EASy-RM
Protection And Control (PAC) systems are automation systems that are used in substations to protect and control the electrical infrastructure. PAC systems are typically coupled with hardware, i.e., hardware devices typically come with a pre-set number of functionalities. The tight coupling of the hardware and the software of the PAC systems means the existing PAC systems are inflexible (difficult to change the software functionality without changing the hardware) and tend to have a shorter.
The concept of FIH systems is to decouple the PAC software from the hardware, which allows software functionality to be allocated on hardware devices at any time without changing the hardware and can significantly prolong the life cycle of PAC systems. This introduces modularity and flexibility in PAC systems which does not current exist. In this project, we will investigate how the FIH automation system with IEC 61850 specifications and IEC 61499 implementation can be traced to its initial requirements through requirement tracing to ensure consistency and how to improve the maintainability of the implemented software and investigate how FIH PAC systems can be designed to be modular and re-usable based on the design principles of Abstraction Layered Architecture (ALA).
Expected Results
There are 2 main goals of the project:
Goal 1: Develop a framework for FIH PAC systems that enables requirement traceability and ensures consistency over the lifetime of the system by building a formal requirements repository for IEC 61850 requirements and achieve traceability through graph-theoretic methods.
Goal 2: Automate the certification of IEC 61499-based PAC software against IEC 61850 through architectural abstraction layering.
Project Period
July 2023 - July 2024
Main Financier
STINT
Project Participants
University of Vaasa (Leader), Auckland University of Technology
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