Erkios: End-to-end field-based RAS testing

Author

Oleas Chavez, Luis E. ; Bakken, David E. ; Bose, Anjan ; Panciatici, Patrick

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA, USA

fYear

2015

fDate

18-20 Feb. 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Today´s increasingly-stressed grids are relying more on remedial actions schemes (RAS) as an emergency tripwire to stop a blackout. One problem associated with RAS is that once they are deployed only some of their components are tested, and then infrequently. In this paper we introduce Erkios, a middleware framework for testing RAS end-to-end and in-field. This paper presents an analysis of the requirements for such testing, the design of Erkios including its failures handled, and a description of the Erkios prototype.

Keywords

middleware; power engineering computing; power system faults; power system reliability; Erkios prototype; emergency tripwire; end-to-end field-based RAS testing; in-field RAS testing; middleware framework; remedial action scheme; system blackout; Actuators; Middleware; Sensor systems; Substations; Testing; Wide area networks; fault tolerant systems; middleware; power system protection; remedial action scheme; substation protection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT), 2015 IEEE Power & Energy Society

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISGT.2015.7131869

Filename

7131869