Hycon2 Benchmark: Power Network System
Provides a standardized testbed for comparing control schemes in power systems, but is incremental as it only offers baseline results.
The paper presents a benchmark for testing decentralized/distributed control methods on Automatic Generation Control in power networks, providing centralized MPC performance baselines and simulation software.
As a benchmark exercise for testing software and methods developed in Hycon2 for decentralized and distributed control, we address the problem of designing the Automatic Generation Control (AGC) layer in power network systems. In particular, we present three different scenarios and discuss performance levels that can be reached using Centralized Model Predictive Control (MPC). These results can be used as a milestone for comparing the performance of alternative control schemes. Matlab software for simulating the scenarios is also provided in an accompanying file.