Electro-Mechanical Actuators for the More Electric Aircraft

Introduction.- Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis Approaches.- Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety Analysis for Aircraft Applications.- Application of Condition Monitoring and Fault Detection Solutions to Aerospace Electro-Mechanical Actuators.- Concluding Remarks

Mirko Mazzoleni is an assistant professor of data analysis at the University of Bergamo, Italy. His research interests regards nonparametric system identification and fault diagnosis methods, and he is the author of several scientific papers on those fields. He actively contributed to European research projects on fault diagnosis methods for electromechanical actuators (FP7 CleanSky JTI HOLMES project and H2020 CleanSky2 JTI REPRISE project). He is co-founder of AISent srl, a start-up company that engineers artificial intelligence solutions in the fields of manufacturing, life science and social innovation.


Gianpietro Di Rito is an assistant professor of aerospace systems at the University of Pisa, Italy. His research interests are mainly focused on modelling/simulation, control, health-monitoring and testing of aircraft actuation systems, with particular reference to electromechanical actuators for primary flight surfaces. He is the author of several scientific papers on the aforementioned topics, and he has contributed to several research-and-development programmes on innovative actuation systems design (i.e. FP7 and Horizon 2020 CleanSky JTI, H2020 PARSIFAL project, and more).


Fabio Previdi is a full professor of control systems at the University of Bergamo, Italy. He is author of more than 130 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, spanning topics such as fault detection, system identification and control applications. He is the principal investigator of two European projects on the fault detection and monitoring of electromechanical actuators in aerospace: HOLMES and REPRISE. He is very active in technology transfer to industrial and manufacturing companies. He is co-founder of e-Novia, the startup factory, a high-growth company active in creating new high-tech startup companies in cooperation with universities and research centers.