Demo D Preparation
Abstract: The Power Electronic Power Distribution System (PEPDS) is a framework focused on power, energy, and controls. This project begins co-development of the PEPDS hardware demonstration platform with UT-Arlington and establishes bases of cost estimates. It provides validation cases and ‘new sources of truth’ to increase the confidence in equipment metamodels and measurement data to support Formal Object Classification for Understanding Ships (FOCUS) compliance.
PI: Robert Cuzner, UW-Milwaukee
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Period: Jan 2025 – Sep 2025
Budget: $60,000
Tech Candidate for Future Navy Integrated Power and Energy Corridor
Abstract: Researchers from UW-Milwaukee will work collaboratively with the Power Electronic Power Distribution System (PEPDS) Integration Team to bring a range of technologies developed on the PEPDS and Robust Combat Power Controls (RCPC) programs to higher Technical Readiness Level (TRL) in preparation for the PEPDS Future Naval Challenge (FNC) program led by the U.S. Navy. This project produces Formal Object Classification for Understanding Ships (FOCUS) compliant models for PEPDS equipment and structures for use in Smart Ship Systems Design (S3D).
PI: Robert Cuzner, UW-Milwaukee
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Period: Jan 2025 – May 2027
Budget: $650,000
NiPEC-PEPDS Solution Space Exploration and Digital Twin Based Dielectric Scaling Law and Health Prognosis
Abstract: Development of Integration Framework for PEPDS, focusing on Virtual Prototyping Process (VPP) leading to metamodels of Power Electronic Power Distribution System (PEPDS) equipment within the Navy and collaboration with Arizona State University to produce dielectric scaling laws for use within the VPP. This project develops the Integration Framework for the PEPDS use case and connects it to Florida State University System Group’s systems requirement model. It exercises the processes of incorporating synthetic models in the VPP of Power Electronic Building Block (PEBB)-based solutions and executing VPP to produce the data from which surrogate models can be derived for use within the metamodel based sizing tools. It executes size, weight, area and power versus coolant (SWAP-C) studies in Smart Ship Systems Design (S3D) for PEPDS within a Naval Integrated Power Energy Corridor (NiPEC) to identify feasible solutions, a key part of the Integration Framework.
PI: Robert Cuzner, UW-Milwaukee
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Period: May 2024 – Apr 2029
Budget: $1,200,000
PETTIS
Abstract: PETTIS (Power Energy Thermal Technologies and Integration Systems) focuses on the co-development of an equipment sizing tool with UT-Arlington for shipboard Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) suitable for the exploration of power electronics, battery technologies and thermal management approaches. The project develops and demonstrates the metamodel for present-day Navy Power and Energy Systems (NPES) size, weight, area and power versus coolant (SWAP-C) studies in Smart Ship System Design (S3D).
PI: Robert Cuzner, UW-Milwaukee
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Period: Jan 2024 – Dec 2025
Budget: $100,000
NPES Survivability
Abstract: Conducts survivability simulations of Navy Power and Energy Systems (NPES) using real-time and accelerated-time platforms and focuses on the development of quasi-transient models for use in a rapid system design environment within Smart Ship System Design (S3D). The project develops metrics of survivability and methods for survivability assessment alongside quasi-transient models for architectural evaluations under survivability events in S3D.
PI: Robert Cuzner, UW-Milwaukee
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Period: Oct 2024 – Dec 2025
Budget: $256,000
Machine Learning Based Design of Power Electronics Systems
Abstract: UW-Milwaukee researchers are working collaboratively with Eaton Corporation and Metamorph to produce surrogate models for Electric Vehicle (EV) inverters for use in a machine learning based design tool. This project focuses on the development of synthetic models for power electronics devices and electromagnetic interference (EMI) noise sources for incorporation into the Virtual Prototyping Process (VPP), and the demonstration of VPP as a means of producing data from which surrogate models can be derived.
PI: Robert Cuzner, UW-Milwaukee
Sponsor: Eaton Corporation
Industrial Participants: Metamorph
Period: Jan 2024 – Aug 2025
Budget: $274,104
Resilient Microgrids on Naval Installations by Adoption of Shipboard Zonal Distribution Philosophy Through the Use of Digital Twins
Abstract: This project focuses on development of a deployable Digital Twin based approach to ensure survivability of zonal nanogrid based microgrid for military installations using controller-hardware-in-the-loop (CHiL) platforms. The research will develop control concepts underlying architectural evaluation of zonal electrical distribution systems for shipboard systems.
PI: Robert Cuzner, UW-Milwaukee
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Period: Oct 2023 – Sep 2025
Budget: $500,000
Modeling and Design of Clean-Power Inverter Based Resources
Abstract: This project aims to understand and model the supra-harmonic content produced from the point of source of inverter-based resources. The modeling and design in this research project will form the basis of synthetic electromagnetic interference (EMI) noise models and equivalent circuit models to be utilized within the Virtual Prototyping Process (VPP). Researchers will also lay the groundwork for the design methodology that utilizes the VPP.
PI: Robert Cuzner, UW-Milwaukee
Sponsor: National Science Foundation IUCRC
Period: Jan 2023 – Dec 2026
Budget: $150,291