System reconfiguration on shipboard DC zonal electrical system

Abstract

In this paper, an automated agent based reconfiguration scheme has been proposed for the DC zonal shipboard electrical system (SES). It is shown that the scheme can reconfigure the system following a disturbance in order to maintain the continuity of supply to loads. The paper identifies the main design issues, which include the number and location of the sectionalizers, primary and secondary DC bus configurations. The paper illustrates that with proper design, the automated reconfiguration can provide the expected performance with regards to continuity and quality of supply to loads.