Intelligent power allocation and load management of more electric aircraft

Intelligent power allocation and load management systems have been playing an increasingly important role in aircrafts whose electrical network systems are getting more and more complex. Load shedding used to be the main means of aircraft power management. But the increasing number of electrical components and the emphasis of safety and human comfort call for more resilient power management. In this paper we present a novel power allocation and scheduling formulation which aims for minimum load shedding and optimal generator operational profiles. The problem is formulated as a mixed integer quadratic programming (MIQP) problem and solved by CPLEX optimization tool.