Title :
Electric drive system for a sailplane
Author :
Range, Martin ; Werner, Friedrich ; Ziegler, Marcus
Author_Institution :
Univ. Kassel, Kassel, Germany
Abstract :
The paper deals with the fundamental research for the design of an electric drive system for a sailplane in cooperation with the oldest and one of the largest sailplane manufactures Alexander Schleicher1. The realizability of this purpose is checked by a system perspective of the electric drive system. Different approaches are considered, e.g. a system with a gear, a downsized motor or an air drag optimized sustainer system to reduce the sinking due to the sustainer system.
Keywords :
aircraft; aircraft manufacture; electric vehicles; gears; motor drives; air drag optimized sustainer system; downsized motor; electric drive system; gear; sailplane; Batteries; Combustion; Discharges (electric); Engines; Equations; Gears; Propellers; Aerospace; Electric vehicle; Electrical drive; Energy efficiency; System integration;
Conference_Titel :
Power Electronics and Applications (EPE), 2013 15th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lille
DOI :
10.1109/EPE.2013.6631957
