Electro-Mechanical Actuators for Safety-Critical Aerospace Applications (2nd Edition)

Dear Colleagues,

Aircraft electrification is one of the most important and strategic initiatives currently supporting the innovation of the aviation industry. This manifests in the well-known more-electric aircraft concept (with the ultimate aim of achieving the all-electric long-term target), which aims at the gradual replacement of onboard systems based on mechanical, hydraulic, or pneumatic power sources with electrically powered ones in order to reduce the weight and the costs, to optimize the energy, and to increase the eco-compatibility and the reliability of future aircraft.

A key technological enabler for pursuing these challenging objectives is the electro-mechanical actuation. The applicability of electro-mechanical actuators (EMAs) in aerospace has been proven in terms of dynamic performances; however, it still entails several concerns in terms of reliability/safety as well of operation in harsh environments. In civil aircraft, EMAs are often avoided for safety-critical functions (flight controls, brakes, landing gears, nose wheel steering), essentially because the statistical database on components fault modes is poor.

Following the relevant success achieved by a previous volume with the same title (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/aerospace/special_issues/Electro_mechanical_actuators), this Special Issue is focused on advancements and innovations in the design, the architectural definition, the reliability/safety analysis, the control design, the condition-monitoring and the experimental testing of EMAs for safety-critical aerospace applications.

We encourage the submission of research papers on the above topics, as we are strongly interested in works that could speed up the progress toward more-electric flights.

Dr. Gianpietro Di Rito
Guest Editor

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