Abstract

This work presents the design process of an RT Box interface for control systems in micro-grid applications. The control card allows implementing different controls and communi-cation systems for microgrids in a physical environment, facilitating the development of robust control systems facing inherent adverse scenarios such as delays, loss of information packets, failures of partial or permanent communication and noise in signal overflows, among others. In addition, it permits the generation of programming resources and behav-ioral antecedents, helpful information for future users of the control card interface. The Plecs RT Box is a device that will enable a real-time simulation of different power electron-ics applications as can be a microgrid system. The built-in control card in this project is suitable as a complementary element of the RT Box, extending the capacity of this device to emulate a microgrid but testing real communication protocol between the microcon-trollers that compose each of the distributed generation units (DGU). Tests were conducted to probe the communication protocols working correctly in a microgrid context, recreating real application scenarios.(c) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).