Recent Developments and Trends in High-Performance PMSM for Aeronautical Applications

Nicola Bianchi (Fellow, IEEE), received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, in 1991 and 1995, respectively. In 1998, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering of the same University, and since 2018, he has been a Full Professor in Electrical Machines, Converters, and Drives. His activity is at the Electric Drive Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, of the University of Padova. His teaching activity deals with electrical machine design, introducing the finite element analysis of the machines, and control of electric drives. His research activity is in the field of design and control of electrical machines, especially for variable speed applications. He is the author and co-author of more than 200 scientific papers on electrical machines and drives and two international books on the same subject. He is the recipient of nine Best Paper awards. Prof. Bianchi is also a member of the Electric Mach

Prof. Zhuoran Zhang is the dean of the School of Civil Aviation at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is also the director of the Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of New Energy Power Generation and Power Conversion, the chairman of the first committee of the Aviation Electrification Committee of the China Electrotechnical Society, a director of the China Aeronautical Society, and a senior member of the IEEE. He was a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) and the deputy chief designer of the C919 aircraft of COMAC. He has been engaged in the research of electrical systems of multi-electric/all-electric aircraft, aviation electric propulsion, new energy power generation, and electric drive technology for a long time.