Aircraft electrification is currently the best alternative to address the rising demand for more
air transportation and deal with anticipated economic and environmental impacts. Although …

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions has become a priority for civil transport aviation. One
of the possible solutions investigated by current aeronautics research is the introduction of …

The idea of electric propulsion for transportation is not new; indeed, the first cars, nearly 200
years ago, were electric. However, our dependence on fossil fuels over the last 100 years is …

Electrification of the propulsion system has opened the door to a new paradigm of
propulsion system configurations and novel aircraft designs, which was never envisioned …

The emergence of distributed electric propulsion (DEP) concepts for aircraft systems has
enabled new capabilities in the overall efficiency, capabilities, and robustness of future air …

To achieve benefits similar to those seen in hybrid‐/all‐electric ground‐based and marine
vehicles, electric propulsion has been proposed for large commercial aircraft. Among the …

More electric aircraft (MEA) architectures consist of several subsystems, which must all
comply with the settled safety requirements of aerospace applications. Thus, achieving …

In recent decades, extensive research has been conducted on the electrification of
commercial aircraft to reduce the dependence on mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic …

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) propulsion technology is significantly related to the flight
performance of UAVs, which has become one of the most important development directions …

Multilevel inverters such as the flying capacitor multilevel inverter (FCML) hold large
potential benefit in applications where the size and weight of the inverter is constrained. This …