State of the art of electric taxiing systems

Lukic, M.; Hebala, A.; Giangrande, P.; Klumpner, C.; Nuzzo, S.; Chen, G.; Gerada, C.; Eastwick, C.; Galea, M.

Abstract

The aviation industry represents an ever-expanding economy and the aircraft market forecast reveals an optimistic growth for the coming decades. New requirements and guidelines call for a more efficient, reliable, and environment friendly aircraft operations during both airborne and ground phases. Considering on-ground operations, the electric taxiing is one of the suggested solutions for reducing the emissions and the acoustic noise in the airport, and for lowering the fuel consumption and the flight costs. This paper provides an overview of the most important existing electric taxiing systems and also presents the basic concepts related to it. Finally, detailed comparison of the different systems is given with recommendations for the future research.

Citation

Lukic, M., Hebala, A., Giangrande, P., Klumpner, C., Nuzzo, S., Chen, G., …Galea, M. (2019). State of the art of electric taxiing systems. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles & International Transportation Electrification Conference (ESARS-ITEC). https://doi.org/10.1109/ESARS-ITEC.2018.8607786

• Conference Name: 5th International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles (ESARS 2018)
• Conference Location: Nottingham, UK
• Start Date: Nov 7, 2018
• End Date: Nov 9, 2018
• Acceptance Date: Jul 26, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Jan 14, 2019
• Publication Date: Jun 14, 2019
• Deposit Date: Oct 26, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 15, 2019
• Series Title: IEEE International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles & International Transportation Electrification Conference (ESARS-ITEC)
• Book Title: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles & International Transportation Electrification Conference (ESARS-ITEC)
• Chapter Number: NA
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ESARS-ITEC.2018.8607786
• Keywords: More Electric Aircraft; Green Taxiing; Electric taxiing; Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1195109
• Publisher URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8607786
• Related Public URLs: http://www.esars-itec.org/
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