Engineering topics
Publications and source records attributed to Hu, Wan-Lin.
The Transactive Energy Service System (TESS) is a platform to design, deploy, and operate transactive energy systems in electric utility retail environments. TESS provides retail market clearing mechanisms for peer-to-peer trading of behind-the-meter distributed energy resources based on ramping, capacity, and storage prices.
The human operator is an integral part of a stable and safe power system. While there is increasing attention paid to automation improvements, the importance of understanding and training human operators may be understated. This paper discusses a project to enhance operator training programs by evaluating human performance relative to a reference operator model identified using optimal control theory. Along with establishing a simple computer-based operator workstation for future training purpose, this paper describes the optimal control response design methodology for a human-in-the-loop power system experiment. The overall system model is presented. An optimal controller synthesis methodology is applied to the model system and the optimal controller is designed. The performance of the optimal controller is then compared to human subject performance.