Dear Colleagues,

Transportation electrification is considered as one of the key approaches to address global environmental concerns and to achieve sustainable future. In the aviation sector, long-term roadmap ACARE Flightpath 2050 targets a 75% reduction of CO₂ and 90% of NO_X emissions per passenger per kilometre. Achieving these challenging goals requires reconsideration of the underlying concepts of future aircraft. Many new aircraft types are now being developed, spanning from small drones and urban air vehicles to large passenger aircrafts. All these significantly rely on green electric energy, from adopting new electrically-driven secondary onboard systems to hybrid-electric and fully-electric primary propulsive systems. As such, onboard electric power systems (EPS) need to adopt these changes and become the backbone of future electrified aircraft. Therefore, it is essential to establish routes towards safe, reliable and highly efficient airborne EPS operation.

This Special Issue will address control challenges in future aircraft EPS, and papers investigating innovations is this area are invited. Topics may include but not be limited to EPS global and local control strategies, architectural solutions, power and energy management and optimisation, power routing and reconfiguration, electric power quality and stability issues.

Prof. Serhiy Bozhko
Guest Editor

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• electric power system
• aircraft
• control
• architecture
• energy management
• power quality
• stability