Real time digital simulator empowered modeling, diagnostics, protection and control of power components and systems
Abstract
This project intends to secure fund from the Department of Defense (DoD) UniversityInstrumentation Program to purchase critical res earch equipment including a real time digitalsimulation system - RTDS simulator, Omicron protection testing system CMC 356 and a po weramplifier EGSTON CSU100. The project team includes a group of faculty members in the Powerand Energy Institute of Kentucky (PEI K) at the University of Kentucky, who has strong interestsin research and education critical to the missions of DoD. The equipment to purchase will empowerinvestigators to perform research in modeling, simulation, diagnostics, protection and control ofpower co mponents and systems, which are critical to the mission of the DoD.In the planned research, modeling and simulation based on digita l twin concept will bedeveloped for prognostics and diagnostics of electric power components and systems. Protectionand control me thods for microgrid systems such as military manufacturing system and navalshipboard power system will be developed. The new equipm ent will enable the research team toperform controller and power hardware in the loop test, where the performance of physicalequip ment such as controllers, inverters and motors can be realistically tested under variousoperating conditions, and their responses w ill be fed back to the simulator so that the impact ofthese devices under test in the network can also be thoroughly studied. As a result, instead ofverifying a new method through only simulation, the hardware provides the possibility to validatethe algorithms through more realistic tests.The equipment will enhance existing defense related research and enable investigators topursue more future defense related grants and educate more undergraduate and graduate studentswho have the expertise in power and energy area to meet the need for future defense labor force.The project team also plans to make the equipment available to researchers at othe r universitiesand the industry for broader impacts. The new equipment will greatly enhance the research andeducation infrastructur e and capacity at the University of Kentucky, and as a result the PEIK centerwill make a steady step toward establishing itself as one of the leading and key contributors toDoD research and education.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Oct 22, 2021
- Source ID
- N000142112972
Entities
People
- Yuan Liao
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of Kentucky