Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Inria-EDF Strategic action MS4SG

Participants : Vincent Chevrier, Julien Vaubourg.

Laurent Ciarletta and Yannick Presse (Madynes team, LORIA) are external collaborators.

The MS4SG (multi-simulation for smart grids) project is granted as a strategic action between Inria and EDF. This project is joint between the Inria teams Madynes and MAIA, and EDF R&D.

Smart grids are electric supply grids endowed with smart capabilities because of the use of information and communication technologies. This perspective of smart grids corresponds to new challenges ; in particular one must re-think the way electricity is supplied to customers and the power supply network is regulated.

The simulation approach can deal with the supervision and regulation of these systems. Such an approach implies to integrate simulators coming from different domains: electrical networks, communication networks and information systems. As these domains can influence each other, smart grids can be considered as a kind of complex system and we are faced with multi-modeling and multi-simulation issues; in particular we must deal with the fact that the models used in the different simulators are not of the same kind (heterogeneous simulations) and that we must link and re-use existing simulators that were designed to work alone on their own.

The aim of the project is to provide primitives based on AA4MM in order to enable the multi-modeling and the multi-simulation of smart grids.