Electrical power generation in aircraft: Review, challenges, and opportunities

V Madonna, P Giangrande… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The constant growth of air traffic, the demand for performance optimization, and the need for
decreasing both operating and maintenance costs have encouraged the aircraft industry to …

Design and control of a two-phase brushless exciter for aircraft wound-rotor synchronous starter/generator in the starting mode

N Jiao, W Liu, T Meng, J Peng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The structure and control strategy of a novel two-phase brushless main exciter (ME) are
proposed in this paper to solve the excitation problem of the main generator (MG) when the …

A review of conventional and new-generation aircraft starter/generators in perspective of electric drive applications

E Öksüztepe, U Kaya, H Kurum - Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose More electric aircraft (MEA) is defined as the extensive usage of electric power in
aircraft. The demand for electric power in new generation aircraft rises due to environmental …

Field current estimation for wound-rotor synchronous starter–generator with asynchronous brushless exciters

N Jiao, W Liu, Z Zhang, T Meng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate information about the field current of the wound-rotor synchronous starter
generator (WRSSG) is prerequisite for optimal start control research for WRSSG in the …

Small-signal impedance modeling and analysis of variable-frequency AC three-stage generator for more electric aircraft

S Wang, X Ruan, Y He, Z Lin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the penetration of power electronics in more electric aircraft (MEA) power systems, the
number of constant power loads continues increasing and the characteristics of negative …

Steady‐state performance evaluations of three‐phase brushless asynchronous excitation system for aircraft starter/generator

Z Zhang, W Liu, D Zhao, S Mao… - IET Electric Power …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This study proposes a novel mathematical model based on excitation system output
equations (ESOEs) to evaluate the steady‐state performance of the three‐phase brushless …

Identification of TBAES rotating diode failure

Z Zhang, W Liu, J Peng, D Zhao, T Meng… - IET Electric Power …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This study focuses on the identification of the rotating diode failures of an aircraft wound‐
field synchronous starter–generator system. Owing to the difference in topography between …

Detailed excitation control methods for two-phase brushless exciter of the wound-rotor synchronous starter/generator in the starting mode

N Jiao, W Liu, T Meng, J Peng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An integrated starter/generator based on the wound-rotor synchronous machine is
becoming increasingly popular in modern aircraft due to the advantages of high safety and …

Fault diagnosis of rotating rectifier based on waveform distortion and polarity of current

Z Wei, W Liu, J Pang, C Sun, Z Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a rotating rectifier fault detection method is proposed and tested, by using the
differences between the total harmonic distortion (THD) and polarity of asynchronous exciter …

Performance of brushless induction excited synchronous generator

C Chakraborty, YT Rao - … of Emerging and Selected Topics in …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reports a brushless induction excited synchronous generator. An induction
machine (IM) and a synchronous machine (SM) are embedded in the same machine frame …