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The Optimal Control of an Electric Warship Driven by an Operational Vignette

Young, Joseph; Wilson, David G.; Cook, Marvin A.

The following paper presents a framework for the optimal control of an electric warship using a load profile derived from an operational vignette. This framework consists of three key components: a reduced order model of an electric ship, a discretization of the resulting constitutive equations using an orthogonal spline collocation method, and an optimization engine to solve the resulting formulation. Once assembled, this control framework is validated through its application to a four zone model of a medium voltage DC (MVDC) electric ship using a load profile from an operational vignette,