Optimal Load Management System for Aircraft Electric Power Distribution
Pierluigi Nuzzo

Citation
Pierluigi Nuzzo. "Optimal Load Management System for Aircraft Electric Power Distribution". Talk or presentation, February, 2014.

Abstract
Aircraft electric power systems (EPS) route power from generators to vital avionic loads by configuring a set of electronic control switches denoted as contactors. In this talk, we address the problem of designing a hierarchical optimal control strategy for the EPS contactors in the presence of system faults. We show that the EPS control problem can be formulated as a Mixed-Integer Linear Program (MILP) and efficiently solved to yield load shedding, source allocation, contactor switching and battery charging policies, while optimizing a number of performance metrics, such as the number of used generators and shed loads. This solution is then integrated into a hierarchical control scheme.

Electronic downloads

Internal. This publication has been marked by the author for TerraSwarm-only distribution, so electronic downloads are not available without logging in.

Citation formats

• HTML

  Pierluigi Nuzzo. <a
  href="http://www.terraswarm.org/pubs/281.html"
  ><i>Optimal Load Management System for Aircraft
  Electric Power Distribution</i></a>, Talk or
  presentation,  February, 2014.

• Plain text

  Pierluigi Nuzzo. "Optimal Load Management System for
  Aircraft Electric Power Distribution". Talk or
  presentation,  February, 2014.

• BibTeX

  @presentation{Nuzzo14_OptimalLoadManagementSystemForAircraftElectricPowerDistribution,
      author = {Pierluigi Nuzzo},
      title = {Optimal Load Management System for Aircraft
                Electric Power Distribution},
      month = {February},
      year = {2014},
      abstract = {Aircraft electric power systems (EPS) route power
                from generators to vital avionic loads by
                configuring a set of electronic control switches
                denoted as contactors. In this talk, we address
                the problem of designing a hierarchical optimal
                control strategy for the EPS contactors in the
                presence of system faults. We show that the EPS
                control problem can be formulated as a
                Mixed-Integer Linear Program (MILP) and
                efficiently solved to yield load shedding, source
                allocation, contactor switching and battery
                charging policies, while optimizing a number of
                performance metrics, such as the number of used
                generators and shed loads. This solution is then
                integrated into a hierarchical control scheme. },
      URL = {http://terraswarm.org/pubs/281.html}
  }
  

Posted by Pierluigi Nuzzo on 21 Feb 2014.
Groups: tools