ng.Grace is the revolutionary approach to fully automated design of digital substation. The software is based on knowledge base technologies, ontology, and inference mechanisms as well as some other AI techniques. This approach makes CAD system able to automatically synthesize an overall system architecture of the digital substation Protection Automation and Control System (PACS) or Digital Substation Automation System (DSAS) considering requirements on functionality, reliability and costs.
A human engineer needs just to enter the main scheme of a substation or to import this scheme using SSD or CIM files.
Then ng.Grace starts to work. It does:
The design of electrical substations is too complex. Design steps include choosing a digital substation PACS overall architecture, creating a local area networks, defining a set of protection and automation IEDs and their functions, defining a set of signals, defining a set of MUs, and creating a set of special files in accordance with IEC 61850 (SCD, CID and others).
Modern IT and AI techniques provide tools to automate many of described steps. These techniques can reduce the amount of manual labor, the time it takes to complete design, and the probability of errors caused by the human factor.
The use of artificial intelligence methods makes it possible to automatically create design documentation for the PACS of digital substation.
However, designing is a creative and analytical process. The presented technology is based on specialized software and algorithms that can reproduce creative thinking of a human.
Director of the MPEI NTI Centre Voloshin A.A. at Kaspersky Industrial Cybersecurity Conference 2020
The PACS design is based on the regulatory requirements and experience of the designer. Digitalization increases burden on the designer of electrical substations. A lot of new options appear due to flexibility of digital solutions. A designer can`t even observe all basic alternatives and therefore can’t create an optimal solution matching different requirements.
Modern substations become Smart Digital Substation due to IEC 61850. The service life of equipment in the electric power industry is long, so there are a lot of old substations now. The reconstruction era has been started all over the world with new digital technologies.
Power industry needs an opportunity to have a lot of Digital PACS quickly and high quality with proven reliability and minimum costs. Existing CAD solutions can`t provide that.
An example of a digital substation
PACS architecture
An example of a digital substation PACS
functional block diagram(a small part)
IED configurator comparison is shown below:
Not all IED configurators can develop functional block diagrams or create digital twins.
There is no product on the market that implements fully automated design process of digital substation.
Our software, ng.Grace, offers a fully automated design cycle.
The new technology based on AI techniques was developed to solve the abovementioned problems. Developed technology contains formalized regulatory requirements and implements the creative process of PACS architecture design.
A knowledge base system consists of a knowledge base that represents facts about the world and an inference engine that can reason about those facts and use rules and other forms of logic to deduce new facts or highlight inconsistencies.
Ontology contains a representation, formal naming and definition of the categories, properties and relations between the concepts, data and entities that represent one, many or all domains of discourse.
A knowledge base is a formalization of a subject area and its presentation in the form of a semantic network, implemented by logical conclusions and meaningful information processing. It is an information model of the field of knowledge, which has the form of a directed graph, the vertices of which correspond to objects of the domain, and arcs (edges) define the relation between them. The structure of such a graph corresponds to a triplet, which is a form of data representation in ontologies. Ontologies are the framework of the knowledge base and create a basis for describing the basic concepts of the subject area, which is necessary for the full functioning of the system. Ontology represents the formalization of a certain field of knowledge using a conceptual scheme.
The first one (Design rules KB) is used for storing and processing PACS requirements including regulatory documentation, best practices, etc. The second one (Substation KB) represents primary and secondary substation equipment, PACS functions, etc.
The result of the design process is represented by the files:
ng.Grace design process consists
of the following steps:
ng.Grace performs a full cycle from the main substation scheme to the PACS architecture and algorithms.
* is done by the conventional CAD systems
With the arrival of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Industry 4.0, and with the growing demand for electricity the global digital substation market has been growing phenomenally in recent years. This trend is associated with an increase in demand for the replacement of the traditional substation infrastructure, growing demand for renewable energy projects, and the rising need for secure electrical networks across several industrial, commercial, utility and residential applications.
Sourse:
Investor Presentation, Secondary Literature, Expert Interviews and “MarketsandMarkets” Analysis
Sourse:
Investor Presentation, Secondary Literature, Expert Interviews and “MarketsandMarkets” Analysis
Our team consists of the MPEI NTI Centre and SmartEPS LLC. We have experience in designing substations 35 kV – 750 kV based on different vendors: ABB, Siemens, and others.
The amount of designed substations is more than 100.
Our team has developed and launched three CAD systems for designers of digital substations.
Voloshin Alexander
Ph.D
Director of the MPEI NTI Centre
Head of the PAC Department
Phone: + 7 (926) 596-78-22
Email: voloshin.aa@yandex.ru
Voloshin Evgeny
Head of the R&D Department
Phone: + 7 (926) 401-07-18
Email: voloshin.evgeniy@yandex.ru
Lebedev Andrey
Ph.D
Leading research scientist
R&D Department
Phone: +7 (906) 729 92 28
Email: lebedev.anan@yandex.ru
Gracheva Natalya
Engineer
R&D Department
Research assistant
PAC Department
Phone: + 7 (925) 286-13-08
Email: grach.np@gmail.com
The presented product ng.Grace implements the concepts of generative design and AI based CAD systems. The software corresponds to IEC 61850 standard. Manual labor is limited to substation schema input. The solution provides economical vs reliability goals and optimal PACS architecture.
Optimal design is carried out by modern artificial intelligence techniques and optimization algorithms.
The design rules KB can be adjusted to local regulations and preferred design practices.
The product is suitable for designing PACS not only for new substations but also for modernization existing PACS.
R&D is completed
First software release December 2020
nti@mpei.ru
info@smarteps.ru
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Высшее техническое, кандидат технических наук, закончил бизнес школу MBA по специализации «Стратегический менеджмент».
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