Design and Integrated Verification of Hybrid-Electric Power System for Regional Aircraft

The design of Hybrid-Electric Regional (HER) aircraft represents a great challenge due to the systems’ complexity and their level of integration and results in a great expense of resources. To overcome these issues, the Open Digital Environment for Hybrid-Electric Regional Architecture (ODE4HERA) project is developing an Open Digital Platform (ODP) to accelerate the design process. The platform is validated using a pilot case which focuses on powertrain systems and covers the entire development process, from requirements definition to Virtual Integrated Verification and Validation (IV&V). At first, the design is performed using state-of-the-art tools; then it is repeated using preliminary ODP modules to evaluate the achieved benefits.