Università Roma Tre

Energy storage systems and their applications in the aerospace field. High-temperature electrochemical energy storage systems. Supercapacitors. Lithium-based energy storage systems, management, protections, and standards. Hydrogen energy storage.
Power converter configurations, fault-tolerance operation.

Electrical machines, operation, architectures, and fault-tolerance capabilities.

Configuration of the on-board electrical grids.

Propulsion architectures and electric power generation on board aircraft, from conventional to hybrid and full-electric powertrains. Hybrid parallel and series. Partially electric series and parallel.

Sizing of storage systems, series, and parallel configurations. Application examples on unmanned aircraft. Battery Management Systems.

Trends in aeronautical electric propulsion.

Ground Power Units (GPU).

Matlab/Simulink as well as National Instruments LabVIEW software will be used during lessons.
Real-Time simulation of electrical systems by Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) platforms will be shown during the course: from model design to solver deployment.

Notes provided by the course manager.

Electrified Aircraft Propulsion, Powering the Future of Air Transportation
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/electrified-aircraft-propulsion/884EFFF96836F6E3E8529EF6A0B78200

Transportation Electrification: Breakthroughs in Electrified Vehicles, Aircraft, Rolling Stock, and Watercraft
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/book/9989444 (Available from the University Library)

Fundamentals of Electric Aircraft
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/book/8854887