Real-time implementation of MVDC shipboard power system reconfiguration

This paper proposes a novel approach to implement a real-time reconfiguration strategy to minimize the effect of the faults in a Shipboard Power System (SPS). In order to deal with the reconfiguration problem during fault situations in Medium Voltage DC (MVDC) SPS, a real-time Simulated Annealing (SA)-based reconfiguration technique is designed and implemented in the Real-Time Digital Simulator (RTDS). To validate the proposed approach, an MVDC SPS model with four zonal loads is used to simulate several fault scenarios. The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach to reconfigure the system under different fault situations.