Webinar | Part 3 | Smart Inverter Development and Testing: New Toolbox Release | OPAL-RT Learning Journey

In this webinar, learn about OPAL-RT's Smart Inverter Control Toolbox, a MATLAB-Simulink control and protection system toolbox developed based on the requirements of IEEE Std. 1547‐2018. It includes current controllers, power controllers, protection functions, and certain configurable grid support functions, such as CPF, Volt-Var and Droop. The toolbox allows users to quickly perform Rapid Control Prototyping (RCP) of smart inverter controllers with their Real-Time Simulator. When performing RCP, the simulator acts as the controller and is interfaced to a real power converter. The Smart Inverter Control Toolbox also allows for Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) tests involving real control and protection system hardware to be enriched with smart inverters represented digitally within the Real-Time Simulation. Interfacing between real-time digital smart inverter model and real devices is supported via communication protocols, such as Modbus TCP and IEC 61850 GOOSE. The toolbox can also be applied to offline MATLAB-Simulink simulations of smart inverter applications. -- Speaker: Dr. Nayeem Ninad Nayeem Ninad received his Ph. D. degree from Concordia University in Canada. He is working as Research Engineer in the Renewable Energy Integration group at the CanmetEERGY lab of Natural Resources Canada. He has been working over 10 years on various research projects related to power electronic converters, remote community microgrid, real-time simulation, and grid impact of inverter-based renewable integration. He is also currently the task leader of the DER Test Protocol Working group, which is a technical task of IEA ISGAN Annex 5 also known as SIRFN.