1. Experimental Validation of Peer-to-Peer Distributed Voltage Control System.
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Almasalma, Hamada, Claeys, Sander, Mikhaylov, Konstantin, Haapola, Jussi, Pouttu, Ari, and Deconinck, Geert
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VOLTAGE control , *PEER-to-peer architecture (Computer networks) , *CHEMICAL decomposition , *ENERGY consumption , *INTERVAL analysis - Abstract
This paper presents experimental validation of a distributed optimization-based voltage control system. The dual-decomposition method is used in this paper to solve the voltage optimization problem in a fully distributed way. Device-to-device communication is implemented to enable peer-to-peer data exchange between agents of the proposed voltage control system. The paper presents the design, development and hardware setup of a laboratory-based testbed used to validate the performance of the proposed dual-decomposition-based peer-to-peer voltage control. The architecture of the setup consists of four layers: microgrid, control, communication, and monitoring. The key question motivating this research was whether distributed voltage control systems are a technically effective alternative to centralized ones. The results discussed in this paper show that distributed voltage control systems can indeed provide satisfactory regulation of the voltage profiles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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