{"id":344,"date":"2019-10-25T21:10:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T21:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/?page_id=344"},"modified":"2019-11-07T01:46:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T01:46:03","slug":"microgrid-control-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/labs\/microgrid-control-laboratory\/","title":{"rendered":"Microgrid Control Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row mb-4 mb-sm-5 pt-md-2\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-4\">\n<h4 class=\"h6 text-uppercase mt-5 mt-lg-0 mb-3\">Location<\/h4>\n<p>IR Building, RM 154<br \/>\nUniversity of Central Florida<br \/>\n4000 Central Florida Blvd.<br \/>\nOrlando, Florida 32816 <\/p>\n<h4 class=\"h6 text-uppercase mt-5 mt-lg-0 mb-3\">Lab Director<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Zhihua Qu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"h6 text-uppercase mt-5 mt-lg-0 mb-3\">Faculty Members<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Aleks Dimitrovski<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Qifeng Li<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Junjian Qi<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Zhihua Qu<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Wei Sun<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Qun Zhou<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-7 align-self-center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid\" src=\"\/~qu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/TI_sys.jpg\" alt=\"Siemens Lab\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr class=\"my-2\">\n<h3>Mission<\/h3>\n<div class=\"row mb-4 mb-sm-5 pt-md-2\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-7\">\nThe lab aims at safe, reliable, efficient and secure operation of large-scale distribution networks with extremely high penetration of renewables. Local communication and automatic clustering are used to enable self-organizing microgrids. Distributed optimization and control algorithms are used to autonomously coordinate intermittent renewables and other distributed energy resources, to maintain voltage stability, to minimize energy loss, and to optimize demand responses and storage. Through collaborating with industry\/utility partners, real-world data are used to validate designs, and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulations are conducted. Students can also test their algorithms using a bench-top setup.\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-4 offset-lg-1\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid\" src=\"\/~qu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/OpalRT_sys.png\" alt=\"Siemens Lab\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr class=\"my-2\">\n<h3>Laboratory Facility<\/h3>\n<p>The lab provides capabilities of both software modeling and hardware-in-the-loop testing for microgrid modeling and control. In addition to standard software (PSS\/E, DIgSILENT, ETAP, EMTP, DSATools, CPLEX), the lab is equipped with a multi-agent OpenDSS platform (<a href=\"\/~qu\/ma-opendss\/\">MA-OpenDSS<\/a>). As shown in the middle diagram below, the lab contains OPAL-RT hardware (eMEGAsim, ePHASORsim, RT-Lab, IRIG\/GPS Synchronization reference board, Driver IEC61850 GOOSE for protection relay interface), SEL relays (SEL-411L Advanced Line Differential Protection, Automation, and Control System), SEL-3373 Station Phasor Data Concentrator, SEL-2488 Satellite-Synchronized Network Clock, and SEL-2730M Managed Ethernet Switch. In addition, there is also an inverter-based bench-top microgrid demonstration setup (see the photo on top). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Location IR Building, RM 154 University of Central Florida 4000 Central Florida Blvd. Orlando, Florida 32816 Lab Director Dr. Zhihua Qu Faculty Members Dr. Aleks Dimitrovski Dr. Qifeng Li Dr. Junjian Qi Dr. Zhihua Qu Dr. Wei Sun Dr. Qun Zhou Mission The lab aims at safe, reliable, efficient and secure operation of large-scale distribution [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":73,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-344","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/344\/revisions\/483"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}