There is a growing trend in aircraft electrification, which can reduce green-house gas emissions, reduce audible noise, reduce maintenance needs, lower cost, and improve safety. Moving from mechanical, pneumatic, and hydraulic power to electric power requires architecture changes, more electric power, and improvements in electric power generation, distribution, and conversion. … [Read more...] about Wide Bandgap Semiconductor-Based Power Electronics for Aviation
Power systems
A Novel High-Speed Sensorless Faulty Panel Detection Technique for an SPV String/Array
Energy generating systems transcending into the renewable and clean fuel domain has put solar photovoltaic (SPV) systems in an unprecedented position of importance in the fuel and energy sector. However, lower efficiencies offered by these systems in comparison with traditional power generating systems such as coal-fired plants, has demanded the use of multiple techniques to … [Read more...] about A Novel High-Speed Sensorless Faulty Panel Detection Technique for an SPV String/Array
Virtual APEC 2021 Illuminates Emerging Technologies and Trends
For safety and well-being of conference participants, the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC) was held virtually from 14–17 June, 2021, on the virtual event platform Social27, with on demand access starting the week of 7 June. The on-demand recordings include technical session lectures and dialogues (poster sessions), industry sessions, and … [Read more...] about Virtual APEC 2021 Illuminates Emerging Technologies and Trends
Rethinking the Power Delivery Networks of Mobile Robots
There are complex power system design and architecture considerations in the power delivery networks (PDN) of mobile robots, autonomous vehicles, and distributed static robots. This is due to the variation in the battery power source voltage plus the broad variety of loads that may be part of a typical system, such as, high-power AI computing systems, motor drives, sensors, … [Read more...] about Rethinking the Power Delivery Networks of Mobile Robots
Expert View: The Time for Software Defined Power Is Now
Reports on software defined power and its impact on current and future energy markets, data centers, new autonomous technologies, and computing power needs. The infrastructure is dominated by hardware and suppliers that are focused on devices that solve pinpointed problems—smaller, cheaper, and more efficient are typically the leading “values” of the solutions. That is what … [Read more...] about Expert View: The Time for Software Defined Power Is Now
