Design of experiments aided holistic testing of cyber-physical energy systems
This addresses validation issues for researchers and practitioners in energy systems, but it is incremental as it builds on existing testing procedures.
The paper tackles the challenge of validating cyber-physical energy systems by proposing a structured guideline for applying design of experiments in holistic testing, providing a general workflow and a practical example to aid domain experts.
The complex and often safety-critical nature of cyber-physical energy systems makes validation a key challenge in facilitating the energy transition, especially when it comes to the testing on system level. Reliable and reproducible validation experiments can be guided by the concept of design of experiments, which is, however, so far not fully adopted by researchers. This paper suggests a structured guideline for design of experiments application within the holistic testing procedure suggested by the European ERIGrid project. In this paper, a general workflow as well as a practical example are provided with the aim to give domain experts a basic understanding of design of experiments compliant testing.