Novel Gun Hardened Energy Management System

The main objective of this project is the development of a novel energy system for emplaced munitions that can reliably meet its relatively low power requirements of the order of 10 mW for a period of 30 days and that could also provide several high-pulsed power requirements of the munitions that are around 1 second long and no more than 500 mA on demand over this period. The proposed energy system is provided with a long-run reserve battery to provide the required low power and several thigh power reserve batteries that are individual initiated to provide the required high-power pulses. The energy system is provided with a “smart energy management” system, which is used to control the generation, storage and flow of electrical energy on demand and to minimize the total munitions energy consumption as thereby the overall energy system size. The proposed energy system is configured and packaged for minimal susceptibility to EMI and EMP. The use of reserve power sources ensures shelf life of over 20 years, shock survivability of over 100,000 Gs, and meeting the military operational and storage temperature requirements of -65 to 165 deg. F.