Optimal Load Management System for Aircraft Electric Power Distribution
Pierluigi Nuzzo

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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.

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    Aircraft Electric Power Distribution". Talk or
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    @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}
    }
    

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