Cossembler - Rapid Prototyping Tool for Energy System Co-simulations

Abstract

Cossembler (co-simulation assembler) is a rapid prototyping tool for co-simulation. The tool is created to expedite the process of co-simulation development for power and energy system studies targeting user groups of power engineers, energy consultants and grid operators. Instead of focusing on message encoding, transportation and synchronization, as many other co-simulation tools do, Cossembler emphasizes application-level functionalities which are of interest to the intended users (such as power flow studies, stability simulations, market simulations, etc.). Cossembler is a block modeling tool whose blocks reflect these main functionalities in power and energy sector. In this paper, we show the main characteristics of Cossembler architecture, discuss some of its advantages and disadvantages, and finally, show examples of its use.