Distributed Autonomy, Resiliency, and Optimality in Naval Microgrids
Abstract
Personnel: The PI team includes Dr. Davoudi and Lewis from UT-Arlington, and Dr. Edringtonfrom Florida State University. The first three research thrusts will be carried out at UT-Arlington,and the fourth research thrust will be studied at Florida State University. Related facilities andequipment are provided in the Qualification section. We will attend ONR program reviews forONR Code 331, and will seek their guidance throughout this project.Deliverable and Dissemination: The PI team will provide the technical and financial progressreports annually (or at the request of the program manager). This is a basic research proposaland explore open research challenges. As such, we will not focus on ~hard~ deliverable of softwareor prototypes, but will make an effort to provide them if requested. The main disseminationmethods will include publishing and presenting research findings in flagship IEEE or ASNE journalsand conferences, e.g., Intelligent Ship Symposium or Electric Ship Technology Symposium.Dissemination of research findings can also benefit from: i) IEEE PELS smart building initiativesand IEEE PES microgrid task force, ii) Journal special issues at PELS/IE/PES Transactions (PIDavoudi has participated in eight special issues, e.g., [273]~[278]), ACM Transactions/Journals,and ASME journals, iii) Soliciting book proposals (PI Davoudi is the lead editor for Taylor andFrancis book series in microgrids and active power distribution network engineering), iv) Specialsessions, workshops, symposia, and invited panels in premier venues in IEEE, ACM, and ASME,e.g., IEEE PES General Meeting, IEEE PELS Energy Conversion Congress and Expo, IEEE AmericanControl Conference, ACM E-Energy, and ASME Power and Energy Conference and Expo,v) Technology transfer by securing patents.Student diversity in STEM: UTA is a Hispanic-Serving Institution, and also has 15% African-American students and 54% first-generation college students. FSU~s College of Engineering ismerged with the Florida A&M University, a Historically Black College and University. The PIsare fully committed to diversifying the student portfolio in STEM fields. PI Davoudi has supervisedthree award-winning women undergraduates; two African-American and one Hispanic students. Inparticular, Naima Rivas has received the IEEE Power and Energy Systems Scholarship Plus as wellas the National Women in Transportation Scholarship. The PIs Davoudi and Lewis have hostedseveral women graduate students to work on game-theoretic control of DC microgrids and finitetimesynchrony in AC microgrids. PI Davoudi runs an NSF-REU Site on Sensors and Applications(2012-2017) with a diverse participant group: 33% women, 10% African-American, and 20%Hispanic. PI Lewis has a record of training top women PhD students, e.g. Dr. Cecilia Temponi,Dr. Asma Al-Tamimi (Dept. Head in ECE, Hashemite Univ., Jordan), and Dr. Draguna Vrabie (Sr.Research Scientist at United Technologies). UTA PIs can use the NSF-Louis Stokes Alliances forMinority Participation [279] and McNair Scholar programs [280] to recruit minority students.K-12 outreach: PI Davoudi has already participated, and will be further involved, in the Tex-PREP program, an academic enrichment program to encourage women and underrepresented minoritystudents to study in STEM fields. He has given seminars and laboratory tours on modernenergy systems to hundreds of high school students in UTA~s summer camps, Engineering Saturdaycamps, and Girlgeneering (girl engineering camps for middle school students interested in STEMeducation). He has engaged freshman engineering students in freshman interest groups program atUT-Arlington. Outreach programs of similar nature exist at Florida State University.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Mar 03, 2017
- Source ID
- N000141712239
Entities
People
- Ali Davoudi
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of Texas at Arlington