Mr. Terry Ericsen has been with the U.S. Navy in several engineering research positions –from Cooperative Engineering Student to Program Officer – from 1970 to present. He was a Principal

Investigator on several research projects to develop advanced power devices, circuits, equipment, and systems and the Project Manager on ONR’s Power Electronic Building Block program. Currently, Mr. Ericsen is a Program Officer for Electrical Science and Technology with the Office of Naval Research and Leader of the Advanced Electrical Power Systems Thrust. He has authored numerous papers.

A Novel Approach to Modeling and Development of Naval Vehicular Systems

 

Using intelligent controllers and partitioning the system based on the physics of the materials, components, and methods of manufacture can produce building blocks, which allow systems to be designed, built, and operated in a rational predictable manner. It does not matter that your point of view is embedded systems or system of systems. A new "relational" design process is needed, enabled by physics-based modeling and simulation. Physics-based analysis, founded on the nature of the materials and their manufacturing processes, will enable statistics from all of industry to be garnered in support of engineering justification and reliability assurance. Instead of complicating the design, power electronics can be used to simplify complex systems. The model will become the specification, replacing documents and reducing ambiguity.

The establishment of public libraries with model-based specifications, standards, benchmarks, and validation tools is a cornerstone of this approach.

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