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Protection and automation

GREI's applied research projects, ongoing and completed. Each with its team, funding and published results.

Protection and automation · Educational software · Protection simulation
Closed

STOP — Power System Operation and Protection Training Simulator

A simulation platform for substation and transmission/distribution operation and protection training, built on interactive single-line diagrams — like a game.

Navigable 3D environments
2
Protection and automation · Educational software · Virtual Reality
Closed

Virtual Reality Substation Laboratory (VRSL)

A faithful 3D simulation of the substation that powers UFC's Pici Campus, built to teach protection, automation and substation operation hands-on — like a game.

2023 — 2024 · CNPq · 2023 Universal Call
Protection and automation

Profª. PhD. Ruth Pastora Saraiva Leão

Location error
± 180 m
Protection and automation · validation
In progress

LOCALIZA

Fault location using traveling waves on distribution networks.

2024 — Ongoing · Enel · CAPES
Operating time
38 ms
Protection and automation · in the field
In progress

PROTEGE

Adaptive protection coordination for distribution feeders with high distributed-generation penetration.

2025 — Ongoing · CNPq · P&D Enel