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Competitive advantage
- Expertise in developing centralized and distributed multi-agent control strategies for energy storage systems. This provides:
- Improved performance compared with decentralised control strategies
- Advantages in terms of robustness, scalability, security and flexibility over centralised control strategies
Impact
- Cooperative balancing can lead to the avoidance of costly power network upgrades and increase power-supply security.
Successful applications
- Development of centralised and multi-agent control strategies for distributed energy storage systems that:
- Are robust to communication network delays
- Allow state-of-charge balancing with no circulating currents
- Have plug-and-play capability
Capabilities and facilities
- One of the largest Real Time Digital Simulators (RTDS) in academic and research institutions globally. It allows:
- Real-time verification of algorithms and simulation of power networks together with accurate models of energy storage systems and power converters
- Hardware-in-the-loop simulation, which is the final step before field verification. This presents the opportunity for rapid research, development and verification neces