Open AccessHardware-in-the-loop Simulation Method for a Wind Farm Controller Using Real Time Digital Simulator
Author(s) -
Gyeong-Hun Kim,
Jong-Yul Kim,
Jae-Hyung Jeon,
Seulki Kim,
Eung-Sang Kim,
Ju Han Lee,
Minwon Park,
In-Keun Yu
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of electrical engineering and technology/journal of electrical engineering and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.226
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 2093-7423
pISSN - 1975-0102
DOI - 10.5370/jeet.2014.9.5.1489
Subject(s) - real time digital simulator , controller (irrigation) , hardware in the loop simulation , wind power , engineering , wind speed , simulation , transmission (telecommunications) , real time simulation , power (physics) , embedded system , electric power system , electrical engineering , meteorology , physics , quantum mechanics , agronomy , biology
A hardware-in-the-loop simulation (HILS) method for a wind farm controller using a real time digital simulator (RTDS) is presented, and performance of the wind farm controller is analyzed. A 100 MW wind farm which includes 5 MW wind power generation systems (WPGS) is modeled and analyzed in RSCAD/RTDS. The wind farm controller is implemented by using a computer, which is connected to the RTDS through transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP). The HILS results show the active power and power factor of the wind farm, which are controlled by the wind farm controller. The proposed HILS method in this paper can be effectively utilized to validate and test a wind farm controller under the environment in practice without a real wind farm.