FluxPMU is a "grassroots" educational project that aims to enable students to explore and buildan open source, low cost PMU.

Building from the legacy of OpenPMU V1, FluxPMU provides a Do-it-Yourself (DIY) guide with all documentation and software sources required to build FluxPMU.

FluxPMU provides only a refinement of OpenPMU V1's design, and it is NOT to be viewed as an evolution on the design of OpenPMU. For the latest iteration of the OpenPMU device, please visit: http://www.openpmu.org/.

This repository is accompanied by a draft of the paper:

E. Williamson, L. Vanfretti, P. Adhikari, J. W. Dziuba, and D. Laverty, “FluxPMU - A Maker’s Guide of a DIY Synchronized Phasor Measurement Unit,” submitted for review, IEEE PES ISGT NA 2021, Feb. 15-18, Virtual Event, 2021.

The paper can be found on this root directory, it is named 20200930_Overview_draft.pdf. The paper has been submitted for review to the IEEE PES ISGT NA 2021, if and when the paper is published, this repository will be updated to provide a link to the final version of the paper.

When citing the paper above, we also recommend citing the following publication:

D. M. Laverty, R. J. Best, P. Brogan, I. Al Khatib, L. Vanfretti and D. J. Morrow, "The OpenPMU Platform for Open-Source Phasor Measurements," in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 701-709, April 2013, doi: 10.1109/TIM.2013.2240920.

After reading the paper(s) listed above, the entire "Maker's Guide" can be found in the director ./00_Documentation/00_Makers Guide.pdf, this will give you an overview of the different resources associated with this repository.

This repository contains more than the main "Maker's Guide", it also provides updated source code for all software required for the FluxPMU, documentation for the software, hardware assembly guides, etc.

The resources have been organized as follows:

• 00_Documentation this is the major folder, it includes the "Maker's Guide" as a single .pdf, 20200930_Overview_draft.pdf, and three sub-folders. The sub-folders include:
  • 01_HardwareGuides contains assembly instructions, PIC micro-controller configuration, wiring, etc.
  • 02_TestingGuides contains documents showing how to test the FluxPMU using different instruments such as a frequency generator, an Analog Discovery Board, etc.
  • 03_LabVIEW_VI_Documentation contains individual documentation for all LabVIEW VI files in .pdf. You can also find this documentation online, however, it is also placed here for version tracking and maintainance purposes.
• 01_SourceCode contains two folders, one with all the updated (64-bit) software related to LabVIEW and the PIC micro-controller (v5p1) files used.
• 02_HardwareSourceFiles contains a part list/bill of materials with costs based on US-based suppliers and costs in US dollars, as well as the design BRD files for the PCBs.
• 10_LegacyDocumentation contains the original documents we used when getting FluxPMU started.

This work was supported in part by Dominion Energy Virginia and in part by the Center of Excellence for NEOM Research at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology under grant OSR-2019-CoE-NEOM- 4178.12.

(c) David Laverty, Emmett Williamson, Luigi Vanfretti, Prottay M. Adhikari, Jerry W. Dziuba.

All materials under this repository are distributed under the GPL v3 license.