Application of Artificial Intelligence in Digital Design of Substation

Zaibao Xiong, Zhongkun Ma, Yunwei Li, Lin Wang,Yu Gao, Shaofei Du, Ding Ding
State Nuclear Electric Power Planning Design & Research Institute CO.,LTD, Beijing, 100095, China
E-mail: lebear99@foxmail.com

Abstract: The artificial intelligence takes the computer as the core, and has great development and innovation in the research
of the interdisciplinary field. The level of artificial intelligence is high, and processing speed is fast, which can ease the burden
of designers, and greatly improve the designers life quality and production efficiency. With the development process of
science, more and more requirements of substation digitized designing are posed. Application Imagination on Substation
Design Based on Artificial Intelligence is proposed in this paper, which can design secondary physical circuit, secondary
virtual circuit and intelligent label more quality and effective.
Key Words:Artificial intelligence, Digitized designing, substation secondary electric, Intelligent label

solving the problem, and the strategy is implemented to

1 Introduction
Artificial intelligence (AI) has made great progress after
more than 60 years of development. The traditional AI
paradigm promotes the development of AI from different
aspects. Although they have “prosperous” and “depleted” in
different development periods, they are constantly revised
and improved by their respective theories in practice [1-6].
This paper introduces the concept of "information–
knowledge - intelligent conversion" [7-9] artificial
intelligence into the digital design of substation, and uses a
modern high-speed computer, a secure network, combined
with the current automated auxiliary design software, to
propose a digital design application of substation. The level
of artificial intelligence is high, and processing speed is fast,
which can ease the burden of designers, and greatly
improve the designers life quality and production efficiency.
With the development process of science, more and more
requirements of substation digitized designing are posed.
Application Imagination on Substation Design Based on
Artificial Intelligence is proposed in this paper, which can
design secondary physical circuit, secondary virtual circuit
and intelligent label more quality and effective.
2 Method of Artificial Intelligence
The research shows that although the definition of human
intelligence is quite complicated, it can still be expressed as
following: Human intelligence is such a capability: in order
to realize the long-term goal of human beings to
"continually improve the conditions of survival and
development" (it is this long-term goal to become the
inexhaustible motive force for the development of human
and human society). In the face of specific circumstances,
we can discover and define the problems that should be
solved and the preset goals for solving problems based on
existing knowledge. Then get the necessary information for
the problem and goal, and extract new knowledge from it
(plus the supplement of existing knowledge). Under the
guidance of the target, the acquired information and
knowledge are used to generate an intelligent strategy for
solve the problem and achieve the goal.
The starting point of all artificial intelligence work is the
“problem forecast, prior knowledge and preset target” given
in advance. Their core task is to "develop an intelligent
strategy for solving problems". The common solution path
is “getting information, refining knowledge, generating
strategies”. Because "strategy" is the main manifestation of
intelligence, therefore, this common solution path can also
be expressed as “acquiring information, accumulating
knowledge, generating intelligence”.
It can be understood that the common core mechanism of
artificial intelligence generation is the process of “acquiring
information, perfecting knowledge, and generating
intelligence” under the requirements of “waiting for
questions, prior knowledge and preset goals”. It can also be
expressed more concisely as "information-knowledge-
intelligent conversion" under the constraints of a given
condition.
3 Introduction to Substation Secondary System
Design
In order to adapt to the domestic and international
development of power design industry, to improve the
design level, it is imperative to carry out design tool reform.
Before the advent of CAD, engineers used pencils and rulers
for drawing design, which was extremely inefficient. CAD
uses computers and their graphics devices to help designers
do design work. The emergence of CAD is a revolution in
design industry design tools [10, 11] .
At the end of 2005, the Gullian software platform jointly
developed by Shangou Hailian Company and the domestic
design unit has begun to take shape, and the Electrical
Automation Aided Design System (ELEC) is specially
designed for the software used by the secondary
professional [12]. ELEC uses the powerful SQL Server
database[13] as the background data foundation to help
designers achieve collaborative design, resource sharing
and security. The software includes the following main
functions: project management, project copy, finished
product management, secondary schematic design,
automatic generation of design finished products (including

