An Original Smart-Grids Test Bed to Teach Feeder Automation Functions in a Distribution Grid to the PESGM2019 Submission Site
Résumé
This paper proposes the description of an original
smart-grids test bed aimed at teaching novel feeder automation
functions to students from both university and industry origins.
With this test bed, a lab class proposes to students, first, to develop
feeder automation functions using scientific software and,
then, to experiment by practically testing them on an emulated
distribution grid platform, called PREDIS. This platform includes
real medium-voltage reduced-scale loads, generators, and a supervisory
control and data acquisition system. The presented lab class
is part of a dedicated complete pedagogic module with lectures
and experiments. Through the development, the tests and the deployments
of their own solutions in an actual distribution grid, the
students learn by doing from theory to practice the complete chain
of smart-grids solutions: from the electrical to the communication
layers.