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Multi Infrastructure Control and Optimization Toolkit (MICOT)

MICOT is a tool for optimizing and controlling infrastructure systems. In includes modules for optimizing the operations of an infrastructure structure (for example optimal dispatch), designing infrastructure systems, restoring infrastructures systems, resiliency, preparing for natural disasters, interdicting networks, state estimation, sensor placement, and simulation of infrastructure systems. It implements algorithms developed at LANL that have been published in the academic community.

MICOT is distributed as Maven project. To install MICOT as Maven project, follow these steps

1. Download Apache Maven and unzip the package into a location of your choice.
2. Update your PATH variable to point at the bin directory where the "mvn" executable is located
3. Download and install Java 1.7 JDK (or later).
4. Update JAVA_HOME to point at directory of your Java installation.
5. Install a git tool
6. Download the repository using the following command git clone https://github.com/lanl-ansi/micot.git
7. Build and package the code using the command mvn install -DskipTests from the top level directory of the git repository

If you are behind the LANL firewall, you need to tell Maven where the proxyserver is. In ${user.home}/.m2/settings.xml add the following block (create settings.xml if it does not exist)

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<settings xsi:schemaLocation="https://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="https://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="https://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0">
<proxies>
<proxy>
<id>lanlproxy</id>
<active>true</active>
<protocol>http</protocol>
<host>proxyout.lanl.gov</host>
<port>8080</port>
</proxy>
</proxies>
</settings>

The maven build does not compile code that depends on cplex. To build micot with cplex follow the steps provided in the CPLEX installation section below.

MICOT is distributed as an Eclipse project. To install MICOT as an eclipse project, follow these steps

1. Download and install Java 1.7 JDK (or later).
2. Download and install Eclipse.
3. Install a git tool
4. Download the repository using the following command git clone https://github.com/lanl-ansi/micot.git
5. Download Apache Maven and unzip the package into a location of your choice.
6. Update your PATH variable to point at the bin directory where the "mvn" executable is located
7. Update JAVA_HOME to point at directory of your Java installation.
8. From the top directory of the Micot repository run mvn eclipse:eclipse
9. Import the git project in Eclipse. File -> Import -> Projects from Git -> Existing Local Repository

• Sometimes you have Right click on the project in Eclipse and choose Maven -> Update Project

The eclipse project is configured to compile without cplex. To build micot with cplex follow the steps provided in the CPLEX installation section below.

Some functionality of MICOT requires interactions with third-party software through the Windows DCOM protocols. To install the native libraries required to interact with DCOM, follow these instructions

1. Install a git tool
2. Download the native libraries using the following command git clone https://github.lanlytics.com:rbent/micot-libraries.git

1. Download the Java Com bridge version 1.18.
2. Add the directory where the file "jacob-1.18-x64.dll" is located to your PATH environment variable

If you wish to configure MICOT to work with CPLEX to perform optimization of MILP problems, follow these steps.

1. Buy cplex
2. Remove

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<excludes>
<exclude>**/cplex/*.java</exclude>
</excludes>
</configuration>
</plugin>

from pom.xml

3. Remove "excluding="**/cplex/*.java" in the line

<classpathentry excluding="**/cplex/*.java" kind="src" output="target/classes" path="src/main/java">

of .classpath

1. Download the native libraries using the following command git clone https://github.lanlytics.com:rbent/micot-libraries.git
2. Add

<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/micot-libraries/jars/cplex1263.jar"/>

to .classpath

• This step might have to be repeated during git updates

1. Add

<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/foo/cplex.jar"/>

to .classpath, where foo is the location of your cplex.jar file

• This step might have to be repeated during git updates

1. Obtain a license for SCIP

1. Download the native libraries using the following command git clone https://github.lanlytics.com:rbent/micot-libraries.git

1. Request the LANL C++ micot-scip bridge source code
2. Build the micot-scip native libraries using the provided Make file

1. [Option 1] Add the directory where the micot native libraries reside to the PATH variable of your machine. For linux this is the location of scipLibrary.so. For windows this is the location of scipLibrary.dll. For mac this is the location of libscip.dylib.

2. [Option 2]

• Linux

  1. Confirm that /usr/local/bin appears in your PATH variable

  echo $PATH
  

  If it does, place scipLibrary.so in /usr/local/bin/

  sudo cp scipLibrary.so /usr/local/bin/
  

  2. Scip requires the following libraries
  • libz.so.1
  • libgmp.so.10
  • libreadline.so.7
  • libgfortran.so.4
  • libgcc_s.so.1
  • libc.so.6
  • ld-linux-x86-64.so.2.

  Apt-get can be used to install these libraries with the following commands

  apt-get update
  apt-get -y upgrade
  apt-get -y install gcc g++ gfortran libreadline-dev libgmp-dev zlib1g-dev libncurses-dev make cmake wget
  

• Mac

  1. Place the contents of scip/mac in /usr/local/lib/

  sudo cp scip/mac/* /usr/local/lib/
  

• Windows 1. Unlike linux and mac, there is no default "local" directory for warehousing binaries. Best practices is to add the scip windows directory the PATH variable

  • Windows prefers that environment variables be modified through its GUI options
    1. Select Start, select Control Panel. double click System, and select the Advanced tab.
    2. Click Environment Variables.
    3. In the Edit System Variable (or New System Variable) window, specify the value of the PATH environment variable. Append the scip directory by using the syntax ";scip_directory"
  • The alternative is modifying the PATH variable at the command line or batch script requries this command

  setx PATH "%PATH%;scip_directory
  

  • One could bypass the need to update the PATH variable by putting the windows scip libraries in %systemroot\system% (Windows 7), but that is not recommended.

TODO

OpenDSS is supported by windows platforms only

1. Download and install OpenDSS. Version 7.6.5 is the currently tested and supported version.
2. Follow the DCOM installation instructions.

TODO

TODO

The resilient design executable runs a program that optimally designs electric power distribution systems for resiliency applications. The details of the model are provided in this paper

E. Yamangil, R. Bent, S. Backhaus. Designing Resilient Electrical Distribution Grids. Proceedings of the 29th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2015), January 2015, Austin, Texas.

Documentation on running the code is found here https://github.com/lanl-ansi/micot/wiki/Resilient-Design-Executable

Under the Windows operating system, running and executing powerworld from MICOT is done by following these instructions

1. Purchase Powerworld
2. Install a git tool
3. Download the repository using the following command git clone https://github.com/lanl-ansi/micot.git
4. Follow the DCOM installation instructions *To run from anywhere, add the directory where the file "jacob-1.18-x64.dll" is located to your PATH environment variable
5. From within target directory run the following command java -jar micot-powerworld.jar -p <powerworld or raw file> -m (optional) <modification json file>

See https://github.com/lanl-ansi/micot/wiki/Run-Powerworld-Executible for more details.