A low-cost high-speed real-time simulator for ships power systems

Author

Crosbie, R.E. ; Zenor, J.J. ; Word, D. ; Bednar, R. ; Hingorani, N.G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California State Univ., Chico, Chico, CA, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

10-13 April 2011

Firstpage

102

Lastpage

105

Abstract

Modern power-electronic systems need real-time simulations with short frame times to minimize switch-timing errors. At ESTS´09 we reported using FPGAs to achieve frame times as low as 400nS. We also described a non-real-time implementation of a multi-rate benchmark of an unmanned underwater vehicle. Recent research has resulted in a real-time implementation of the UUV benchmark with hardware in the loop and is now focused on the design of a more general low-cost, high-speed, real-time, multi-rate simulator that combines FPGAs with a conventional PC.

Keywords

field programmable gate arrays; power electronics; power supplies to apparatus; power system simulation; real-time systems; remotely operated vehicles; ships; underwater vehicles; FPGA; low-cost high-speed real-time simulator; nonreal-time multirate benchmark implementation; power electronic system; ships power system; switch-timing error minimization; unmanned underwater vehicle; Benchmark testing; Computational modeling; Digital signal processing; Field programmable gate arrays; Real time systems; Software; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electric Ship Technologies Symposium (ESTS), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Alexandria, VA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9272-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ESTS.2011.5770849

Filename

5770849