Project Background

The aircraft industry is the trending towards electrification, also known as More Electric Aircraft, MEA. Electrification is expected to help the industry reach future objectives such as reduced aircraft weight, increased efficiency, lower maintenance and higher safety. In practice this means the development and implementation of a more efficient electric power distribution, more efficient and electric driven components and intelligent control of available power. Energy management will be important when more high power electric consumers, such as actuation system and sensors, are integrated in the aircraft. Therefore hardware in the loop simulations where energy management systems can be tested will be important in future design of aircrafts.