Active compensator prototyping tools for electric ship applications

Future naval electric distribution systems will require compensation of harmonic distortion caused by numerous power electronic converters. Active compensation with various control methods and active compensator configurations have been proposed as a solution. In order to efficiently evaluate the various options, prototyping tools and procedures are developed. Namely, a hardware-in-the-loop prototyping tool is developed using commercially available hardware and software from National Instruments. It allows the developer to evaluate performance of a DSP based digital controller without the need to complete the entire hardware prototype of the active compensator.