TY - JOUR
T1 - Hierarchical Control of Aircraft Electro-Thermal Systems
AU - Koeln, Justin P.
AU - Pangborn, Herschel C.
AU - Williams, Matthew A.
AU - Kawamura, Malia L.
AU - Alleyne, Andrew G.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/7
Y1 - 2020/7
N2 - A hierarchical model predictive control (MPC) approach is developed for energy management of aircraft electro-thermal systems. High-power electrical systems on board modern and future aircraft perform a variety of mission- and flight-critical tasks, while thermal management systems actively cool these electronics to satisfy component-specific temperature constraints, ensuring safe and reliable operation. In this paper, coordination of these electrical and thermal systems is performed using a hierarchical control approach that decomposes the multi-energy domain, constrained optimization problem into smaller, more computationally efficient problems that can be solved in real-time. A hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) experimental testbed is used to evaluate the proposed hierarchical MPC in comparison to a baseline controller for a scaled, laboratory representation of an aircraft electro-thermal system. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms the baseline controller across a range of electrical loading in terms of both efficient energy management and constraint satisfaction.
AB - A hierarchical model predictive control (MPC) approach is developed for energy management of aircraft electro-thermal systems. High-power electrical systems on board modern and future aircraft perform a variety of mission- and flight-critical tasks, while thermal management systems actively cool these electronics to satisfy component-specific temperature constraints, ensuring safe and reliable operation. In this paper, coordination of these electrical and thermal systems is performed using a hierarchical control approach that decomposes the multi-energy domain, constrained optimization problem into smaller, more computationally efficient problems that can be solved in real-time. A hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) experimental testbed is used to evaluate the proposed hierarchical MPC in comparison to a baseline controller for a scaled, laboratory representation of an aircraft electro-thermal system. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms the baseline controller across a range of electrical loading in terms of both efficient energy management and constraint satisfaction.
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U2 - 10.1109/TCST.2019.2905221
DO - 10.1109/TCST.2019.2905221
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85082487493
SN - 1063-6536
VL - 28
SP - 1218
EP - 1232
JO - IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
JF - IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
IS - 4
M1 - 8689055
ER -