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 cable inventory, terminal block wiring diagram, terminal
block wiring diagram, etc.), automatic link core, design
error Alarm and other functions.
4 Intelligent Seach Engine Application
With the powerful SQL Sever database as the background
data automation design software, you can use the powerful
search function of SQL Sever database to manage the whole
grid project.
Under the premise of "waiting for questions, prior
knowledge and preset goals", the existing engineering
volume library is searched and applied, so that the volume
book that you need is exported, and the import function of
the automation design software is used. A similar volume is
imported into the new volume, which improves design
efficiency.
The existing engineering and volume books need to be
defined and written into the SQL Sever database of the
automated aided design software. See Figure 1, in the
figure:
A=letter data (English letters A to Z)
N=Number characters (Arabic numbers 0 to 9)
The first letter of protection manufacturer is the first set
of protection, and the second letter is the second set of
protection. The main primary equipment manufacturers
refer to: circuit breaker, GIS, main transformer, switch
cabinet four.
There are two search conditions for detailed search:
engineering search keyword + volume search keyword. Of
course, for some conditions that are unclear, the intelligent
system can perform fuzzy search based on the frequency of
recent engineering queries, and finally search for the most
understandable results for engineering query use.
Fig.1 Volume ID structure graph
5 Automatic Intelligent Design of Substation
Physical Circuit
Unlike conventional substations, intelligent substations
have physical and virtual circuits. The physical circuit is the
actual cable or fiber optic cable connection, visible physical
connection. Whether a conventional substation or a
intelligent substation, the physical circuit is the basis for the
entire substation design.
5.1 Artificial intelligence innovation concept
According to the concept of artificial intelligence "getting
information, refining new knowledge, and generating
intelligent strategies under the premise of determining
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problems, knowledge and preset goals", we can define the
physical circuit design of the substation as: drawing out the
finished product of the substation physical circuit as
"determined" The problem, the knowledge and the preset
goal"; obtain information according to the design
input-manufacturer data; then refine the required
information - refine the new knowledge; then formulate the
production intelligence strategy according to the general
design of the construction drawing, which is a complete
artificial intelligence execution process.
5.2 Strategy formulation
According to the modular design of State Grid
Corporation, each design institute can also organize its own
standardized library according to its own habits, and
develop a standard engineering database based on the
general design of the library or the national network.
Artificial intelligence develops a drawing strategy based on
this rule.
5.3 Getting information
Using image recognition technology [14, 15], all required
manufacturer information is entered into the database in an
engineering project.
5.4 Refining information
According to the manufacturer's data in the engineering
database, the information required for the standardized
construction drawing is extracted, such as the terminal block,
the optical fiber port number, the configuration information
of the panel, and the coordination of the station power
supply.
5.5 Physical loop generation
At the beginning of the construction drawing project, the
main wiring and the general plane of the project are input
into the project. The computer intelligent digital design
software automatically defines the volume of the project and
the standardized drawings of each volume according to the
main wiring and the total level. Based on the acquired
knowledge, the software extracts the knowledge, fills in the
loop information according to the established
standardization strategy-general design or standardized
library mode, and finally completes the summary of the loop
in the object and outputs the finished product. The finished
product information is all stored in the database for later
query and extraction.
6 Automatic Intelligent Design of Substation
Virtual Circuit
The intelligent substation realizes digital network
communication based on the IEC61850 standard. Through
the use of advanced, reliable, integrated and
environmentally friendly intelligent primary and secondary
equipment, the intelligent substation realizes the digitization
of the whole station information, the communication
platform network and the information sharing
standardization. At present, the virtual secondary circuit
design mainly relies on the manufacturer. After the ICD
 configuration file of the secondary equipment is provided,
the design work can be carried out, and the design stage
appears due to the difference in the understanding and
application of the IEC61850 standard between different
equipment manufacturers. The ICD profile changes the
iterations multiple times, greatly affecting the design
productivity.
At present, the software is designed to perform the
secondary loop connection design between the intelligent
devices, and the association between the intelligent devices
needs to be manually established one by one. Intelligent
substations of 220kV and above have many intelligent
devices, large design workload, long cycle and error-prone.
Along with the manufacturer's ICD configuration file,
iteratively changed the iteration, involving a wide range of
devices, and more cooperation between the volume book
designers. Complex modification processes often result in
problems that are overdue, incomplete, or imperfect. Lower
design efficiencies can neither respond to on-site
construction schedules in a timely manner, nor meet
increasingly tight design cycle requirements.
6.1 Artificial Intelligence Innovation Concept
With the physical circuit design idea, according to the
concept of artificial intelligence "getting information,
refining new knowledge, and generating intelligent
strategies under the premise of determining problems,
knowledge and preset goals", we can artificially design the
virtual circuit of the substation.
6.2 Strategy formulation
The secondary virtual circuit design is also refined on the
basis of the general schematic diagram, that is, the
refinement of each virtual terminal group (information
stream). Based on the virtual terminal scheme of the
universal device, the design of the virtual circuit can be
performed before ordering. The finished product does not
contain information such as the manufacturer data set.
z According to the type of device in the design, each
device defines a virtual terminal signal.
z Based on the schematic diagram, the information flow
between different types of devices is established
according to the information flow relationship.
z Complete the virtual loop connection inside each
information stream.
z When designing the virtual secondary circuit, it is
necessary to reflect the correspondence between the
physical port and the virtual terminal, that is, the
corresponding part of the virtual reality.
6.3 Getting information
After the design work based on the general equipment is
completed, the first need is to collect the ICD file of the
manufacturer. At present, the link needs to be obtained from
the manufacturer. For the standardization of the ICD file, an
unified intelligent detection and storage is carried out, and
the system can establish a corresponding file management
library. Centrally manage storage of model files.
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Fig.2 ICD database
6.4 Refining information
For the device models used in the project, the ICD files
are matched one by one, and the one-to-one correspondence
between the general devices and the ICD is established. This
process is a process of instantiating a general-purpose
device. After matching the ICD file, the system
automatically extracts the input and output virtual terminals
that resolve the ICD file, and displays them in an itemized
manner to support filtering and filtering.


