Random Generation of Arbitrary Waveforms for Emulating Three-Phase Systems

Author

Montaño, Juan-Carlos ; León, Carlos ; García, Antonio ; López, Antonio ; Monedero, Iñigo ; Personal, Enrique

Author_Institution

Electron. Technol. Dept., Univ. of Seville, Seville, Spain

Volume

59

Issue

11

fYear

2012

Firstpage

4032

Lastpage

4040

Abstract

This paper describes an apparatus for generating a signal representative of steady-state and transient disturbances in three-phase waveforms of an ac electrical system as described in IEEE Std 1159-09. It can be configured as a synthesizer of randomly distorted signals for different applications: for testing the effects of disturbed grid on equipment and to generate patterns of electrical disturbances for the training of artificial neural networks, which are used for measuring power quality tasks. For the first purpose, voltage and current amplifiers are added in the output stage, which allows the generation of disturbed signals at grid level.

Keywords

electricity supply industry; power amplifiers; power grids; power system measurement; AC electrical system; IEEE Std 1159-09; arbitrary waveforms; current amplifiers; disturbed grid; electrical disturbances; power quality task measurement; power supply industry; random generation; three-phase system emulation; three-phase waveforms; transient disturbances; voltage amplifiers; AC motors; Current measurement; Generators; Harmonic analysis; Load management; Mathematical model; Power amplifiers; Training; AC generators; artificial neural network (ANN); education; load modeling; power hardware in the loop (PHIL); power quality (PQ); power system simulation; signal synthesis; test equipment;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0278-0046

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TIE.2011.2174532

Filename

6069857