Ship power system control: a technology assessment
Antonello Monti, Dushan Boroyevich, David A. Cartes, Roger A. Dougal, Herbert L. Ginn, G. Monnat, Steve Pekarek, Ferdinanda Ponci, E. Santi, Scott D. Sudhoff, Noel N. Schulz, William Shutt, Frank Ce Wang · 2005
This paper describes a multi-institution effort to demonstrate and assess newly developed control technologies for ship power systems. In comparison to land-based power systems, or even to earlier era of ship power systems, the now rapid incorporation of power electronics into ship power systems requires a complete redefinition of the control concepts. Furthermore, recent developments in control technology have re-opened debates over issues such as centralized versus distributed control. The complexity of the control problem calls for new hardware structures and new tools for control development and testing. A group of research institutions has teamed up to define a realistic power system scenario for testing several of the new control technologies. What level of re-configurability is reasonable to implement, how far can we push the concept of decentralized agent-based control, and what is the impact of active power management through power electronics? The following question could be addressed by the help of this research.