Combined Research and Curriculum Development for Power Plant Intelligent Distributed Control

An NSF project, Combined Research and Curriculum Development for Power Pla: nt Intelligent Distributed Control, was conducted from 1992 to 1996, and ex panded to Power System Intelligent Coordinated Control project. Two new gra duate courses were developed for power plant control. The capstone Power Pl ant Intelligent Distributed Control course covers: 1) real-time large scale power plant simulations using UNIX network programming, 2) distributed imp lementation of advanced controls in an architecture of workstations and mic roprocessor-based controllers, and 3) intelligent controls using fuzzy logi c, neural network, and genetic algorithm. Along with the curriculum develop ment update, a summary of significant research activities is presented in o rder to provide a complete overview of the results of the projects.