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Latency-Robust Adaptive Control for Centralized Microgrids
November 5, 2025
Latency, packet loss, and link failures can significantly affect the stability of secondary control in microgrids. This work introduces a novel adaptive control approach for regulating grid power flow at the point of common coupling (PCC) in centralized microgrids, ensuring stable operation even under variable latency conditions. The method was validated using a controller Hardware-in-the-Loop (C-HIL) setup…
Before the Blades Turn: Real-Time Wind Turbine Simulation
August 20, 2025
Not only are wind turbines getting larger, but their control software is becoming increasingly complex, managing everything from grid compliance to fault ride-through requirements. Typhoon HIL’s real-time simulation and HIL testing help developers validate every part—before a turbine ever spins—ensuring better performance, higher efficiency, and lower risk. Learn more about this topic in our blog arti…
Mastering Microgrid Control Testing: Innovations for a Sustainable Future
December 13, 2024
Microgrids and distributed energy resources are critical to a sustainable energy future, but their complexity demands advanced control strategies and rigorous testing. Explore how cutting-edge HIL simulation tools and hybrid control approaches are simplifying microgrid management, improving stability, and enabling seamless integration of renewable energy sources for a greener tomorrow. Read the full blog to…
ARPA-E: Distributed Grid Control of Flexible Loads and DERs
May 27, 2021
The growing adoption of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) like photovoltaic systems, battery energy storage, and fuel cells has heightened the need for effective coordination within the power grid. Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), in collaboration with Typhoon HIL and Missouri S&T, are addressing this challenge by developing and testing a distributed control architec…
3 Solutions to Optimize DERs for Frequency Regulation in Microgrids
May 3, 2018
Frequency regulation is currently provided by large individual resources, such as coal plants and gas turbines. There is growing interest in utilizing the power flexibility of DERs in microgrids for providing frequency regulation. Researchers, funded by ARPA-E, from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) have developed a control framework for a microgrid that coordinates DERs for frequency regulation…
Distributed Microgrid Controls and Communication
April 7, 2018
This blog article delves into the evolution from centralized to distributed microgrid control architectures, highlighting the innovative work by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Funded by ARPA-E, these researchers have developed a distributed controller architecture that uses multiple microcontrollers or nodes to communicate and achieve consensus, eliminating the need fo…
Sandia National Laboratory Industry Spotlight with Jay Johnson
March 5, 2018
Sandia National Laboratories, the largest U.S. Department of Energy national lab, plays a pivotal role in supporting inverter development and testing protocols for standards organizations and distributed energy resource (DER) vendors. Jay Johnson, a principal member of the technical staff at Sandia, discusses his research on a SunSpec-Compliant Smart Grid Controller and the innovative use of Controller Har…
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