Intelligent Control and Stability Management of Aerospace Propulsion Systems
A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2026 | Viewed by 44
Special Issue Editors
Interests: intelligent automation for aerospace and renewables; control and diagnostics for aeroengines, rockets, spacecraft, UAVs, batteries, and power electronics
Interests: aeroengine performance analytics, diagnostics, and control
Interests: aerospace cyber-physical systems (UAS, avionics/ATM systems and satellites)
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Interests: condition monitoring, fault diagnosis and the development of data analysis and machine learning techniques
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays, aerospace propulsion systems, including aeroengines, rocket motors, and electric propulsion systems, are becoming progressively diverse and widely adopted in both civil and defense applications. As the primary power source for airborne platforms, the complexity of propulsion systems is increasing, making their performance and reliability essential to overall system dependability and flight safety. Moreover, due to system complexity, unique mission requirements, and extreme operational environments, issues and challenges related to propulsion system performance—such as control, reliability, and stability—are attracting growing attention from both academia and industry.
Emerging methodologies—particularly artificial intelligence (including deep learning and reinforcement learning), intelligent automation, digital twin, big data analytics, advanced control and optimization theories, and edge-cloud collaborative computing—are enabling intelligent solutions with capabilities such as smart sensing, environmental perception, autonomous decision-making, optimal control, health management, and predictive maintenance to address these challenges.
This Special Issue invites the latest research and novel solutions in Intelligent Control and Stability Management of Aerospace Propulsion Systems from academics, researchers, and industry professionals. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
- Integrated Health Management for Aerospace Propulsion Systems: Monitoring, Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Performance Analytics;
- Intelligent Control Theories and Applications for Aerospace Propulsion Systems: Stability, Adaptation, and Fault-Tolerance;
- Test, Measurement, and Control of Rocket Propulsion Systems;
- Intelligent Control for the Safety and Reliability of Electrical Propulsion Systems;
- Intelligent Mode Transition and Stability Control for Combined Cycle Aerospace Propulsion Systems;
- Distributed Intelligent Control and System Integration for More-Electric/All-Electric Aero Engines.
Dr. Zhaohui Cen
Dr. Yuzhi Chen
Dr. Alessandro Gardi
Dr. Yu (Eve) Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- intelligent control
- reliability
- stability management
- aerospace propulsion
- rockets
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