Call for Papers
IEEE Transactions on Transportation
Electrification (TTE)
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Special Issue on More Electric Aircraft
Future aircraft will be progressively electrified. This trend is also known as more “electric aircraft (MEA).” This trend is
motivated by improving a variety of aircraft characteristics, such as fuel economy, noise reduction, reliability, maintenance
costs, and emissions. Efficiency, weight, and volume are of key importance for the fuel economy. The integrated drive
generator and the bleed air for the environmental control systems have already been eliminated in some modern aircraft
with the intent to potentially increase the efficiency and reliability. In addition, other capabilities such as electric taxi, gaselectric propulsion, electrified flight control, and landing systems are envisaged for future airplanes. As a result, power
electronic converters and electric machines will increasingly become more important in modern aircraft. The key points for
the aerospace industry are reliability, weight, volume, fault redundancy, and performance of the power electronic
converters and electric machines.
In recent years, significant research has been done to make power converters more reliable. This includes not only the
reliability of power switches and drivers, but also fault-tolerant converters, real-time fault detection, and dynamic
reconfiguration of power electronic converters. Furthermore, recent developments on wide bandgap semiconductors will
allow reducing losses, weight, and volume. The challenges are still to run these converters, including drivers and sensors,
in higher temperatures and in a reliable fashion. Emerging high-temperature, high-speed machines provide new
opportunities to improve the power density of the total drive system. System engineering is definitely necessary during the
design procedure to optimize the overall electromechanical conversion and power system.
This special issue intends to collect scientific and technical papers dealing with more electric aircraft. Authors from both
academia and industry are invited to submit manuscripts for review for publication in this special issue. Original research
and practical contributions as well as surveys and state-of-the-art tutorials are welcome. Topics of interest include (but are
not limited to):
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Optimal design of electric systems for MEA: electric taxi, gas-electric propulsion, flight control system, landing system,
and steering system
Reliability assessment of electric systems for MEA
Fault-tolerant power converters and drives for MEA
Fault detection and dynamic reconfiguration of power electronic converters for MEA
Wide bandgap semiconductors: reliability and control for MEA
Power management and stability of DC and AC power systems for MEA
High-temperature and high-speed electric machines for MEA
Superconducting machines for MEA
New electric sources and storage elements for MEA
Submission of Manuscripts to the Transactions:
All manuscripts must be submitted through Manuscript Central at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tte-ieee. Submissions
must be clearly marked “Special Issue on More Electric Aircraft” on the cover page. When uploading your paper, please
also select the “Special Issue on More Electric Aircraft.” Refer to http://www.ieee-pels.org/publications/ieee-transactionson-transportation-electrification for general information about electronic submission through Manuscript Central.
Important Dates:
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Full Paper Submission Deadline: October 31, 2016 November 30, 2016
Expected Publication Date: June 2017
Guest Editors:
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Dr. Bulent Sarlioglu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA ([email protected])
Dr. Babak Nahid-Mobarakeh, Université de Lorraine, France ([email protected])
Editor-in-Chief:
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Prof. Ali Emadi, McMaster University, Canada ([email protected])