Complete List of Changes in ARTEMiS 7.7.4

• Compatibility with RT-LAB 2023.2

New Features

• Added Microgrid Simulink Library (microGridTestbedLibrary) with all the typical Distributed Energy Resources (DER’s) and control functions present in microgrids.
  

  • The following list shows the components of the library:

    • Active Power Controller

    • Reactive Power Controller

    • Curtailment Power Controller

    • Load Management Controller

    • Battery Energy Storage System

    • Islanded Controller

    • Diesel Generator System

    • BESS Power Reference Compensation

    • Wind Turbine System

    • Photovoltaic System

• Added support for MATLAB version R2022b and R2023a

• Added a Voltage-Behind Reactance Synchronous Machine (VBR-SM) simulink block example

Enhancements & Bug Fixes

• Smart Inverter Library : fixed bug in Secondary control block 

• Improved license check and license error messages 

• Fixed marti_line and wideband lines for OPAL-RTLinux 

• Fixed a compatibility issue during compilation of some TSB models 

• Corrected the Voltage-Behind Reactance Synchronous Machine (VBR-SM) simulink block documentation

• SSN code optimized to run offline correctly, with speed gain in line with theoretical expectations

• Fixed SPS phasor simulation mode running with ARTEMiS installed

Deprecation and Removals

• Matlab/Simulink R2018A, R2019A, R2019B : end of support

Complete List of Changes in ARTEMiS 7.7.3

• Compatibility with RT-LAB 2023.1

New Features

• New Smart Inverter Control Simulink Toolbox (IEEE Std. 1547‐2018) to perform Rapid Control Prototyping (RCP) of smart inverter

  controllers 

  controllers 

• New SSN Nodal Inverter models. These blocks replace IVIC inverter blocks. Demos upgraded.
  

• New ARTEMiS Variable PQ Load with Remote Calculation blocks. Improves the speed of large distribution grid demo by a factor 2 and more.

• Added support for MATLAB version R2022a

Enhancements & Bug Fixes

• Better performance on the new OPAL-RT hardware platforms ((Intel Xeon Scalable Processor based) by using vector processor instructions (AVX).

• Upgraded Switched Reluctance Motor model.

• 2-level TSB model compilation error (blob error) now fixed.

• Updated version of ssn_TrainTractionDrive example model (fixed compilation error) and AD_DRIVE06 example models

• Fixed simulation resetting automatically when enabling SSN

Known issues

• FD-line (Marti-type) 2nd generation model does not compile correctly (Ref. SOLVTT-451). 

Deprecation and Removals

• Matlab/Simulink R2015B, R2016A, R2016B, R2017A, R2017B : end of support

Complete List of Changes in ARTEMiS 7.7.2

• Compatibility with RT-LAB 2022.1

New Features

• New SSN Spatial-Harmonic-PMSM model compatible with JMAG and Maxwell data formats. The model is snubber-free.
  

• New SSN  '1-port' (grounded) or '2-port' Parallel-RLC and Series-RLC blocks. Port number are user selectable. SSN RLC blocks allow for on-line parameter modifications.

• New Smart Inverter library (beta)

• Steady-state initialization in SSN for source and linear parts.

Enhancements & Bug Fixes

• SSN-OLTC (v3) had a bug in code generation only. Fixed.

Complete List of Changes in ARTEMiS 7.7.1

• Compatibility with RT-LAB 2021.3

New Features

• New 5-level Neutral Point Clamped TSB-RD model and demo.

• New Virtual Educational Laboratory demo page. Included laboratories: synchronous machine and induction machine.

• New Machine models with constant admittance matrix. Can accelerate simulation by allowing prefactorization of the SSN admittance matrix.

Enhancements & Bug Fixes

• All SSN custom models (Machines, RLC, etc...) are now fully linked to the library and runnable in this mode.

• All SSN synchronous machine model optimization on the inductance inverse, now made separately in the d and q axes.

• ArtEvents TSDOUT bug resolved: ports numbers were not in order (beta).

Complete List of Changes in ARTEMiS 7.7.0

• Compatibility with RT-LAB 2021.2

New Features

• Support of MATLAB versions R2020a and R2020b.

Enhancements & Bug Fixes

• Correction to the SSN-PMSM motor model: works correctly now with the delayed speed term option.

• Correction to the Banshee demo: added missing files required for execution in Simulink.

• Correction to the standard SPS IGBT model: now works correctly in ARTEMiS.

• ArtEvents PWM block now includes a phase shift option on the duty cycle for application with cascaded inverters with phase shifted carriers. (Beta)

• New demo with 5-level NPC inverter using TSB-RD. Model name: TSB_RD_5levelNPC_Drive.slx (Beta)

• Introductory Help page for the Opal-RT Machine Courseware.

• Multirate stubline parameter modification for easier parametrization.

• SSN-OLTC transformer parameter modification for easier parametrization.