Development of a high-bandwidth active load for an aircraft electrical systems evaluation platform

Author

Chivite-Zabalza, F.J. ; Forsyth, A.J. ; Calvignac, J. ; Long, Shipeng

Author_Institution

Ingeteam Power Technol. S.A., Zamudio, Spain

fYear

2014

fDate

8-10 April 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper describes the development of an active load for a 100 kVA, ±270 V dc electrical systems evaluation platform for uninhabited autonomous vehicles, typically airborne. The 30 kW, 3 kHz bandwidth active loads emulate in real time the dynamic behaviour at the dc-bus side of typical aerospace equipment, providing a flexible and cost-effective method of evaluating complex system interactions. This paper, which focuses on the design of the high-bandwidth dc-dc converter, covers the thermal design of the power semiconductors for 20 kHz hard-switching operation, the input and output filter design and the converter modelling and control design. All this is supported by experimental results that validate the design.

Keywords

DC-DC power convertors; aircraft power systems; autonomous aerial vehicles; thermal engineering; aerospace equipment; aircraft electrical system evaluation platform; apparent power 100 kVA; bandwidth 3 kHz; complex system interaction evaluation; control design; converter modelling; dc electrical systems evaluation platform; dc-bus side; frequency 20 kHz; high-bandwidth DC-DC converter; high-bandwidth active load; input-output filter design; power 30 kW; power semiconductors; thermal design; uninhabited autonomous vehicles; DC-DC power convertors; Hardware in the Loop simulation; aircraft electrical systems; aircraft power systems; electrical systems evaluation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2014), 7th IET International Conference on

Conference_Location

Manchester

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-84919-815-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/cp.2014.0385

Filename

6836787