Load Control and Monitoring of a Microgrid through CAN Communication of DSpace

A microgrid using Control Area Network (CAN) communication is One of load control and monitoring. this paper is illustrated A three bus system consisting of a master controller setup and two slave setups is used to demonstrate the load control in a microgrid using CAN communication module in the DSpace hardware/software. The master setup consists of a three-phase generator model in MATLAB Simulink and the slave setups consist of two actual three-phase induction motors coupled to a DC generator. The model is built in MATLAB-Simulink software and is interfaced with the DSpace hardware/software I/P O/P Real-Time Interface (RTI) module which is used as an Analog to Digital (A/D) and Digital to Analog (D/A) converter. The graph plotted from the simulation result shows that for any change in any of the two loads, the terminal voltage is controlled. This paper explains how CAN communication can be useful in controlling and monitoring of a microgrid in real time. Simulation result of the controlled terminal voltage and the two-different loads is obtained.