DSEE CyberLab represents a critical infrastructure application area for cyber security research domain. Also wide range of real-time automation requirements and different kind of automation design schemes are represented though this system.
The basis of whole laboratory is RTDS (Real-Time Digital Simulator) which simulates electrical power system in real-time and provides analog and digital inputs and outputs for hardware and software components of automation system. Hardware and software components becomes part of simulation and therefore simulations are called hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop simulations. Another facility for physical systems is a microgridlaboratory which represents prosumer, end-customer having self-generation, energy storage and flexibility (demand response) capabilities in addition to devices consuming electricity. These two facilities may be connected as one physical electricity system using a power amplifier.
Use cases
- Functional testing of smart grid functionalities
- Loss-of-the-Mains protection using passive, active and communication based methods
- Grid code interactions with Loss-of-the-Mains protection
- Several setups of active voltage control in electricity distribution networks
- Demand response based frequency control
- Distributed Fault Location Isolation and Supply Restoration (FLISR) based on IEC 61850 GOOSE messages
- Comparison of frequency measurement methods
- Non-functional testing of smart grid automation
- Scalability, interoperability and robustness of hierarchical decentralized electricity distribution network automation for active network management
- Non-functional performance of distributed FLISR over wireless communication network
- Cyber security of substation automation and distribution automation solutions
- Integrated system testing
- Demonstration of hierarchical decentralized electricity distribution network automation for active network management
- Testing of commercial smart grid automation hardware and software products
- Hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop simulations using RTDS
- Power-hardware-in-the-loop simulation utilizing RTDS and power amplifier (20 kW)
Contacts
- Sami Repo, smart grid, professor
- Pertti Järventausta, electrical energy systems, head of Laboratory of Electrical Energy Engineering
- Peyman Jafary, cyber security specialist, postdoc
- Pertti Pakonen , power quality and measurement specialist, project manager
- Ari Nikander, protection relay specialist, project manager
- Lasse Peltonen, power system simulation specialist, doctoral student
- Kalle Ruuth, distribution automation specialist, doctoral student