Hardware in Loop (HIL) Testing of Energy Management Controller for Electric Vehicle integrated Microgrid

In this paper, an energy management (EM) controller capable of operating in real-time and its verification in Controller Hardware in Loop (CHIL) is proposed. A coordinated multi-agent system-based optimization scheme is developed for the energy management for EV integration. The real-time simulation testbed is developed with Typhoon HIL 602+ unit interfaced to RTDS. The Typhoon HIL unit emulates an EV and the RTDS mimics the grid. The EM controller is developed in Java Agent Development Framework (JADE) and it is interfaced to the testbed through Ethernet (Socket) protocol. The results presented in this paper validate the real-time operation of the controller and the cost optimization at the workplace microgrid.