Supervisory On-line Optimal Control of an Electric Power Microgrid Design for Lunar Habitation

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-19-2023

Department

Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics

Abstract

The following article describes an optimal control algorithm for the operation and study of an electric microgrid designed to power a lunar habitat. A photovoltaic (PV) generator powers the habitat and the presence of predictable lunar eclipses necessitates a system to prioritize and control loads within the microgrid. The algorithm consists of a reduced order model (ROM) that describes the microgrid, a discretization of the equations that result from the ROM, and an optimization formulation that controls the microgrid’s behavior. In order to validate this approach, the paper presents results from simulation based on lunar eclipse information and a schedule of intended loads.

Publication Title

AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum

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