Smart Controller Design for Safety Operation of the MEA Electrical Distribution System

Spagnolo, Cosimo; Sumsurooah, Sharmila; Hill, Christoper Ian; Bozhko, Serhiy

Abstract

As the electrical network of future aircraft become more and more complex, safety issues related with electrification need to be addressed. This paper shows that this can be achieved by developing an advanced control strategy and then applying it, through a smart controller, to initiate fast and automatic actions to protect the vital operations of such an electrical power system (EPS). The case study presented in this paper demonstrates how a smart controller can be used to ensure uninterrupted power supply to the high priority loads in the event of single, or multiple, power electronic converter failures. The control logic is implemented using a finite state machine (FSM) and applied to a DC based EPS which is representative of future aircraft. The results are verified and validated in the Simulink environment.

Citation

Spagnolo, C., Sumsurooah, S., Hill, C. I., & Bozhko, S. (2018, October). Smart Controller Design for Safety Operation of the MEA Electrical Distribution System. Presented at IECON 2018 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Washington, DC, USA

• Presentation Conference Type: Edited Proceedings
• Conference Name: IECON 2018 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
• Start Date: Oct 21, 2018
• End Date: Oct 23, 2018
• Acceptance Date: Jul 15, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Dec 31, 2018
• Publication Date: 2018-10
• Deposit Date: Oct 4, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 4, 2021
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Pages: 5778-5785
• Series Title: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
• Series ISSN: 2577-1647
• Book Title: Proceedings: IECON 2018 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
• ISBN: 9781509066858
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2018.8591132
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/6390159
• Publisher URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8591132
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