Efficiency Focused Energy Management Strategy Based on Optimal Droop Gain Design for More Electric Aircraft

Mohamed, Mohamed A.A.; Yeoh, Seang Shen; Atkin, Jason; Hussaini, Habibu; Bozhko, Serhiy

Abstract

Due to the substantial increase of the number of electrically-driven systems on-board More Electric Aircraft (MEA), the on-board Electric Power Systems (EPS) are becoming more and more complex. Therefore, there is a need to develop a control strategy to manage the overall EPS energy flow and ensure the operation of safety-critical systems (which are electrical loads) under different operating scenarios, and to consider EPS losses minimization, exploiting the thermal capability of generators, different load priorities, as well as available batteries with their charging and discharging schedules. This paper presents an Energy Management (EM) strategy that considers the aforementioned objectives. The optimal droop gain approach is employed as a power-sharing method to minimize the total EPS losses in MEA. A Finite State Machine (FSM) has been used to implement the control strategy to realize the EPS reconfiguration operation. The proposed EM strategy is implemented and simulated using Matlab/Simulink and Hardware In the Loop (HIL) under the different operational scenarios such as normal operations, failure of one of the power generation channels, and failure of all power generation channels. The proposed EM method has shown its capability to efficiently manage the EPS under different operating conditions to reduce the overall system losses.

Citation

Mohamed, M. A., Yeoh, S. S., Atkin, J., Hussaini, H., & Bozhko, S. (2022). Efficiency Focused Energy Management Strategy Based on Optimal Droop Gain Design for More Electric Aircraft. IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, https://doi.org/10.1109/tte.2022.3159731

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 8, 2022
• Online Publication Date: Mar 14, 2022
• Publication Date: Mar 14, 2022
• Deposit Date: Mar 24, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 1, 2022
• Journal: IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification
• Electronic ISSN: 2332-7782
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/tte.2022.3159731
• Keywords: Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Energy Engineering and Power Technology; Transportation; Automotive Engineering
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/7648504
• Publisher URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9734043
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