CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT FOR ENERGY APPLICATIONS

Published

June 28, 2017

Author(s)

Thomas P. Roth, Yuyin Song, Martin J. Burns, Himanshu Neema, William Emfinger, Janos Sztipanovits

Abstract

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are smart systems that consist of highly interconnected networks of physical and computational components. The tight integration of a wide range of heterogeneous components enables new functionality and quality of life improvements in critical infrastructures such as smart cities, intelligent buildings, and smart energy systems. One approach to study CPS uses both simulations and hardware-in-theloop (HIL) to test the physical dynamics of hardware in a controlled environment. However, because CPS experiment design may involve domain experts from multiple disciplines who use different simulation tool suites, it can be a challenge to integrate the heterogeneous simulation languages and hardware interfaces into a single HIL simulation. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is working on the development of a universal CPS environment for federation (UCEF) that can be used to design and run experiments that incorporate heterogeneous physical and computational resources over a wide geographic area. This development environment uses the High Level Architecture (HLA), which the Department of Defense has advocated for co-simulation in the field of distributed simulations, to enable communication between hardware and different simulation languages such as Simulink and LabVIEW. This paper provides an overview of UCEF and motivates how the environment could be used to develop energy applications using an illustrative example of an emulated heat pump system.

Proceedings Title

2017 Proceedings of the ASME 2017 11th International Conference on Energy Sustainability (ES2017)

Conference Dates

June 26-30, 2017

Conference Location

Charlotte, NC

Conference Title

2017 11th International Conference on Energy Sustainability (ES2017)

Pub Type

Conferences

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Keywords

high level architecture, hardware-in-the-loop, cyber-physical system

Citation

Roth, T. , Song, Y. , Burns, M. , Neema, H. , Emfinger, W. and Sztipanovits, J. (2017), CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT FOR ENERGY APPLICATIONS, 2017 Proceedings of the ASME 2017 11th International Conference on Energy Sustainability (ES2017), Charlotte, NC, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=922852 (Accessed February 19, 2025)