Overview of electric motor technologies used for more electric aircraft (MEA)

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3523-3531

  Cao, Wenping ^a   Mecrow, Barrie C ^a   Atkinson, Glynn J ^a   Bennett, John W ^a   Atkinson, David J ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actuators; aerospace industry; brushless PM motors; fault tolerance; more electric aircraft; multiphase machines; reliability; safety critical drives; variable speed drives

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACTUATORS; AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS; AEROSPACE INDUSTRY; ELECTRIC VEHICLES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FAULT TOLERANCE; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDRAULIC MACHINERY; REDUNDANCY; RELIABILITY; THERMOANALYSIS; TRACTION MOTORS; VARIABLE SPEED DRIVES;

AIRCRAFT APPLICATIONS; ECONOMIC IMPROVEMENTS; FAULT-TOLERANT MOTORS; MORE ELECTRIC AIRCRAFT; MULTIPHASE MACHINES; PM MOTOR; SAFETY-CRITICAL AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION (THD);

ELECTRIC DRIVES;

EID: 84860143526     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2011.2165453     Document Type: Article

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