A Hardware-in-the-Loop Platform for Testing Networked Controllers for Microgrids

The paper presents a Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) platform for testing and evaluating networked control algorithms for microgrid applications. The developed platform supports the testing of control approaches with high communication bandwidth requirement and includes real-time simulation and emulation of both power and communication grids. The platform operability is demonstrated using a one-zone Medium Voltage DC (MVDC) shipboard power system with a distributed voltage control implemented using a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based control platform.