Evaluation of Tactical Energy Management Controls for Shipboard Power Systems

A future naval capability program is currently underway to develop robust combat power and energy controls, along with methods and tools for evaluation of these controls. This paper presents progress in this effort, with the paper focusing more specifically on evaluation of tactical energy management controls. The approach for evaluation includes the development of a real-time electromagnetic transient simulation model of a representative naval shipboard power system, allowing evaluation of controls to span testing of controls purely in simulation, testing of deployed controls using controller hardware-in-the-loop simulation, and testing of controls interacting with physical hardware using power hardware-in-the-loop simulation. The approach also includes the use of offline simulation tools for screening scenarios of interest, the development of baseline control approaches for comparison, and the development of relevant metrics to assess the relative performance of control approaches. This paper presents an overview of the approach and current progress, as well as presenting results from interim analyses to illustrate the approach and initial lessons learned.