Masters Theses

Tamal Paul

Abstract

"The amalgamation and coordination between computational processes and physical components represent the very basis of cyber-physical systems. A diverse range of CPS challenges had been addressed through numerous workshops and conferences over the past decade. Finding a common semantic among these diverse components which promotes system synthesis, verification and monitoring is a significant challenge in the cyber-physical research domain. Computational correctness, network timing and frequency response are system aspects that conspire to impede design, verification and monitoring. The objective of cyber-physical research is to unify these diverse aspects by developing common semantics that span each aspect of a CPS. The work of this thesis revolves around the design of a typical smart grid-type system with three PV sources built with PSCADʼ. A major amount of effort in this thesis had been focused on studying the system behavior in terms of stability when subjected to load fluctuations from the PV side. The stability had been primarily reflected in the frequency of the generator of the system. The concept of droop control had been analyzed and the parameterization of the droop constant in the shape of an invariant forms an essential part of the thesis as it predicts system behavior and also guides the system within its stable restraints. As an extension of a relationship between stability and frequency, the present study goes one step ahead in describing the sojourn of the system from stability to instability by doing an analysis with the help of tools called Lyapunov-like functions. Lyapunov-like functions are, for switched systems, a class of functions that are used to measure the stability for non linear systems. The use of Lyapunov-like functions to judge the stability of this system had been tested and discussed in detail in this thesis and simulation results provided"--Abstract, page iii.

Advisor(s)

Kimball, Jonathan W.

Committee Member(s)

Chowdhury, Badrul H.
Crow, Mariesa

Department(s)

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Degree Name

M.S. in Electrical Engineering

Sponsor(s)

Missouri University of Science and Technology. Energy Research Development Center
Missouri University of Science and Technology. Intelligent Systems Center

Research Center/Lab(s)

Intelligent Systems Center

Publisher

Missouri University of Science and Technology

Publication Date

Spring 2012

Pagination

ix, 49 pages

Note about bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 37-40).

Rights

© 2012 Tamal Paul, All rights reserved.

Document Type

Thesis - Open Access

File Type

text

Language

English

Subject Headings

Computer systemsDistributed parameter systemsIntelligent agents (Computer software)Lyapunov functions

Thesis Number

T 9979

Print OCLC #

815645411

Electronic OCLC #

786034646

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