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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
University of Manchester : B - Electrical and Electronic Engineering
DC-bus power quality for UAV systems during generator fault conditions
This invited paper to the journal's Special Issue on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives provides the first practical assessment of how short-circuit faults across the windings of a fault-tolerant generator affect the down-stream DC bus voltage. The potential for voltage-collapse instability is identified within the DC bus when an energy storage device is present and a control technique is presented to prevent the instability. The importance of this work for the next generation DC distribution systems in future aircraft has been recognised by the sponsor Rolls-Royce in its ASTRAEA 2 programme (contact details available; DOI:10.1049/cp.2010.0048).