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This series of papers addresses, for the first time, the synthesis, optimization, simulation and analysis of a controllable circuit breaker mechanism. The result of this design is a controllable residential circuit breaker that can be used in a residential load management scheme.
This paper presents the motivation and background for this research,...
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... The Computer Aided Home Energy Management System (CAHEMS) funded at West Virginia University by the Allegheny Power System implements this type of control scheme. The CAHEMS involves the control and sensing of the existing branch circuits in the house connected to the breaker panel (see Figure 1). The ability to control and sense these circuits was most easily accomplished by the use of controllable circuit breakers (CCBs) incorporating current sensors such as those developed by CAHEMS [16]. ...
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... Dimensional synthesis and optimization seek to determine the significant dimensions and the starting position of a mechanism of preconceived type and prescribed performance [2]. The mechanism's 'prescribed performance defined in the problem definition and its preconceived type determined through type synthesis were presented in part I [8] of this study. ...
This paper is the second of a series of three papers which addresses the synthesis of a controllable circuit breaker. It presents the dimensional synthesis and optimization phase of the synthesis problem.
In the dimensional synthesis, the equality and inequality constraints were determined and the variable types assigned. The specified design space was then searched to see if any solutions existed. Once a mechanism: was found to have a solution in the design space, an optimization was performed to determine which of the mechanism configurations was optimal with respect to the criteria of desirability using a modified McArthur's exploratory Monte Carlo method.
