. / A Thesis submitted to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the degree of Master of Science. / Fall Semester 2017. / November 15, 2017. / Design of Simulation, Hardware in the Loop Simulation, Input Profile Compression, Real Time Simulation, Time
Compression / Includes bibliographical references. / Omar Faruque, Professor Co-Directing Thesis; Mischa Steurer, Professor Co-Directing Thesis; Hui Li,
Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_604956 |
| Contributors | Chatterjee, Sourindu (author), Faruque, Md Omar (professor co-directing thesis), Steurer, Mischa (professor co-directing thesis), Li, Hui, 1970- (committee member), Florida State University (degree granting institution), College of Engineering (degree granting college), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (degree granting departmentdgg) |
| Publisher | Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text, master thesis |
| Format | 1 online resource (82 pages), computer, application/pdf |
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