Electric Machine Design and Fault Diagnosis for Electric Aircraft Propulsion in the Context of the Engineering Research Center for the Aerial Mobility of the Future

The climate changes are motivating many technological advances towards the electrification of aerial mobility solutions. Among the new technology solutions needed to face this issue, the design of reliable electric motors for aircraft propulsion and the development of fault diagnosis techniques to detect and isolate possible machine failures during its operation are of great importance. Recently, the Engineering Research Center for the Aerial Mobility of the Future (CPE-MAF, from Portuguese Centro de Pesquisa em Engenharia para a Mobilidade Aerea do Futuro) was released in Brazil to study many problems related with the future of aviation, including electric motor design and fault diagnosis in electric machines. In this paper, some considerations about how these aspects will be conducted in the CPE- MAF are discussed and the main objectives related to these problems in this new Research Center are listed.