DC feeder voltage computing device, DC feeder voltage control system, and DC feeder voltage computation method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11208126-B2
Application number	US-201716603626-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 7, 2017
Priority date	Jun 7, 2017
Publication date	Dec 28, 2021
Grant date	Dec 28, 2021

Abstract

A DC feeder voltage computing device includes a model information storing unit, a run history information storing unit, and a voltage setting value computing unit. The model information storing unit stores model information. The run history information storing unit stores, on a per train basis, run history information that indicates locations and power situations of a plurality of trains that run in a DC-electrified section on or before a preceding day. The voltage setting value computing unit computes, on the basis of the model information and the run history information, a voltage setting value for controlling a substation voltage to cause an amount of power consumption in the DC-electrified section to satisfy a preset condition.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A direct current (DC) feeder voltage computing device for computing a substation voltage that is a voltage applied from a substation to a feeder line in a DC-electrified section of an electric railway system, the DC feeder voltage computing device comprising:
a model information storage to store model information including train model information including information for controlling an amount of regenerative power reduction in a train present in the DC-electrified section, feed network model information including location information on the substation, and substation model information including control information on the substation voltage;
a run history information storage to store, on a per train basis, run history information that indicates locations and power situations of a plurality of trains that run in the DC-electrified section on or before a preceding day; and
a voltage setting value calculator to compute, on a basis of the model information and the run history information, a voltage setting value for controlling the substation voltage to cause an amount of power consumption in the DC-electrified section to satisfy a preset condition.

2. The DC feeder voltage computing device according to claim 1 , wherein
the run history information storage stores situational information in association with the run history information, and the situational information indicating a running situation of the train, and
the voltage setting value calculator extracts, from the run history information storage, run history information associated with situational information indicating a situation identical or similar to a situation for which the voltage setting value is to be computed and computes the voltage setting value on a basis of the extracted run history information and the model information.

3. The DC feeder voltage computing device according to claim 2 , comprising:
a condition information storage to store condition information that provides the situation for which the voltage setting value is to be computed, wherein
the voltage setting value calculator extracts run history information associated with situational information identical or similar to the condition information stored in the condition information storage.

4. The DC feeder voltage computing device according to claim 3 , wherein
the condition information includes a plurality of parameters that provide the situation for which the voltage setting value is to be computed,
the situational information includes a plurality of parameters that represent the running situation of the train, and
the voltage setting value calculator extracts the run history information associated with situational information indicating a situation identical or similar to the situation for which the voltage setting value is to be computed, on a basis of a weighted sum of deviations of the parameters between the condition information and the situational information.

5. The DC feeder voltage computing device according to claim 1 , wherein
the voltage setting value calculator includes
a power consumption amount calculator to compute the amount of power consumption in the DC-electrified section on a basis of the run history information, the model information, and a candidate value for the substation voltage,
a candidate voltage value modifier to modify a plurality of times the candidate value for the substation voltage for use in computation of the amount of power consumption in the power consumption amount calculator, and
a voltage setting value determiner to determine, as the voltage setting value to be output to the substation, the candidate value that is used in computation of the amount of power consumption that satisfies the condition among a plurality of amounts of power consumption computed using multiple values of the candidate value obtained by modification by the candidate voltage value modifier.

6. The DC feeder voltage computing device according to claim 5 , wherein
the candidate voltage value modifier sequentially sets, as the candidate value for the substation voltage, values at setting intervals in a controllable range of the substation voltage, on a basis of control information on the substation voltage.

7. The DC feeder voltage computing device according to claim 5 , wherein
the candidate voltage value modifier generates a plurality of random numbers within a controllable range of the substation voltage on a basis of control information on the substation voltage, and sequentially sets the plurality of random numbers generated, as the candidate value for the substation voltage.

8. The DC feeder voltage computing device according to claim 5 , wherein
the candidate voltage value modifier performs a process of sequentially modifying the candidate value for the substation voltage in a setting range with respect to a voltage setting value while changing the voltage setting value.

9. The DC feeder voltage computing device according to claim 5 , wherein
the power consumption amount calculator sums up values of power consumption in the DC-electrified section at respective times of day on a basis of the run history information, the model information, and the candidate value for the substation voltage to compute the amount of power consumption in the DC-electrified section.

10. The DC feeder voltage computing device according to claim 1 , comprising:
a voltage setting value storage to store the voltage setting value computed by the voltage setting value calculator; and
a voltage setting value transmitter to output the voltage setting value stored in the voltage setting value storage.

11. A DC feeder voltage control system comprising:
the DC feeder voltage computing device according to claim 1 ; and
a DC feeder voltage control device to control the substation voltage of the substation on a basis of the voltage setting value computed by the DC feeder voltage computing device.

12. A direct current (DC) feeder voltage computation method performed by a computer, the method comprising:
acquiring, from a model information storage storing model information, the model information including train model information including information for controlling an amount of regenerative power reduction in a train present in a DC-electrified section of an electric railway system, feed network model information including location information on a substation that applies a voltage to a feeder line in the DC-electrified section, and substation model information including control information on a substation voltage that is the voltage to the feeder line;
acquiring run history information that indicates locations and power situations of a plurality of trains that run in the DC-electrified section on or before a preceding day, from a run history information storing the run history information on a per train basis; and
computing, on a basis of the model information and the run history information, a voltage setting value for controlling the substation voltage to cause an amount of power consumption in the DC-electrified section to satisfy a preset condition, and outputting the voltage setting value to the substation.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Mochimaru Hironori
• Fujita Keiki
• Ueda Kenji
• Wada Toshihiro

Classifications

• B60M3/02

  with means for maintaining voltage within a predetermined range (in general G05F) · CPC title

• B60M3/06 Primary

  Arrangements for consuming regenerative power · CPC title

• B61L27/16

  Trackside optimisation of vehicle or train operation · CPC title

• B61L3/006 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B61L15/0058 Primary

  On-board optimisation of vehicle or vehicle train operation · CPC title