Microgrid Testing and Demonstration Facilities at Different Scales
(a) A portable microgrid prototype
(b) A smart home microgrid
(c) A lab-scale 8-node microgrid testbed
(d) TTU 108-Converter SYNDEM Smart Grid Testbed (This is a recently commissioned large-scale energy
research facility with 108 physical reconfigurable, reprogrammable converters.)
Microgrid Testbed (old)
--- Battery
--- Generator
--- cRio-9074
--- Solar systems (Prototype I: low voltage, Prototype II: high voltage)
--- Texas Instruments DC/AC inverters
--- Texas Instruments DC/DC converters
--- 400W PMSM for Wind Turbine Simulator
--- Texas Instruments High Voltage Motor Control Kit
Microgrid Diorama
Robots
--- Quadrotors (AscTec Hummingbird, DJI Pjantom, Invertix 400 3D quadrotor, BLADE Nano QX)
--- Quanser Qbots
--- Adept mobilerobots robots
--- Quanser Rotary Servo Base Unit
MEMS
--- Physik Instrumente PZT-driven nanopositoning systems
Control Systems
--- dSPACE
--- National Instruments myRIO
--- SYNDEM Smart Grid Research and Education Kit
Others
--- DC sources
--- Oscilloscopes