/TWM

Traceable Power Quality Wattmeter

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TracePQM

TWM - TracePQM Wattmeter

TWM is developed in scope of EMPIR project TracePQM.

TWM is a transparent, metrology grade measurement system for traceable measurement of the Power and Power Quality (PQ) parameters. However, it is not restricted to power and PQ area only. It is designed to allow recording of the voltage and current waveforms using various digitizers and processing the measured waveforms using ANY algorithm. It is composed of two main components:

Both components are connected together into the single interactive application using GOLPI interface. Note the current version does not support Matlab yet, however interface to the Matlab is already in development.

The TWM concept is modular, so it can be simply extended by various digitizer drivers whereas the rest of the application stays unchanged. In the current version the TWM supports:

  • niScope drivers for control of NI's PXI-5922 digitizer for wideband measurements (can be unlocked for other cards as well...),
  • Synchronized HP/Agilent/Keysight 3458A sampling multimeters for precision measurements, partial support for Fluke 8588A,
  • cDAQ NI9238 module (only single module),
  • Keysight DSO driver (very experimental, tested on model DSOS0604),
  • DirectSound driver for ordinary soundcard for test purposes and low accuracy measurements,
  • Simulated digitizer for debug purposes (synthesizer of the composite harmonics signal).

Modularity of the Power and PQ calculation algorithms used by the TWM is ensured by the QWTB toolbox.

Algorithms

Current version includes following algorithms:

  • TWM-PSFE: Calculation of fundamental harmonic parameters by Phase Sensitive Frequency Estimator for non-coherent sampling (frequency, amplitude and phase).
  • TWM-FPNLSF: Calculation of fundamental harmonic parameters by four parameter fitting for non-coherent sampling (frequency, amplitude, phase, offset).
  • TWM-MFSF: Multi-harmonic fitting for non-coherent sampling (frequency, amplitudes, phases, offset, THD).
  • TWM-MODTDPS: Calculation of amplitude modulation parameters for sine and rectangular modulation for non-coherent sampling.
  • TWM-Flicker: Calculation of short-term flicker severity according IEC 61000-4-15 for non-coherent sampling.
  • TWM-THDWFFT: Total Harmonic Distortion calculator and harmonics analyser for non-coherent sampling.
  • TWM-PWRTDI: Four quadrant power meter by time-domain integration method for non-coherent sampling.
  • TWM-PWRFFT: Four quadrant power meter by FFT method for coherent sampling.
  • TWM-HCRMS: Half-cycle RMS calculator for PQ event detection according IEC 61000-3-40 for non-coherent sampling.
  • TWM-InDiSwell: PQ event detection according IEC 61000-3-40 for non-coherent sampling.
  • TWM-WRMS: RMS level calculation by time-domain integration method for non-coherent sampling.
  • TWM-WFFT: Windowed FFT for single or multiharmonic estimation.
  • TWM-InpZ: Estimator of digitizer input impedance (no uncertainty).
  • TWM-LowZ: Low impedance and voltage ratio measurement algorithm.

Details on the algorithms can be found in the draft document A2.4.4 - Algorithms Description.

Status

The project is still under development! In current version it can do following:

  • Digitize waveforms using one of the supported digitizers in given configuration.
  • Store the digitized waveforms in unified format independent of the digitizer.
  • Display measured waveforms.
  • Load the measured data and execute m-script on them using GNU Octave or Matlab:
    • Direct call of the user m-code,
    • or call of the algorithm from the QWTB toolbox.
  • Display calculated results.
  • Batch processing of recorded data.

News

Important changes and news:

  • 2017-11-20: First release.
  • 2017-12-08: Matlab support.
  • 2018-03-16: Improved GUI, few algorithms added.
  • 2018-08-23: Improved GUI, 8 of 10 algorithms included (not validated yet!).
  • 2019-01-24: Improved GUI, 10 of 10 algorithms included (not all validated yet!).
  • 2019-04-04: Improved GUI, 12 algorithms included (not all validated yet!).
  • 2019-04-15: Improved GUI, minor fixes.
  • 2021-07-21: Conversion of LabVIEW files to LabVIEW 2020. All libraries are inluded as Source distribution.
  • 2022-01-12: New build.

Download

Builds are available in separate Git: smaslan/TWM-builds

License

The TWM is distributed under MIT license. Note the algorithms in the QWTB toolbox may have different licenses.

External libraries

TWM depends on following external software:

  1. GNU Octave or Matlab. Has to be installed externally.
  2. QWTB. Included in TWM.
  3. GOLPI. Included in TWM.
  4. info-strings. Included in TWM.
  5. AX Excel. Included in TWM.
  6. DirectSound DLL interface. Included in TWM.
  7. vilib. Included in TWM.
  8. FFTW3. Included in TWM.

Branches

TWM project has two branches.

  • master is original branch that was developed in scope of EMPIR project TracePQM. It was made in LabVIEW 2013 and the development stopped by the end of project (May 2019). This is the version that was used for validation in scope of the project TracePQM.
  • multiplex is continuously developed version with many improvements that is currently being developed in LabVIEW 2020. It is intensively used, but it was not fully validated! ⚠️

Building

Only the LabVIEW part has to be build.

The lvprog/TWM.lvproj contains several build specifications:

  • TWM full
  • TWM visa
  • TWM visa,niscope
  • TWM visa,daqmx

"TWM full" builds for all implemented hardware. To run it, user has to install NI libraries for NI-DAQ, NI-SCOPE, VISA, and of course run time libraries for LabVIEW. Because many users use digitizers not requiring NI-DAQ or NI-SCOPE, other builds are provided. Running VI build/Build All TWM Versions.vi will offer automatic build of all builds versions and copies all versions of executable (EXE) files of the other builds to "TWM full" folder for convenience.