Microgrid Route Simulation for Power Failure Response
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional systems are unable to effectively assess or predict interactions between electrical elements in microgrids, making it difficult to maintain power delivery capability during external shocks and failures.
Innovation Solution
A simulation architecture that simulates the operation of devices in a microgrid system via a communication interface, allowing for the simulation of power inputs and outputs through a model corresponding to power delivery devices, and includes a method to configure and transmit instructions for simulating device operations based on their type and electrical properties.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional systems are used to monitor power delivery devices, then system simplicity is maintained, but the ability to assess and predict interactions between electrical elements is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates virtual copies (digital twins) of power delivery devices and their routes within a simulation architecture. These virtual representations allow assessment and prediction of device interactions without affecting the physical system, resolving the contradiction by enabling advanced analysis through copying rather than direct manipulation of complex physical interactions
Solution Approach 2:
The simulation architecture acts as an intermediary between the physical power delivery system and the analysis process. By introducing this intermediate simulation layer, the system can assess and predict device interactions without requiring direct access to or modification of the complex physical system, thereby improving reliability while managing complexity through abstraction
2Reliability
If simulation of device operations is implemented, then power delivery capability during failures is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The simulation architecture performs preliminary actions by pre-assessing and predicting device interactions and failure scenarios before they occur in the physical system. This allows the system to prepare contingency plans and understand potential failure modes, improving power delivery capability during actual failures while containing complexity within the simulation environment
Solution Approach 2:
By creating virtual replicas of power delivery devices and failure scenarios, the system can test and validate power delivery strategies without risking the actual physical system. This copying approach enables improved reliability through thorough testing while isolating complexity to the virtual simulation domain
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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.