Medium Voltage Direct Current (MVDC) distribution is an enabling technology for future large ships, e.g. cruise liners or military vessels. In MVDC systems, shipboard loads are normally fed through power-converters directly connected to the MVDC bus. For such systems a key design goal is voltage stability, impaired by the presence of high-bandwidth controlled loads (Constant Power Loads, CPLs). The paper proposes an approach to stabilize the MVDC bus using the generating systems as sources of stabilizing power. Fast controlled DC/DC converters, interfacing generators to MVDC bus, are employed to control it in a stable way and to provide power sharing among the generators. To this aim, an Active Damping method is exploited. A supplementary Linearization via State Feedback control is utilized to stabilize DC/DC load converters feeding particularly impacting CPLs. Proposed controls are verified by means of time-domain numerical simulations. Shipboard feasibility and performance of the proposed control systems are most considered in the work as conclusions.
