Shipboard power systems are increasingly complex with multiple integrated subsystems, making traditional design and analysis approaches insufficient. This work is innovative in providing a generic modeling environment that supports multiple simulation tools and enables cross-platform operations while maintaining semantic consistency across different engineering domains.
This paper proposes a generic modeling and analysis framework for shipboard power system design, enabling the integration of components from different domains (electrical, mechanical, thermal) into a unified simulation environment. The approach facilitates cross-domain analysis and design optimization through a Model Integrated Computing (MIC) paradigm.
The framework demonstrates integration with multiple simulation tools including Matlab, Simulink, PSCAD, and VTB, enabling comprehensive analysis of shipboard power system scenarios. The approach provides a meta-level abstraction that allows designers to capture system complexity across domains and perform holistic analysis and validation of system performance under various operating conditions.
@inproceedings{Shi2013,
author = {Shi}, J. and {Amgai}, R. and {Abdelwahed}, S. and Dubey, Abhishek and {Humphreys}, J. and {Alattar}, M. and {Jia}, R.},
booktitle = {2013 IEEE Electric Ship Technologies Symposium (ESTS)},
title = {Generic modeling and analysis framework for shipboard system design},
year = {2013},
month = {apr},
pages = {420-428},
abstract = {This paper proposes a novel modeling and simulation environment for ship design based on the principles of Model Integrated Computing (MIC). The proposed approach facilitates the design and analysis of shipboard power systems and similar systems that integrate components from different fields of expertise. The conventional simulation platforms such as Matlab{\textregistered}, Simulink{\textregistered}, PSCAD{\textregistered} and VTB{\textregistered} require the designers to have explicit knowledge of the syntactic and semantic information of the desired domain within the tools. This constraint, however, severely slows down the design and analysis process, and causes cross-domain or cross-platform operations remain error prone and expensive. Our approach focuses on the development of a modeling environment that provides generic support for a variety of application across different domains by capturing modeling concepts, composition principles and operation constraints. For the preliminary demonstration of the modeling concept, in this paper we limit the scope of design to cross-platform implementations of the proposed environment by developing an application model of a simplified shipboard power system and using Matlab engine and VTB solver separately to evaluate the performance with different respects. In the case studies a fault scenario is pre-specified and tested on the system model. The corresponding time domain bus voltage magnitude and angle profiles are generated via invoking external solver, displayed to users and then saved for future analysis.},
category = {workshop},
contribution = {minor},
doi = {10.1109/ESTS.2013.6523770},
file = {:Shi2013-Generic_modeling_and_analysis_framework_for_shipboard_system_design.pdf:PDF},
issn = {null},
keywords = {model integrated computing, shipboard systems, power systems design, cross-domain modeling, simulation, systems engineering},
tag = {platform,power},
month_numeric = {4}
}