Board 108: Low-Cost Hardware-in-the-Loop Real-Time Simulation Platform
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Portland, Oregon
- Publication Date
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June 23, 2024
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June 23, 2024
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July 12, 2024
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Engineering Technology Division (ETD)
- Permanent URL
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https://peer.asee.org/46663
Paper Authors
Aaron Fan New Jersey Institute of Technology
Milad Shojaee New Jersey Institute of Technology
MILAD SHOJAEE (Graduate Student Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Hamedan University of Technology, Hamedan, Iran, in 2012, and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 2016. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA. His research interests include modeling, robust control, decentralized control, fault diagnosis, renewable energies, and machine learning.
Mohsen Azizi
New Jersey Institute of Technology
orcid.org/0000-0002-8178-2520
Mohsen Azizi is an assistant professor in the School of Applied Engineering and Technology at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, in 2005 and 2010, respectively. From 2010 to 2013, he was an R&D engineer at Aviya Tech Inc. and Pratt & Whitney Canada Inc., Longueuil, Canada, where he designed and developed control and fault diagnosis systems for jet engines. His research has been focused on decentralized control and fault diagnosis techniques in microgrids, renewable energy systems, mechatronics, and aerospace.
Abstract
In this paper, the design and development of a low-cost laboratory-scale hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation platform for power systems is presented by employing a Raspberry Pi and three Arduino UNOs. HIL simulations are vital in system design and prototyping and offer a safe and efficient method to test hardware and software systems within a simulated operational context. The proposed platform leverages a Raspberry Pi to emulate the dynamic model of a three-area power generation system, with the three Arduino UNOs performing as three individual local controllers. This cost-effective approach minimizes the need for physical prototypes, leading to substantial cost savings and enhanced scalability. The platform functions as an educational tool for understanding closed-loop control systems, which eliminates the necessity for costly industrial hardware. The implemented three-area power generation system includes synchronous generators, in which the impacts of renewable energy sources and energy storage systems are considered as disturbances. Initially, the closed-loop power system is modeled and tested using MATLAB as a benchmark, and then simulated and implemented on the developed low-cost HIL platform. The HIL simulation results exhibited negligible deviations from the anticipated MATLAB outcomes, which suggest the platform’s potential to be used in other industrial applications including but not limited to aerospace, automotive, and mechatronics systems in future investigations.
Fan, A., & Shojaee, M., & Azizi, M. (2024, June), Board 108: Low-Cost Hardware-in-the-Loop Real-Time Simulation Platform Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. https://peer.asee.org/46663
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