Fault-tolerant generator telecontrol over a microgrid IP network

Insaurralde, Carlos; Short, Michael; Dawood, Muneeb

Abstract

© 2015 IEEE. The liberalization of the energy markets, combined with the drive towards a low-carbon economy, has led to the development of the concept of the smart grid. The smart grid is an energy distribution network that enables real-time information exchange for monitoring, control and protection of energy equipment as well as the physical transfer of energy. When smart grid control applications such as generator regulation are implemented over standard IP networks, the stability of the closed-loop has been found to be highly dependent upon the network induced delay, jitter and packet losses. In this paper, we propose and test a fault-tolerant buffering technique and related control design method to enable the effective telecontrol of a generator in such a situation. Computational experiments demonstrate that clear improvements to the closed loop performance and stability can be observed.

Citation

Insaurralde, C., Short, M., & Dawood, M. (2015). Fault-tolerant generator telecontrol over a microgrid IP network. https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2015.7301470

• Conference Name: 2015 IEEE 20th Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA)
• Conference Location: Luxembourg
• Start Date: Sep 8, 2015
• End Date: Sep 11, 2015
• Acceptance Date: Jan 1, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Oct 26, 2015
• Publication Date: Oct 19, 2015
• Deposit Date: Mar 10, 2020
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Volume: 2015-October
• Pages: 1-8
• Series ISSN: 1946-0740
• ISBN: 9781467379298
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2015.7301470
• Keywords: Generators, Delays, Smart grids, Power system stability, IP networks, Solid modeling, Jitter
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/5285416