Query: plug and play power

Candidate papers:

abstract: This paper presents the development of a plug and play (P&P) power electronics education board designed to build a hands on power electronics lab incorporating wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductor switches and circuits. The developed education board adopts modular architecture and P&P concept to allow students to construct various power electronics experiment setups and handle different semiconductor devices such as Si based and WBG devices. By inserting the modular daughter boards and completing system connections on the motherboard, various lab experiments can be conducted; from switching characteristic analysis of different semiconductor devices to control of different power converters such as basic DC DC and DC AC converters and isolation type DC DC converters. This helps students to get familiar with the system/subsystem level design of power converters and experience the impact of WBG devices compared to Si based one. The system design considerations are discussed, and the fabricated hardware and its experiments are presented.
author_names: Namwon Kim

Chondon Roy

Robert W Cox

Babak Parkhideh
title: A Plug and Play Power Electronics Education Board for Hands on Learning of Power Converters Incorporating WBG Semiconductor
venue: 2019 10th International Conference on Power Electronics and ECCE Asia (ICPE 2019 ECCE Asia)
year: 2019

abstract: Power consumption in many countries continues to outpace the power generation capabilities of the main grid. To circumvent this challenge, individual households or even entire communities are going off grid. The most ubiquitous alternative energy sources are from wind and solar generated power. From the consumers point of view, the biggest challenge to taking advantages of these resources is usually with the installation of the off grid system, thus necessitating a plug and play architecture. Furthermore, the ability to seamlessly transition to an off grid generator when the main power grid goes down remains a critical technical challenge. In this paper, we review existing architectures for off grid plug and play power generators. We also present specifications and system architectures for off grid plug and play solar powered generators that would be well suited to African countries.
author_names: Kennedy A Aganah

James Chukwuma

Mandoye Ndoye
title: A Review of Off Grid Plug and Play Solar Power Systems: Toward a New "I Better Pass My Neighbour" Generator
venue: 2019 IEEE PES/IAS PowerAfrica
year: 2019

abstract: This paper presents the development of a power electronics teaching lab to prepare students for the next generation of power electronics engineering using wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductor devices. The objectives are to expedite the transfer of theoretical knowledge to practical experience on WBG semiconductor devices, and at the same time to provide a hands on understanding of the development of comprehensive power electronics systems. To incorporate different types of semiconductor devices, especially WBG semiconductor switches, and perform various lab experiments from an investigation of component switching characteristics to construction and operation of power converters, a plug and play (P&P) modular power electronics education board is developed. The P&P architecture allows easy construction of different power electronics circuits by simply inserting semiconductor daughter boards to the motherboard. To assist students' learning experience, the lab curriculum consisting of lab manuals and supporting resources is developed. Multiple workshops have been held with ECE undergraduate and graduate students to evaluate the performance of the lab. Final assessment and student's feedback are presented as the outcome of the development.
author_names: Chondon Roy

Namwon Kim

Robert W Cox

Babak Parkhideh
title: Development of a Power Electronics Teaching Lab Incorporating WBG Semiconductors with Plug and Play Modular Hardware and Advanced Curriculum
venue: 2019 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE)
year: 2019

abstract: This paper introduces a plug and play sensing circuitry and controller to enable optimal transient recovery in high end single phase and multiphase buck converter VRMs. The control circuitry provides transient detection and charge balance point identification independently of parameters variations. Detailed circuit operation is provided as well as component selection consideration for practical implementation. The time optimal response operation is verified via simulation and experiments on a 12V to 1V, 100A multiphase buck prototype.
author_names: Bar Halivni

Mor Mordechai Peretz
title: Plug and Play Optimal Transient Mitigation Control Circuitry for High Power High Performance VRM
venue: 2019 20th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL)
year: 2019

abstract: This paper presents a new architecture for the next generation reconfigurable power management control (PMC) system for all electric vehicles, which can handle the personalization and evolution of vehicle architectures in a plug and play (PnP) fashion. The proposed control system utilizes multi agent system (MAS) for reconfigurability and integrates on line model learning with Gaussian process. In the two case studies of PnP scenarios, one with limited power supply and another with excessive power supply, the simulation results suggest that the proposed PMC system is capable of stabilizing the system and performs better than the baseline controller. The improvement in performance over the baseline voltage power droop controller can be up to 59% when parameters are optimized using on line learning.
author_names: Kang-Ching Chu

