Renewable energy sources are one key enabler to decrease greenhouse gas emissions
and to cope with the anthropogenic climate change. Their intermittent behavior and limited …

This research addresses a significant gap in power system protection methodologies by
developing a dedicated simulation environment that supports the communication of …

This paper presents the analysis and simulation of the performance of fault location and
isolation (FLI) in an automated power distribution feeder. This system is composed of two …

The emerging LED technology enables intelligent street lighting that is based on sensing
individual vehicles and dimming street lights accordingly. The potential energy savings are …

The smart grid is a new paradigm that aims to modernize the legacy power grid. It is based
on the integration of ICT technologies, embedded system, sensors, renewable energy and …

IEC 61499 is a reference architecture for constructing Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems
(ICPS). However, current function block development environments only provide limited fault …

This paper presents an implementation of Plug-and-Play for the FREEDM system with
IEC61499 function blocks. The FREEDM system is the envisioned next generation power …

The paper proposes a novel computer-aided model-based system engineering process for
Smart Gird applications. The process is supported by the SysGrid tool that plays the roles of …

Abstract The so called Smart Grid is said to be distributed in nature with an accompanying
control architecture which is made up of a heterogeneous network of controllers …

This paper presents an introductory step in the automatic generation of distributed control
software for power distribution automation systems based on Ontology Driven Engineering …