Hardware-in-the-loop Wide Area Monitoring Protection and Control Using Software based PMU’s Model

With the growth of power system both in terms of geographical as well as technological advancement, it requires tools for dealing with system-wide disturbances that often cause widespread blackouts in power system networks. When any kind of fault or major disturbance occurs, protection and control measures play the vital role to prevent further degradation of the system, restore the system back to a normal state. Continuous technological innovation in information and communication technology, various kind of sensors and measurement instrument principle in general have promoted the advent of phasor measurement units (PMU). This paper describes the modeling and testing of phasor measurement units through Hardware in the loop implmementation with Simulink and the combination of two powerful microcontroller. Since PMU are costly device so module based analysis is not desired. That’s why software based analysis are appreciable. These has been done through MATLAB and results are analyzed.

Keywords:

Global positioning system (GPS) , Hardware-in-the-loop system (HIL) , Phasor measurement units (PMUs) , Smart grid , Wide area measurement system (WAMS)