• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.103-108
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• 2015

The electric utility has the responsibility of reducing the impact of peaks on electricity demand and related costs. Therefore, they have introduced Direct Load Control System (DLCS) to automate the external control of shedding customer load that it controls. Since the number of customer load participating in the DLC program are keep increasing, DLCS operators a re facing difficulty in monitoring and controlling customer load. The existing DLCS needs constant operator intervention, e.g., whenever the load is about to exceed a predefined amount, it needs operator's intervention to control the on/off status of the load. Therefore, DLCS operators need the state-of-the-art DLCS, which can control automatically the on/off status of the customer load without intervention as much as possible. This paper presents an intelligent DLCS using the active database. The proposed DLCS is applying the active database to DLCS which can avoid operator's intervention as much as possible. To demonstrate the validity of the proposed system, variable production rules and intelligent demand controller are presented.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2013

지금 사용되는 제어기의 제어방식은 220V 고전압을 일대 일로 직접 신호등에 전달하는 스위치방식이다. 이 방식은 감전위험, 누설전류, 보행공간 침해, 미관 저하 등 많은 단점이 있다. 이에 따라 교통신호기의 제어방식이 디지털로 전환되는 노력이 이루어지고 있으며, 신호등과 신호기와의 디지털 통신 체계가 그 핵심으로 부상하고 있다. 본 논문은 이러한 디지털방식의 신호제어를 위해 필요한 통신체계를 개발하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 먼저 신호등을 포함한 다양한 신호기 주변장치와 특별한 메시지에 대하여 CAN 식별자(ID)를 할당하였다. 또한 이 할당된 식별자(ID)기반으로 신호등에 대한 제어정보를 전달하고 제어상태 피드백을 수집하는 CAN 기반 신호제어 프로토콜을 구성하였다. 이 통신체계의 검증을 위해 소프트웨어 모의실험시스템을 제작하여 신호제어에 활용 가능함을 검증하였다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제6권6호
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• pp.750-759
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• 2011

This paper focuses on the control of bidirectional power flow in the electric shipboard power systems, especially in the Medium-Voltage Direct Current (MVDC) shipboard power system. Bidirectional power control between the main MVDC bus and the local zones can improve the energy efficiency and control flexibility of electric ship systems. However, since the MVDC system contains various nonlinear loads such as pulsed power load and radar in various subsystems, the voltage of the MVDC and the local zones varies significantly. This voltage variation affects the control performance of the bidirectional DC-DC converters as exogenous disturbances. To improve the control performance regardless of uncertainties and disturbances, this paper proposes a novel controller design method of the bidirectional DC-DC converters using $L_1$ control theory and intelligent optimization algorithm. The performance of the proposed method is verified via large-scale real-time digital simulation of a notional shipboard MVDC power system.