AN OPEN-SOURCE DISTRIBUTED CONTROL PLATFORM FOR HIL-BASED TESTING AND DEMONSTRATION OF ADVANCED SHIP POWER SYSTEMS
Abstract
The extensive research in innovative naval technologies, including thermal management,cabling, electrical machines for propulsion and generation, power electronics for energyconversion and power systems architectures is focused on the goal of enabling electric shipplatforms that provide greater flexibility for US Navy requirements. The management of power,including energy storage devices, generation, energy conversion, and load variations, in thecontext of achieving the overall mission operations, must be facilitated by a distributed controlenvironment [1]. Applied and basic research in distributed control is a subject actively beingaddressed by the naval community. The aim of such work is to provide autonomy, intelligenceand resilience under the extreme conditions that exist in potential mission operations, enabling ahigh Quality of Service (QoS) to weapon and sensor arrays while maintaining other criticalinfrastructure needs.The difficulty of the transition from theoretical control research, especially in a distributedcontext, to a physical demonstration and eventual deployment should not be underestimated.Simply put, the theory must be validated in a large, multi-faceted test bed platform that canreveal crucial real-time control functionality and performance that is otherwise difficult orimpossible to anticipate in theoretical development. Our expertise in modeling and simulation atthe Florida State University (FSU) Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS) has led us to theconclusion that the unconstrained or over-simplified models that are typically used for thepurpose of advanced control research and development will often result in what might beconsidered as an over-optimistic assessment of the control reachability and functionality. Thismay be especially problematic during physical controller instantiation. Our proposal, describedin the Section 3, will provide the necessary infrastructure to meet the Office of Naval Research(ONR) and its constituent~s needs in assessing the validity and efficacy of any particulardistributed control methodology in a highly flexible and realistic environment that is appropriatefor naval applications. In Section 2 below we describe our existing facilities and their navalapplicability.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Nov 23, 2016
- Source ID
- N000141612967
Entities
People
- Mischa Steurer
Organizations
- Florida State University
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy