Skill-Based Engineering for the Description and Mapping of Smart Grid Applications

Abstract

This paper introduces an innovative approach for the description and mapping of applications in the smart grid domain. By utilizing a skill-based engineering approach, not only flexibility and changeability will increase, but also the need for describing the same application multiple times for different grids decays. As a first use-case, Fault Location, Isolation, and Service Restauration (FLISR) as an example application and a real-world grid in Vietnam have been chosen. By showing how this novel approach could be applied to these two entities, its potential is demonstrated. The IEC 61850-based approach uses a two-step procedure for the mapping. After defining the application's requirements, a mapping algorithm can check if the application can be deployed to a specific grid. In the second step, the actual mapping is described to deploy the application to the devices in the field automatically. Having the requirement description, a recommender system can suggest possible adaptions to the grid in case the check fails.