Modules

Prerequisites

Contents

Air transport of the future will have to be more climate friendly. The lecture provides an overview of the technological development required to guarantee the reliable, safe, and environmentaly friendly performance of novel hybrid or purely electrified engines for civil aircraft. In parallel, the course will introduce control theoretical topics motivated by the application. • Motivation - FADEC and the Control of Aeronautical Propulsion • Modeling and Control of Individual Components • Electric Machines and Power Electronics • Thermal Management (Heat Exchanger) • Fuel Cell Systems • Energy Storage Devices • High-level control • Integration with the Aircraft Control System • Certification Requirements and Processes

Learning outcomes

The students will get a deeper understanding of the challenges presented by the need to control electrified aeronautical propulsion systems. They will learn to formulate mathematical models of the components involved in the control system, analyze the behavior of those models, and develop controllers for such components using linear and non-linear methods.

Assessment

Prerequisite: • There will be bi-weekly homework assignments. The estimated time required for each assignment is about 4 hours. To be allowed for the final exam, students must submit at least 75% of the assignments. Final exam: • 90 mins written OR 20 min oral presentation. At the start of the semester it will be announced, if the examination will be offered in written or oral form.