Device Access Abstractions for Resilient Information Architecture Platform for Smart Grid

Journal Article · Tue Jun 12 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · IEEE Embedded Systems Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/LES.2018.2845854· OSTI ID:1455436

Dubey, Abhishek ^[1]; Karsai, Gabor ^[1]; Volgyesi, Peter ^[1]; Metelko, Mary ^[1]; Madari, Istvan ^[1]; Tu, Hao ^[2]; Du, Yuhua ^[2]; Lukic, Srdjan ^[2]

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1. Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States)
2. North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States)

An open application platform distributes the intelligence and control capability to local endpoints (or nodes) reducing total network traffic, improving speed of local actions by avoiding latency, and improving reliability by reducing dependencies on numerous devices and communication interfaces. The platform must be multi-tasking and able to host multiple applications running simultaneously. Given such a system, the core functions of power grid control systems include grid state determination, low level control, fault intelligence and reconfiguration, outage intelligence, power quality measurement, remote asset monitoring, configuration management, power and energy management (including local distributed energy resources, such as wind, solar and energy storage) can be eventually distributed. However, making this move requires extensive regression testing of systems to prove out new technologies, such as phasor measurement units (PMU). Additionally, as the complexity of the systems increase with the inclusion of new functionality (especially at the distribution and consumer levels), hidden coupling issues becomes a challenge with possible N-way interactions known and not known by device and application developers. Therefore, it is very important to provide core abstractions that ensure uniform operational semantics across such interactions. Here in this paper, we describe the pattern for abstracting device interactions we have developed for the RIAPS platform in the context of a microgrid control application we have developed.

• Research Organization: Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
• Grant/Contract Number: AR0000666
• OSTI ID: 1455436
• Report Number(s): DOE-VANDERBILT-0000666-18
• Journal Information: IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, Vol. 11, Issue 2; ISSN 1943-0663
• Publisher: IEEE
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
42 ENGINEERING
24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION
97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
Component-based software engineering
RIAPS
open application platform
phase/frequency regulation
device interface
microgrid resynchonizer
distributed
Power systems
Protocols
Software
Relays
Hardware
Real-time systems
Synchronization