Fig.3 ICD matching
6.5 Virtual circuit generation
The intelligent auxiliary design software completes the
correspondence between the virtual terminal of the
universal device and the specific device (ICD file), wherein
the point of the virtual terminal provides an automatic
point-to-point function, and the two ends are matched
according to the name, and the degree of automation
increases with the degree of standardization. The higher the
value is, the function of "applying to the same type of
device" and the matching relationship of import and export
are provided, and the point data is reused, and
corresponding to the physical loop, the SQL database is
written. Finally, the whole station virtual terminal design
data can be exported according to the published mode.
7 Substation Intelligent Labele Application
In view of the fact that the current intelligent substation
process layer optical cable label can not display the
transmitted virtual terminal information. It is not convenient
for on-site debugging and maintenance, combined with the
application requirements of construction, debugging and
operation. Referring to the principle of designing the
intelligent substation optical cable label design in some
regions, firstly, the circuit number, the optical cable going
direction and the information content of the optical cable
label are uniformly standardized in the secondary system
construction drawing design. Based on this, advanced
digital coding technology is applied to realize the generation
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optical cable intelligent tags and related software and
hardware facilities. Quickly display the virtual terminal
information transmitted in the optical cable through the
handheld terminal in the field scanning mode (the signal
search time can be reduced from the original few minutes to
several seconds to realize the “sweep-and-seeā, and the core
can be searched in batches. All virtual terminal signals). It
can greatly improve the efficiency and correctness of
debugging, overhaul and reconstruction, and accurately
realize the "virtual and real correspondence" between the
physical and logical loops of the process layer.
 artificial intelligence is getting higher and higher, and the
Fig.4 Intelligent label system of substation
7.1 Application effect of the project
By parsing the SPCD file and the SCD file, the physical
circuit and the logical loop of the whole station are
associated by the virtual reality corresponding method,
thereby graphically displaying the panoramic information
flow diagram of the whole station device. The graphics
processing module initializes the physical device graphics
of the whole station and the connection diagram between the
devices through the data parsed by the file parsing module;
and associates the SPCD file with the physical loop
information and the logical loop information of the SCD file
parsing by the virtual real-time corresponding module.
Showing a panoramic view of the virtual physical circuit of
the entire station.

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Fig.5 Intelligent label mode
7.2 Application of Intelligent labels
Utilizing SQL Sever's powerful database management
function, the intelligent assisted design software can adopt
to the "three-layer diagram" design idea, the first layer of
fiber signal flow diagram, the second layer of cable
distribution map, the third layer of virtual signal and the
fiber association diagram, through the three-layer drawing
reads the SQL Sever data, and completely describes the
flow direction of the optical core, the optical cable and the
optical signal to which the virtual signal belongs, thereby
solving the problem of intelligent tag information collection.
The intuitive combination of physical wiring and virtual
circuit (logic signal connection) facilitates the designer to
straighten out the design ideas, and the design results also
meet the depth requirements for commissioning and
maintenance. The intelligent tag system database can
interface with external interfaces to directly output data to
other platform interfaces[16].
8 Conclusion
Artificial intelligence takes the computer as the core, and
has already developed and innovated in the research of
interdisciplinary fields such as network science. The level of
processing speed is getting faster and faster, which reduces
the burden of physical labor or mental labor for human
beings, and greatly improves the quality of life and
production efficiency of human beings. With the continuous
development of technology, the digital design requirements
of power grids are getting higher and higher. This paper
proposes an artificial intelligence application based on the
existing automatic auxiliary design software (ELEC). Under
the established module of the substation secondary design,
the artificial intelligence system completes the highly
automated design of the physical circuit, virtual circuit and
smart tag in the secondary design of the substation
according to the main wiring, the general plane, and the
automatic identification of the manufacturer's data, thereby
improving efficiency. Eliminate low-level mistakes. This
idea also provides a certain reference for the digital
handover of the secondary design of the substation.
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