Microgrid Route Simulation for Device Failure Interaction Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional systems are unable to effectively assess or predict interactions between electrical elements in microgrid deployments, making it difficult to maintain power delivery capability during external shocks and failures.
Innovation Solution
A simulation architecture is developed to simulate the operation of devices in a microgrid system, using a communication interface to model power inputs and outputs, allowing for the simulation of device failures and interactions within the microgrid network.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional systems are used to monitor power delivery devices, then the system structure is simple, but the ability to assess or predict interactions between electrical elements is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the microgrid system through a simulation architecture that replicates the electrical distribution system, devices, and their interactions. This digital twin approach allows assessment and prediction of device interactions without adding physical complexity to the actual power delivery infrastructure
Solution Approach 2:
The simulation architecture acts as an intermediary between the physical microgrid and the analysis process. It receives data from the electrical distribution system, processes interactions virtually, and provides predictions about device behaviors and failures without directly modifying the physical system
2Reliability
If a simulation architecture is implemented to simulate device operations and failures, then the ability to maintain power delivery capability improves, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The simulation architecture performs preliminary actions by predicting potential failures and interactions between devices before they occur in the actual system. It proactively identifies risky scenarios and allows operators to prepare mitigation strategies, maintaining power delivery capability by preventing failures rather than just responding to them
Solution Approach 2:
The simulation architecture serves multiple functions: it monitors device operations, predicts failures, analyzes interactions between electrical elements, and provides training scenarios. This multi-functionality consolidates what would otherwise require separate systems into a single platform, managing complexity while enhancing reliability
3Reliability
If conventional monitoring systems are used, then the ease of operation is maintained, but the ability to simulate and prepare for potential failures is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual failure analysis and physical testing with a computational simulation system. Instead of mechanically testing failure scenarios or manually analyzing device interactions, the system uses software-based simulation to automatically model and predict failures, making failure preparation more accessible without requiring complex manual procedures
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AI summary
Aspects of this technical solution can include receiving, at a controller device integrated with an electrical device and via a communication interface corresponding to a first simulated route and a second simulated route of an electrical microgrid, a first instruction to simulate an input having a first electrical property via a first route including the electrical device and corresponding to the first simulated route, generating, in response to receiving the first instruction at the controller device, a second instruction to simulate an output having a second electrical property via a second route including the electrical device and corresponding to the second simulated route, and transmitting, from the controller device via the communication interface, the second instruction to simulate the output by the electrical device via the second route.