VILLAS Concept
- 1. VILLAS concept Virtually Interconnected Laboratories for LArge systems Simulation/emulation Technical Workshop of the ERIGrid Project 13.09.2018 Oldenburg, Germany Prof. Antonello Monti
- 2. Prof. Antonello Monti, Ph. D. | ERIGrid workshop | September 20182 Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems Research Areas ICT 4 EnergyGrid Operations § Fundamentals of Grid Dynamics § Network Stability § Hybrid DC/AC Networks § Grid Monitoring § Grid Automation § Integration of Renewables § Energy as data-driven systems § Distributed Computing for Complex System Simulation § Distributed Intelligence for Energy Systems § Cloud applications for energy § Real-Time Systems § Smart Cities § Future Energy Networks § Center for Wind Drives § Future Internet Applications
- 3. Prof. Antonello Monti, Ph. D. | ERIGrid workshop | September 20183 Real Time Simulation Lab at ACS
- 4. Prof. Antonello Monti, Ph. D. | ERIGrid workshop | September 20184 External Interconnections Uni. South Carolina, US Joint Research Center, EU Politecnico di Torino, Italy Idaho National Lab, USA Politehnica din Bucuresti Rumania Waterford Institute of Technology Ireland Sintef, Norway ACS Real Time Lab 5 MW PGS Test Bench 1 MW On-Shore Wind Turbine Test Bench 4 MW On-Shore Wind Turbine Test Bench
- 5. Prof. Antonello Monti, Ph. D. | ERIGrid workshop | September 20185 Real-time simulation capacity A single RTDS rack with PB5 cards can handle ~24 3-phase network nodes. RWTH owns 8 Racks: → 192 nodes in total The Romanian transmission system alone has already more than 1500 network 3ph nodes RTDS PB5 card Source: rtds.comSimplified diagram of the Romanian transmission system Source: TransE
- 6. Prof. Antonello Monti, Ph. D. | ERIGrid workshop | September 20186 Global Power Grid ■ Ultrahigh-voltage dc links between continents to build Global Power Grid ■ How such a grid will operate? ≡ Large-scale and holistic simulation and testing environment for design and assessment ≡ A flexible framework for collaboration between research entities, industries and utilities Illustration of a possible Global Grid Jones, Lawrence E. Renewable Energy Integration: Practical Management of Variability, Uncertainty and Flexibility In Power Grids. Burlington: Academic Press, 2014.
- 7. Prof. Antonello Monti, Ph. D. | ERIGrid workshop | September 20187 Our Solution: Global Real-Time Simulation ■ Distributed co-simulation to share simulation capacity and hardware by coupling real-time simulators ■ Distributed simulation allows participants to keep their data confidential ■ Still real-time to interface with real hardware for prototyping ■ Latency between simulators and simulation sites caused by distance between labs ■ Different simulators generate different results and there is no reference implementation ■ Compatibility with existing grid descriptions (CIM) → new simulator called DPsim as part of simulation platform
- 8. Prof. Antonello Monti, Ph. D. | ERIGrid workshop | September 20188 Dynamic Phasors for Decoupling Large-Scale Distributed Simulation ■ Fourier spectrum of real-valued signal is symmetric around the ! = 0 axis → negative part can be omitted ■ We could shift the bandpass signal $%& by a certain frequency which results in a baseband representation ■ The resulting signal still contains all the information of the original signal except for the carrier frequency ■ In the time domain the baseband signal envelopes the original signal 0 !" ! ! #$% #$$ = #$% ((! − (!") By Brews ohare - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19014255
- 9. Prof. Antonello Monti, Ph. D. | ERIGrid workshop | September 20189 A Global Virtual Testbed ■Ingredients for a global virtual testbed ≡ A common model format for exchanging and retargeting models ≡ Flexible interfaces for interconnecting a heterogenous set of simulators and devices ≡ A common user interface for collaborative editing, control and monitoring ≡ Open solvers for verifiable and scalable simulations
- 10. Prof. Antonello Monti, Ph. D. | ERIGrid workshop | September 201810 VILLASframework VILLASnode ≡ A gateway for real-time simulation data VILLASweb ≡ A web-interface for planning, executing and controlling distributed simulations DPsim ≡ A real-time simulation kernel for the EMT/DP domain CIM++ ≡ A library for parsing and compiling CIM to Modelica, GLM Pintura ≡ Web-based Graphical Editor for CIM models ■ Open source tool kit for distributed real-time simulation (GPLv3 license)
- 11. Prof. Antonello Monti, Ph. D. | ERIGrid workshop | September 201811 VILLASframework Integration Layers ■ Hard Real-Time Integration Layer ■ Soft Real-Time Integration Layer ■ Offline Integration Layer
- 12. Prof. Antonello Monti, Ph. D. | ERIGrid workshop | September 201812 VILLASframework Framework for Virtual Integration of Laboratories ■ VILLAS - Virtually Interconnected Laboratories for LArge systems Simulation/emulation ≡ a flexible integration of the resources available at each laboratory ≡ a flexible utilization of an infrastructure as a whole ■ VILLASframework aims at providing a specific set of interfaces and services ≡ hard and soft real-time interfaces = integration of geographically dispersed hardware and software assets for joint operation in a single experiment ≡ high-level interfaces such as a user interface, an interface for data logging = interactions with an experiment and post-processing of results for further analyses ≡ high-level services, such as Simulation as a Service, Data as a Service = flexible access for third parties to leverage utilization of the infrastructure
- 13. Prof. Antonello Monti, Ph. D. | ERIGrid workshop | September 201813 VILLASnode
- 14. Prof. Antonello Monti, Ph. D. | ERIGrid workshop | September 201814 VILLASweb Live monitoring
- 15. Prof. Antonello Monti, Ph. D. | ERIGrid workshop | September 201815 History of Distributed Simulation Projects at RWTH-ACS ProOfGrids •SINTEF, RWTH ERIC Lab • JRC, POLITO & RWTH VILLAS • FZ Jülich, RWTH Global RT- SuperLab • INL, NREL, SNL, USC, CSU, WSU, POLITO, RWTH RESERVE • POLITO, UPB, WIT, RWTH InFIS • RWTH May 2013 Aug 2015 Sept 2015 Sept 2017 Sept 2016 July 2018 (Integrierte Forschungs- Infrastrukturen)
- 16. Prof. Antonello Monti, Ph. D. | ERIGrid workshop | September 201816 VILLASframework for ERIC Lab Demonstration ■ ERIC Lab - European Real-time Integrated Co-simulation Laboratory ≡ A network of European laboratories for a science-based support of policy decision making toward future electricity systems ■ The concept has been demonstrated in a collaboration with Politecnico di Torino (POLITO) and Energy Security, Systems and Market Unit of the EC Joint Research Center (JRC)
- 17. Prof. Antonello Monti, Ph. D. | ERIGrid workshop | September 201817 RT-Super Lab Transatlantic Distributed Test Bed ■ Objectives ≡ Establish a vendor-neutral distributed platform based on interconnections Digital Real-Time Simulators (DRTS), Power-Hardware- In-the-Loop (PHIL) and Controller-Hardware-In-the- Loop (CHIL) assets hosted at geographically dispersed facilities ≡ Demonstration of multi-lab real-time simulation and distributed PHIL and CHIL setup for simulation and analysis of next generation global power grids
- 18. Prof. Antonello Monti, Ph. D. | ERIGrid workshop | September 201818 Existing deployments of RWTH VILLASframework ■ 8 Deployments during RT-SuperLab in the US ■ 5 Deployments throughout Europe
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