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Ruichen He, Florian Holzapfel, Johannes Bröcker, Yi Lai and Shuguang Zhang
The emergence of eVTOL (electrical Vertical Takeoff and Landing) aircraft necessitates the development of safe and efficient systems to meet stringent certification and operational requirements. The primary state-of-the-art technology for flight control ...
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Zoe Mbikayi, Agnes Steinert, Dominik Heimsch, Moritz Speckmaier, Philippe Rudolph, Hugh Liu and Florian Holzapfel
The use of non-piloted eVTOL aircraft in non-segregated airspace requires reliable and deterministic automatic flight guidance systems for the aircraft to remain predictable to all the users of the airspace and maintain a high level of safety. In this pa...
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Adelia Darlene Drego, Daniel Andersson and Ingo Staack
Surveillance aircraft perform long-duration missions (>eight hours) that include detection and identification of objects on the ground, the water, or in the air. They have surveillance systems that require large amounts of cooling power (typically 10 s o...
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Tobias Graf, Robin Fonk, Christiane Bauer, Josef Kallo and Caroline Willich
The climate impact of aviation can be reduced using powertrains based on hydrogen fuel cells and batteries. Combining both technologies in a direct-hybrid without a DC/DC converter is a promising approach for light-weight systems. Depending on the power ...
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Jenica-Ileana Corcau, Liviu Dinca, Grigore Cican, Adriana Ionescu, Mihai Negru, Radu Bogateanu and Andra-Adelina Cucu
The increase in greenhouse gas emissions, as well as the risk of fossil fuel depletion, has prompted a transition to electric transportation. The European Union aims to substantially reduce pollutant emissions by 2035 through the use of renewable energie...
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Pau Bas-Calopa, Jordi-Roger Riba and Juan Antonio Ortega
Strict regulations issued by international administrative bodies limit the CO2 equivalent emissions for new aircraft, while increasing efficiency requirements. To reach this goal, next generations of aircraft will use more electrical power than their pre...
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Fawaz Yahya Annaz and Malaka Miyuranga Kaluarachchi
The power to move aircraft control surfaces has advanced from being manually generated (by the pilot and transmitted via rods and links) to electrically transmitted (via wires) to operate control surface actuators. Various hydraulic, electromagnetic, and...
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Maria Coutinho, Frederico Afonso, Alain Souza, David Bento, Ricardo Gandolfi, Felipe R. Barbosa, Fernando Lau and Afzal Suleman
The electrification of an aircraft?s propulsive system is identified as a potential solution towards a lower carbon footprint in the aviation industry. One of the effects of increased electrification is the generation of a large amount of waste heat that...
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Davide Ferretto and Nicole Viola
This paper introduces the concept of a thermal management system (TMS) with integrated on-board power generation capabilities for a Mach 8 hypersonic aircraft powered by liquid hydrogen (LH2). This work, developed within the EU-funded STRATOFLY Project, ...
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Mikhail Shubov
This paper is concerned with the idea of a significant improvement of state-of-the-art short-range rockets by means of using rocket artillery systems. Such a system consists of a rocket launcher aircraft (RLA) and a drone-launched short range rocket (DLS...
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