An Original Smart-Grids Test Bed to Teach Feeder Automation Functions in a Distribution Grid to the PESGM2019 Submission Site

International audienceThis paper proposes the description of an originalsmart-grids test bed aimed at teaching novel feeder automationfunctions to students from both university and industry origins.With this test bed, a lab class proposes to students, first, to developfeeder automation functions using scientific software and,then, to experiment by practically testing them on an emulateddistribution grid platform, called PREDIS. This platform includesreal medium-voltage reduced-scale loads, generators, and a supervisorycontrol and data acquisition system. The presented lab classis part of a dedicated complete pedagogic module with lecturesand experiments. Through the development, the tests and the deploymentsof their own solutions in an actual distribution grid, thestudents learn by doing from theory to practice the complete chainof smart-grids solutions: from the electrical to the communicationlayers