The NASA Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio has completed the development and integration of a Power Management and Distribution (PMAD) DC Testbed. This testbed is a reduced scale representation of the end to end, sources to loads, Space Station Freedom Electrical Power System (SSF EPS). This unique facility is being used to demonstrate DC power generation and distribution, power management and control, and system operation techniques considered to be prime candidates for the Space Station Freedom. A key capability of the testbed is its ability to be configured to address system level issues in support of critical SSF program design milestones. Electrical power system control and operation issues like source control, source regulation, system fault protection, end-to-end system stability, health monitoring, resource allocation and resource management are being evaluated in the testbed.The SSF EPS control functional allocation between on-board computers and ground based systems is evolving. Initially, ground based systems will perform the bulk of power system control and operation. The EPS control system is required to continuously monitor and determine the current state of the power system. The DC Testbed Control System consists of standard controllers arranged in a hierarchical and distributed architecture. These controllers provide all the monitoring and control functions for the DC Testbed Electrical Power System. Higher level controllers include the Power Management Controller, Load Management Controller, Operator Interface System, and a network of computer systems that perform some of the SSF Ground Based Control Center Operation. The lower level controllers include Main Bus Switch Controllers and Photovoltaic Controllers.Power system status information is periodically provided to the higher level controllers to perform system control and operation. The data acquisition function of the control system is distributed among the various levels of the hierarchy. Data requirements are dictated by the control system algorithms being implemented at each level. This paper presents a functional description of the various levels of the testbed control system architecture and describes the data acquisition function and the status of its implementation.


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    Titel :

    Description of the SSF PMAD DC Testbed Control System Data Acquisition Function


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Beteiligte:

    Kongress:

    27th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference (1992) ; 1992



    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1992-08-03




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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