MIT PicoGrid

The goal of this project is to develop controller firmware for inverter-based microgrids.

Test-Bed Configuration

The system diagram of the "PicoGrid" looks like:

The system under construction:

List of Components/Tools:

• TI C28379 microcontroller/TI CCS 6.0 IDE
• ST STEVAL-IHM028V2 2kW 3-phase IGBT inverters
• LabVIEW 14.0

Team

• Colm O'Rourke
• Matt Overlin

Publications

• P. Vorobev; P. H. Huang, M. Al Hosani, J. L. Kirtley, and K. Turitsyn, “High-Fidelity Model Order Reduction for Microgrids Stability Assessment,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2017 [link].
• P. Vorobev, P. H. Huang, M. Al Hosani, J. L.Kirtley, and K. Turitsyn, “Systematic Design of Virtual Component Method for Inverter-Based Microgrids,” 2017 IEEE 56th Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 2017 [link].
• P. H. Huang, P. Vorobev, M. Al Hosani, J. L.Kirtley, and K. Turitsyn, "Systematic Design of Virtual Component Method for Inverter-Based Microgrids," 2017 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Chicago, IL, 2017 [link].