Especificação arquitetural do simulador SimuLIHM e desenvolvimento de módulo de comunicação com sistemas supervisórios.

Abstract

Human errors are a major source of error in electrical systems operation, causing the electricity companies to increasingly invested in the training of its operators. Among the various techniques used in operator training, there is the increasing use of simulators that allow operators to submit to critical scenarios assessing their ability to solve these situations. In this context the LIHM (Laboratory of Human-Machine Interface) of the Federal University of Campina Grande developed a simulator training tool -SimuLIHM. With this tool operators are subject to preconfigured training scenarios, and train in a virtual environment with great similarity to real environment experienced in operating companies. To achieve such a degree of realism, virtual environment should enable the interaction of operators with the power plant both through panels and through supervisory systems screens. Given the complexity achieved by the tool developed in LIHM, its maintenance and evolution is hampered by the absence of a detailed architectural specification. In addition, its current version is restricted to the representation of a single supervisory system, the InTouch. To minimize these problems, the following activities were carried out during this project: the specification in UML (Unified Modeling Language) of SimuLIHM software architecture and implementation of a communication module that facilitates the integration of this simulator to different supervisory systems, as well as implementation of a communication driver with the OPC protocol, a widely accepted communications standard in industry due to the high level of interoperability provided. This text describes the documentation and the modules built throughout the work.