{"title":"Multi-phase fault tolerant drives for aircraft applications","authors":"M. Villani, M. Tursini, G. Fabri, L. Castellini","doi":"10.1109/ESARS.2010.5665246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESARS.2010.5665246","url":null,"abstract":"The demand for high reliability motor drives increases every day, especially in aircraft where traditional, nonelectric systems (hydraulic, pneumatic) are being replaced by electrical actuators following the More Electric Aircraft (MEA) trend. Electric drives for aerospace need a fault-tolerant design approach to achieve reliability objectives with optimized architectures reducing redundancies, over-sizing and costs. The presented work shows how fault tolerant design methodologies can be applied in two motors for typical aircraft application such as a Cart Lift System (CLS) and a Flap Actuator (FA). Analyses and tests are reported to demonstrate how the designed multi-phase motors are able to run at rated torque also with one or two phases faulted.","PeriodicalId":134406,"journal":{"name":"Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway and Ship Propulsion","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122828748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Christopher, Xiaohui Wang, M. Sumner, David W. P. Thomas, Jing Wang, Lt Frans de Wildt
{"title":"A DC distribution demonstrator incorporating Active Impedance Estimation for marine applications","authors":"E. Christopher, Xiaohui Wang, M. Sumner, David W. P. Thomas, Jing Wang, Lt Frans de Wildt","doi":"10.1109/ESARS.2010.5665219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESARS.2010.5665219","url":null,"abstract":"A small scale laboratory demonstrator has been constructed to represent a zonal DC distribution system as proposed for future naval vessels. This paper describes how the demonstrator has been used to validate a proposed fault location strategy — Active Impedance Estimation (AIE) — under experimental conditions. The practical processing algorithms required to reduce the effect of noise and the background supply harmonics are presented. The experimental results validate the AIE approach and confirm its robustness and accuracy.","PeriodicalId":134406,"journal":{"name":"Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway and Ship Propulsion","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127720184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proposal of power supply monitoring unit with CANaerospace protocol","authors":"P. Janu, R. Jalovecky","doi":"10.1109/ESARS.2010.5665208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESARS.2010.5665208","url":null,"abstract":"Recent aircraft include a sea of electric and electronic systems. These systems are very important to ensure right function of other systems and whole aircraft. Every electric facility needs suitable power supply unit. Because of that power supply unit is most important for electric systems, pilot of the aircraft or operator of the unmanned air vehicle need to know status of power supply unit. The paper is aimed to the proposal of power supply monitoring unit. Voltage measuring is quite simple, so the paper is devoted to current measuring by modern technology, to process measured values, to transmit them through bus CAN (Controller Area Network) with CANaerospace protocol to aircraft cockpit and to display to the pilot or other systems.","PeriodicalId":134406,"journal":{"name":"Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway and Ship Propulsion","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128995694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the design and the efficiency of coupled step-up dc-dc converters","authors":"M. Coppola, D. Lauria, E. Napoli","doi":"10.1109/ESARS.2010.5665221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESARS.2010.5665221","url":null,"abstract":"Step-up dc-dc converters are being extensively studied due to the diffusion of battery powered, renewable energy, traction systems and electrical power systems applications. Coupled-inductor step-up topology can be efficient when high step-up gains are required. The paper investigates the dependence of the efficiency on design parameters for a bidirectional dc-dc converter. The sliding mode control technique has been selected for controlling the dc-dc bidirectional converter, due to its intrinsic robustness against the uncertainties and disturbances. Analytical models evaluate the power losses thus allowing to calculate the converter efficiency and to make the sensitivity analysis versus the design parameters. Spice numerical simulations, performed with respect to a simple test system, allow to verify the suitability of the proposed modeling and to capture important parasitic phenomena.","PeriodicalId":134406,"journal":{"name":"Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway and Ship Propulsion","volume":"85 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127431825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Train Conformity Check System; Technology and current operation experience","authors":"F. Favo, G. Bocchetti, N. Mazzino, A. Lancia","doi":"10.1109/ESARS.2010.5665236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESARS.2010.5665236","url":null,"abstract":"An overview is given of the technology and the performance of “Train Conformity Check System”. The system provides a modular set of defect detection functions for rail vehicles, including the detection of three-dimensional profile limits violations and of overheated components. Other available defect detection systems can be integrated to identify and arrest trains with hazardous defects, to support rolling stock maintenance planning and to increase railway lines availability.","PeriodicalId":134406,"journal":{"name":"Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway and Ship Propulsion","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133190135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Francesco Flammini, A. Gaglione, Francesco Ottello, Alfio Pappalardo, Concerta Pragliola, Annarita Tedesco
{"title":"Towards Wireless Sensor Networks for railway infrastructure monitoring","authors":"Francesco Flammini, A. Gaglione, Francesco Ottello, Alfio Pappalardo, Concerta Pragliola, Annarita Tedesco","doi":"10.1109/ESARS.2010.5665249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESARS.2010.5665249","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the adoption of emerging sensing technologies for instrumentation within a variety of structural systems. Structural health monitoring systems are widely adopted to monitor the behavior of structures during forced vibration testing or natural excitation (e.g. earthquakes, winds, live loading). They can be found in a number of civil structures, including bridges and viaducts, and also in applications of vehicle health monitoring. Moreover, since infrastructures can be damaged by human originated threats, the adoption of security measures is also essential. This paper presents a proposal of an early warning system based on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) for railway infrastructure monitoring. It exploits already available research results and tools for WSN management, integration and data fusion. The aim is to hedge detection capabilities in a complete framework for structural failures as well as security threats, including both natural hazards and intentional attacks.","PeriodicalId":134406,"journal":{"name":"Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway and Ship Propulsion","volume":"6 2-3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114036619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}