Combined research and curriculum development for power plant intelligent distributed control

Author

Lee, Kwang Y. ; Edwards, Robert M. ; Hiyama, Takashi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, USA

Volume

14

Issue

3

fYear

1999

fDate

9/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

817

Lastpage

823

Abstract

An NSF project, combined research and curriculum development for power plant intelligent distributed control, was conducted from 1992 to 1996, and expanded to a power system intelligent coordinated control project. Two new graduate courses were developed for power plant control. The capstone power plant intelligent distributed control course covers: (1) real-time large scale power plant simulations using UNIX network programming; (2) distributed implementation of advanced controls in an architecture of workstations and microprocessor-based controllers; and (3) intelligent controls using fuzzy logic, neural networks and genetic algorithms. Along with the curriculum development update, a summary of significant research activities is presented in order to provide a complete overview of the results of the projects

Keywords

control engineering education; distributed control; educational courses; intelligent control; power engineering education; power station control; NSF project; UNIX network programming; USA; capstone course; combined research/curriculum development; distributed implementation; fuzzy logic; genetic algorithms; microprocessor-based controllers; neural network; power plant intelligent distributed control; real-time large scale power plant simulations; research activities; universities; workstations; Control systems; Curriculum development; Distributed control; Intelligent control; Intelligent networks; Intelligent systems; Power generation; Power system control; Power system simulation; Power systems;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Energy Conversion, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8969

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/60.790958

Filename

790958