Implementation of FREEDM Smart Grid distributed load balancing using IEC 61499 function blocks

Author

Patil, Swapnil ; Vyatkin, Valeriy ; McMillin, Bruce

Author_Institution

Univ. of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

fYear

2013

fDate

10-13 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

8154

Lastpage

8159

Abstract

This paper presents implementation of one of the Distributed Grid Intelligence (DGI) applications: Load Balancing, using the IEC61499 architecture. This enables system level design of distributed load balancing application with a direct pathway to deployment to hardware. The use of IEC 61499 improves scalability, re-configurability and maintainability of automation software. The application was deployed to commercial programmable automation devices and embedded controller (ARM based TS-7800). The application was verified using co-simulation approach: control and power system simulated using Matlab on PC networked with the number of distributed hardware running load balance algorithm. The use of IEC 61499 facilitates deployment of hardware independent function block model to the variety of compliant hardware.

Keywords

distributed control; load distribution; power system control; smart power grids; ARM TS-7800; FREEDM smart grid; IEC 61499 function blocks; Matlab; automation software; commercial programmable automation devices; distributed grid intelligence; distributed load balancing; embedded controller; hardware deployment; power system control; power system simulation; Computer architecture; IEC standards; Load management; Load modeling; MATLAB; Mathematical model; Peer-to-peer computing; FREEDM; GreenHub; IEC 61499; distributed intelligence; interoperability; load balancing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2013 - 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Vienna

ISSN

1553-572X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.2013.6700497

Filename

6700497