Intelligent Micro Grid Controller Development for Hardware-in-the-loop Micro Grid Simulation Subject to Cyber-Attacks

Authors

  • Mike Mekkanen
  • Tero Vartiainen
  • Kimmo Kauhaniemi
  • Duong Dang

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3384/ecp21185132

Keywords:

microgrid controller, co-simulation, EC61850, next-generation power system, real time simulator, cyber attack, HIL, IED

Abstract

This paper develops Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation against cyber attacks. We design a light-weight intelligent electronic device (IED) that performs Micro Grid Controller (MGC), interfaces are developed based on International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 61850 GOOSE protocol from/to the real-time simulation and the MGC. They are executed on two equipment stages, Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and BeagleBoneBlack. CSIL versus CHIL tests are used to evaluate the Micro Grid (MG) behavior against different cyber attacks. We also evaluate the MGC designed control function in accordance with IEC 61850 GOOSE protocol. The results show that the light-weight MGC approach and data modeling of various IEC 61850 predefined data objects, data attributes and logical nodes (LNs) are correct for the design of the power balance control/protection function against cyber attacks in various cyber-attack case studies.

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Published

2022-03-31