Optimal sensor placement for MVDC ship power system

This paper offers a metric for the use of synchronized electrical sensor measurements for complete observability of the zonal MVDC ship power system. The placement of the multi-port sensors with the use of nodal voltage and the branch currents utilizing time synchronized measurements is studied in this paper. The Bacterial Foraging Algorithm (BFA), specifically desirable in high-dimensional function optimization, is used to minimize the total number of the sensors and the redundancy required for each of the system states. Simulation results on the 6 zone MVDC system are presented in this paper.