The increasing demands for reducing greenhouse emissions and improving fuel efficiency
of marine transportation have presented opportunities for electric ships. Due to the …

At sea, the electrical power system of a ship can be considered as an islanded microgrid.
When connected to shore power at berth, the same power system acts as a grid connected …

This paper performs an extensive review on control schemes and architectures applied to dc
microgrids (MGs). It covers multilayer hierarchical control schemes, coordinated control …

A distributed control method is proposed to simultaneously optimize the power sharing
among sources of islanded dc microgrids, while regulating the distribution bus voltage …

There are tradeoffs between current sharing among distributed resources and DC bus
voltage stability when conventional droop control is used in DC microgrids. As current …

Abstract The design of Shipboard Power Systems (SPSs) needs careful consideration of a
variety of system specifications, operating constraints and design requirements under …

The increasing demands of reducing fuel consumption for marine transportation have
motivated the use of high fuel efficiency power plants and the development of power …

The efficient utilization of energy is of high importance for shipboard applications, for
environmental and economic reasons as well as maximized vessel operation. The …

Distributed secondary control plays an important role in dc microgrids, since it ensures
system control objectives, which are power sharing and dc-bus voltage stability. Previous …

Load sharing, circulation current, and bus voltage regulation are the main challenges of
parallel converters operation in DC microgrids. For its simplicity, a droop controller is …