Special Session on More Electric Aircraft

Topics of the Session

• Advanced electrical machines and control technology: Brushless generators, starter/generators, fault tolerant motor and drives

• High power density drive systems: EHA, EMA, et al

• Ener gy co nversion devices and systems: Wide bandgap power devices, AC/DC, DC/DC, DC/AC, AC/AC, modular power converters

• Stability issues of converters and systems: large or small signal stability issues and related analysis method, impedance based stability analysis and so o n

• Ener gy ma na ge me nt of MEA: opti miza tion o f the e nergy s yste ms, renewable energy applications, and energy storage technologies

• Power quality ma na ge me nt o f MEA: power quality a nal ysis and co ntrol methods s uc h as the  passive or the active control methods, Built-in-test technology for electrical power systems,fault diagnosis and prognostics

• Reconfiguration and restoration of MEA: centralized, decentralized and distributed algorithms, multi-agent based technologies and so on·Power electronics based fault isolation method for MEA: fault characteristic analysis, circuit breaker technologies, anticipate to use power electronics and advanced controls to quickly identify and isolate fault

• Relevant simulation techniques for MEA: co-simulation, mul ti-domain si mulation a nd  hardware-in-the-loop simulation.