A Low-Cost Scalable Tabletop Emulator for Shipboard Power System
Abstract
Earlier ONR proposals: N00014-19-1-2018, and N00014-15-1-2391 addressed the Navys need for STEM undergraduates and graduate student,s who are trained in power electronics and electric drives. These two projects, disseminated several new courses developed by expert,s in the field, developed new low-cost laboratories and a new model and code-based design platform for numerical simulation and rapi,d real-time prototyping, Sciamble Workbench.This proposal aims to extend these earlier developments further to specifically benefit:,1. Instructors at various universities to develop laboratories specific to the Navy.2. STEM students to get better acquainted with s,hipboard power system, its architecture, components and operation, using a safe low-voltage low-power emulator.3. Naval manufactures,, such as HII-NNS, to rapidly accelerate their design and testing.4. It can be used for the terrestrial microgrids.The single-statio,n micro-grid emulator and the Workbench platform, that was previously developed, will be completely reworked to enable emulation of,complex interconnected systems. This includes:1. Extending Workbenchs circuit and power electronics simulation capability.2. Transi,tioning to high-performance ARM cortex real-time controller which have sufficient processing power to emulate power electronic conve,rters.3. Design simulation and real-time model for various shipboard power system components.4. Develop new communication protocols,to enable distributed emulation across physically, as well as virtually interconnected emulator stations.All emulator models and lab, manuals will be made available free-of-cost at: https://cusp.umn.edu and the hardware will be made available at low-cost through th,e University of Minnesota startup, Sciamble Corp., which was established to disseminate the labs developed under earlier ONR grants.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jul 13, 2022
- Source ID
- N000142212491
Entities
People
- Siddharth Raju
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- Regents of the University of Minnesota
- United States Navy