Optimal Power Conversion and Energy Storage System for Safe and Reliable Urban Air Mobility

Improving the energy storage capacity system in electric aircraft as well as overall load capacity is instrumental in urban air mobility. The EU-funded OPENSRUM project focuses on improving the power conversion efficiency in electric aircraft and designing a smart wireless battery management system with accurate battery state-of-charge (SoC) and state-of-health (SoH) estimations. The project will increase the voltage of the lithium-ion battery packs to reduce current rating and cable weight, while identifying a power converter topology to maximise overall efficiency. OPENSRUM will explore data-driven methods based on machine learning to improve the accuracy of the state estimations.