George Bucsan

Masanori Ishigaki

Atsushi Iwai

Chungchih Chou

Kazuhiro Saitou
title: Plug and Play Power Management Control of All Electric Vehicles Using Multi Agent System and On line Gaussian Learning
venue: 2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)
year: 2018

abstract: With the new trend for the rapid development of power grid, the scale of equipment accessed to power grid has grown explosively. The information exchange services which need to provide are also complicated. In the future of large scale power grid, facing with the properties of high efficiency, real time and security for the information exchange between the power grid equipment and the system, and the satisfaction of wide area and local communication requirements for the large power grid coverage, it needs to realize the plug and play interaction function between the intelligent electric substation and the main station of dispatch and control. We propose the application of Power Grid Equipment Plug and Play based on Wide Area SOA, according to wide area service oriented architecture design for plug and play power grid equipment, which adopts the service proxy mechanism to manage and control the service domain accessed to the wide area network through the domain management center. Consequently, our proposed based on Wide Area SOA, according to wide area can obtain the power grid applications' service interaction, and improve the main station's capabilities with the service cooperation among its applications.
author_names: Zhenyu Chen

Dapeng Li

Zhaoyun Deng

Xingyu Gao

Fangchun Di

Qiaoyun Xie
title: The Application of Power Grid Equipment Plug and Play Based on Wide Area SOA
venue: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Energy Internet (ICEI)
year: 2018

abstract: Aiming at the fact of the heavy workload and high cost in the construction, operation and maintenance of power distribution system, the definition, technical focus and implementation of the plug and play technology for power distribution terminals are analyzed based on the value brought by the Internet of Things (IoT) which can improve the automation level of power distribution system and reduce the workload of system construction and daily maintenance. The plug and play solution for power distribution terminal management was explored in some cities, which has been proved efficiently.
author_names: Jiaying Lin

Peng Wang

Jichuan Zhang

Zhiming Zhang

Haoyang Sun
title: Plug and Play Technology for Power Distribution Terminal Management based on the IoT Ideas
venue: 2019 IEEE 8th International Conference on Advanced Power System Automation and Protection (APAP)
year: 2019

abstract: In this paper, a straightforward plug and play voltage ripple mitigator (RM) is proposed. Unlike existing voltage ripple reduction methods, the proposed device can be attached to the dc link of a hybrid ac dc power system without modifying the host system itself. In particular, a local bus voltage control scheme is employed to achieve the plug and play operation. With the requirement of the dc link voltage measurement only, this device can be operated as a standalone module. Theoretical analysis and experimental work on a boost type power factor correction rectification system have been successfully performed to validate the effectiveness of the ripple mitigating function, the hot swap operation and the nonintrusive property of the RM. Practical results obtained from a 110 W miniature hybrid ac dc power system comprising an ac/dc converter and two resistive loads are included to demonstrate some of the functions of the RM.
author_names: Sinan Li

Albert Ting Leung Lee

Siew-Chong Tan

Shu Yuen Ron Hui
title: Plug and Play Voltage Ripple Mitigator for DC Links in Hybrid AC DC Power Grids With Local Bus Voltage Control
venue: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
year: 2018

abstract: A distributed control scheme, which can be implemented on generators and controllable loads in a plug and play manner, is proposed for power system frequency regulation. The proposed scheme is based on local measurements, local computation, and neighborhood information exchanges over a communication network with an arbitrary (but connected) topology. In the event of a sudden change in generation or load, the proposed scheme can restore the nominal frequency and the reference inter area power flows, while minimizing the total cost of control for participating generators and loads. Power network stability under the proposed control is proved with a relatively realistic model which includes nonlinear power flow and a generic (potentially nonlinear or high order) turbine governor model, and further with first and second order turbine governor models as special cases. In simulations, the proposed control scheme shows a comparable performance to the existing automatic generation control (AGC) when implemented only on the generator side, and demonstrates better dynamic characteristics than AGC when each scheme is implemented on both generators and controllable loads. Simulation results also show robustness of the proposed scheme to communication link failure.
author_names: Changhong Zhao

Enrique Mallada

Steven H Low

Janusz W Bialek
title: Distributed plug and play optimal generator and load control for power system frequency regulation
year: 2018

abstract: Distributed control and optimization strategies are a promising alternative approach to centralized control within microgrids. In this paper, a multi agent system is developed to deal with the distributed secondary control of islanded microgrids. Two main challenges are identified in the coordination of a microgrid: (i) interoperability among equipment from different vendors; and (ii) online re configuration of the network in the case of alteration of topology. To cope with these challenges, the agents are designed to communicate with physical devices via the industrial standard IEC 61850 and incorporate a plug and play feature. This allows interoperability within a microgrid at agent layer as well as allows for online re configuration upon topology alteration. A test case of distributed frequency control of islanded microgrid with various scenarios was conducted to validate the operation of proposed approach under controller and power hardware in the loop environment, comprising prototypical hardware agent systems and realistic communications network.
author_names: Tung Lam Nguyen

Efren Guillo-Sansano

Mazheruddin Hussain Syed

Van Hoa Nguyen

Steven M Blair

Luis Reguera

Quoc Tuan Tran

Raphael Caire

Graeme M Burt

Catalin Gavriluta

Ngoc-An Luu
title: Multi Agent System with Plug and Play Feature for Distributed Secondary Control in Microgrid Controller and Power Hardware in the Loop Implementation
year: 2018