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Cai Deyu Associate Researcher School of Electrical Engineering
Ding Lei Professor School of Electrical Engineering
Wang Xiaohui Associate Professor School of Electrical Engineering
Zhang Wen Professor School of Electrical Engineering
Wang Hongtao Professor School of Electrical Engineering

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The refined real-time simulation system DIG-Wind developed by our group integrates fluid, mechanical and electrical modeling with heterogeneous acceleration on GPU, CPU and FPGA, forming an integrated platform covering modeling, simulation, monitoring and analysis. For fluids, GPU parallel computing characterizes single-turbine wakes and the superposition effects among multiple turbines; for mechanics, Kane's dynamic equations are solved efficiently on the CPU to analyze structural vibration and electromechanical coupling; for electrics, FPGA-accelerated electromagnetic transient solving meets microsecond-level real-time requirements. The system is supported by host-computer and monitoring software covering topology modeling, real-time control and panoramic monitoring, providing support for digital verification of wind farms.

The Integrated Energy Digital Management & Control System developed by our group is an integrated platform for the coordinated operation of sources, grids, loads and storage in industrial parks. Its core functions include unified modeling of electricity, heat, cooling and gas, full-condition state sensing of equipment, lines and pipelines, dynamic carbon accounting with adaptively updated energy-carbon parameters, and cloud-edge collaborative optimal dispatch. It enables real-time monitoring, analysis and optimal control of energy flows, carbon flows and equipment operating states, shifting park energy management from passive response to active optimization and providing a replicable, scalable digital solution for the green and low-carbon transition of industrial parks.

Taking real-time wind speed, operating measurements, equipment aging indicators and updatable model parameters as inputs, the wind turbine digital twin platform builds a synchronous visualization interface for a reference turbine and its digital twin. The left side shows wind-speed input, aging detection, aging curves and operating measurements such as generator power, current and voltage; the center compares the 3D models of the reference and twin turbines and provides curve comparison of operating and twin data; the right side displays in real time the twin's operating status, model update time, synchronization rate and updatable parameters such as generator resistance, inductance, inertia coefficient and control parameters. The platform supports model-parameter calibration, operating-state monitoring, aging assessment, simulation comparison and intelligent O&M decision-making.

Aimed at control verification, grid-connection characteristic analysis and broadband stability research, the wind turbine hardware-in-the-loop test and simulation platform reproduces the typical operating characteristics of DFIG and direct-drive turbines in a laboratory environment, avoiding uncontrollable field wind speeds, black-box control systems, high equipment power ratings and high commissioning risks. The platform consists of a wind farm simulator, excitation converter, back-to-back motor, DFIG/direct-drive generator, commercial converter, rapid prototyping controller, Chroma grid simulator and sampling system. The wind farm simulator models wind speed and aerodynamic characteristics based on OpenFAST, the back-to-back motor emulates the mechanical input, and the converter realizes power conversion and grid-connection control. The platform provides aerodynamic-mechanical-electrical coupling reproduction, open control and broadband impedance measurement, supporting wind farm simulation, control-strategy verification, fault ride-through, impedance testing and grid-connection stability analysis.

Aimed at the grid-connection operation and stability analysis of renewable equipment such as wind power, PV, energy storage and SVG, the flexible multi-converter networking test platform focuses on control verification, impedance measurement and stability testing with multiple parallel converters. It consists of bidirectional programmable DC sources, commercial converters, filters and line modules, a grid-connection transformer, a grid simulator, sampling units, interface modules, a frequency response analyzer and interfaces to real-time controllers such as RTDS and RT-Lab, and can emulate different DC energy inputs, AC topologies, line impedances and grid strengths. With flexible networking, open control and broadband impedance measurement capabilities, it supports single-converter grid connection, multi-converter parallel operation, weak-grid access, hardware-controller-in-the-loop testing and stability analysis, supporting research on the parallel-operation mechanisms of multiple devices in renewable power plants, broadband oscillation suppression and stable control strategies.

Large-Scale Wind Farm Refined Real-Time Simulation & Digital Twin System Integrated Energy Digital Management & Control System RTLab Grid Simulator Flexible Multi-Converter Networking Test Platform / Security & Stability Cloud-Edge Collaboration Platform 10 kW Full-Power Converter 10 kW DFIG Converter Back-to-Back Motor Grid-Connection Test Platform DFIG Wind Turbine Model DFIG

Platform Overview:Addressing core pain points in renewable grid connection, microgrids and new-type power systems - such as difficult coordinated control of multiple devices, insufficient scenario adaptability and unverified grid-connection stability - our group has developed a flexible multi-converter networking test platform applicable to wind farms, PV, energy storage, SVG and other scenarios; the programmable DC source emulates a direct-drive turbine and its machine-side converter, and the multi-converter and AC line modules can be used for grid-connection testing of AC collection systems in wind farms; together with programmable PV and energy storage sources, they can be used to test the corresponding multi-machine systems. The platform can accurately emulate grid disturbances such as voltage sags, frequency fluctuations and power impacts, as well as renewable output fluctuations caused by extreme weather (e.g. gusts and shading), verifying the transient response and fault ride-through capability of converter networking systems and providing a real test environment for control-algorithm optimization.