A Model Predictive Control for a Four-Zone Medium-Voltage AC/DC Electric Ship

The following paper provides details of a model predictive control designed to operate a four-zone medium-voltage AC/DC electric ship. The control incorporates a reduced order model (ROM) that describes the ship components, a discretization of the dynamics produced by the ROM, and an optimization formulation that determines the ship's behavior. This includes details on how to effectively abstract the power system components into a form that integrates well with computational optimizers. Then, the control is validated on a operational vignette based on mission profiles.