Experimental Validations of Time-Domain Voltage/Current Control: Electrical Correction of Faulty Transmission-Line Networks

This article is dedicated to experimentally validating the linear combination of the configuration field (LCCF) method in transmission-line (TL) networks. The LCCF is first modified to comply with some physical limitations encountered during experimentation and then tested to identify the temporal profile of voltage/current sources that would lead to specified voltage/current signals over a definite time interval at a few points of a TL network. In another experimental validation, when faults appear in some lines of these networks, the LCCF is also tested to bring an electrical correction (EC) that compensates for the effect of the potential faults regardless of the number, nature, and position. For this latter, soft and hard faults are considered. The LCCF method paves the way for the development of new instrumentation in generating and conditioning temporal signals.