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Background and Vision Statement. The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate (SEDD) works in many areas crucial to the success of the future Army, providing fundamental research to give commanders real-time situational awareness; rapid and precise discrimination and targeting; highly compact, lightweight energy sources; as well as mitigating techniques for use against hostile enemy threats. As part of the Army’s strategic plan to transform its field operations into a more strategically responsive force, the Army is actively engaged in efforts to develop a family of manned and unmanned ground weapons systems under the Future Combat Systems program. A key factor in the development and demonstration of FCS platforms is the development of high power density, high temperature traction drive systems. The Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has been charged with the responsibility of developing technologies that will enable FCS demonstrations. This Cooperative Agreement will allow the DoD to utilize a new class of high power motor drives that will positively impact FCS designs.
Background and Vision Statement. The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate (SEDD) works in many areas crucial to the success of the future Army, providing fundamental research to give commanders real-time situational awareness; rapid and precise discrimination and targeting; highly compact, lightweight energy sources; as well as mitigating techniques for use against hostile enemy threats. SatCon will perform its best research to systematically investigate the design, optimization, performance limits, and technology barriers of high-power power conversion systems for future Army applications. This effort will target (but is not limited to) power conversion systems in the 500 kW output power class with nominal input voltages of 600 VDC. Topic areas covered by this effort include, but are not limited to: optimization of circuit topology, optimization of control strategies, identification of component technologies, evaluation and design of thermal management systems, evaluation and design of advanced packaging concepts, failure analysis and repair, and power conversion system development.