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Control Systems
The VTB offers unprecedented capabilities for rapid
prototyping, testing, and insertion of controls into power electronics. Control
algorithms can be developed in the Matlab/Simulink environment and then
immediately dropped into a power system simulation for testing and refinement,
then dropped onto a DSP-based embedded controller without at any time requiring
user intervention in the controller code. The VTB capabilities that allow a user
to modify or rearrange a power system architecture or to use models developed by
experts in specific disciplines allow more comprehensive testing of control
algorithms than would normally be possible in a control-centric study
environment. Our focus is on local-level control – at the level of individual
power converters or motor drives, or local collections of those objects. Target
systems include fuel cell power plants, point of use power converters, local
power distribution, distributed generation equipment, and machinery drives
including cryogenic power converters for superconducting machines and SMES.
The objectives are to create the theory and tools necessary to rapidly and
effectively develop controls for advanced electric systems:
- To develop methodology to improve rapid control prototyping
- To experiment on the use of agent-based technology for power-systems
- To exploit the capabilities of Synergetic Control and Control by Inversion and
Invariance
- To study Wavelet approachs for the design of advanced non-linear power system
controls
- To develop modular control system for pulsating load such as EMALS
- To develop control for innovative drive systems
