VILLASnode

This is VILLASnode, a gateway for processing and forwardning simulation data between real-time simulators. VILLASnode is a client/server application to connect simulation equipment and software such as:

• OPAL-RT RT-LAB,
• RTDS GTFPGA cards,
• RTDS GTWIF cards,
• Simulink,
• LabView,
• and FPGA models

by using protcols such as:

• IEEE 802.2 Ethernet / IP / UDP,
• ZeroMQ & nanomsg,
• MQTT & AMQP
• WebSockets
• Shared Memory
• Files
• IEC 61850 Sampled Values / GOOSE
• Analog/Digital IO via Comedi drivers
• Infiniband (ibverbs)

It's designed with a focus on very low latency to achieve real-time exchange of simulation data. VILLASnode is used in distributed- and co-simulation scenarios and developed for the field of power grid simulation at the EON Energy Research Center in Aachen, Germany.

Documentation

User documentation is available here: https://villas.fein-aachen.org/docs/

License

This project is released under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license.

We kindly ask all academic publications employing components of VILLASframework to cite one of the following papers:

• A. Monti et al., "A Global Real-Time Superlab: Enabling High Penetration of Power Electronics in the Electric Grid," in IEEE Power Electronics Magazine, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 35-44, Sept. 2018.
• S. Vogel, M. Mirz, L. Razik and A. Monti, "An open solution for next-generation real-time power system simulation," 2017 IEEE Conference on Energy Internet and Energy System Integration (EI2), Beijing, 2017, pp. 1-6.

For other licensing options please consult Prof. Antonello Monti.

• SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 OPAL-RT Germany GmbH
• SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

Contact

• Steffen Vogel post@steffenvogel.de
• Marija Stevic mstevic@eonerc.rwth-aachen.de

Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems (ACS)
EON Energy Research Center (EONERC)
RWTH University Aachen, Germany