Abstract: Systems and methods of aircraft thrust management are provided. For example, a propulsion system for an aircraft comprises a fuel cell assembly comprising a fuel cell, a turbomachine, and a controller comprising memory and one or more processors. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the propulsion system to perform operations including receiving data indicative of a propulsion system thrust discrepancy and modifying an output of the fuel cell in response to receiving data indicative of the propulsion system thrust discrepancy. Modifying the fuel cell output may include modifying output products, an electrical power output, or both of the fuel cell to balance the thrust provided by the propulsion system.

Abstract: A safety management system for an aircraft, or a propulsion system thereof including a fuel cell assembly and a combustion engine, may include various sensors and controllers configured to execute a safety action. At least one sensor is configured to detect at least one operating parameter of the propulsion system, and a controller is configured to determine that the at least one operating parameter has achieved a safety threshold and to execute a safety action when the at least one operating parameter has achieved the safety threshold. The safety action is configured to control operation of the fuel cell assembly and to control operation of the combustion engine.

Abstract: A propulsion system including: a fuel cell assembly comprising a fuel cell, the fuel cell defining an outlet positioned to remove output products from the fuel cell and a fuel cell assembly operating condition; a combustion section that includes a combustor configured to receive a flow of aviation fuel from the aircraft fuel supply and further configured to receive the output products from the fuel cell; and a controller comprising memory and one or more processors, the memory storing instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the propulsion system to perform operations including: determining data indicative of at least one of an enthalpy or a composition of the output products from the fuel cell; and modifying the flow of aviation fuel from the aircraft fuel supply to the combustor based on the at least one of the enthalpy or the composition of the output products.

Abstract: Systems and methods of aircraft thrust management are provided. For example, a propulsion system for an aircraft comprises a fuel cell assembly comprising a fuel cell, a turbomachine, and a controller comprising memory and one or more processors. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the propulsion system to perform operations including receiving data indicative of a propulsion system thrust discrepancy and modifying an output of the fuel cell in response to receiving data indicative of the propulsion system thrust discrepancy. Modifying the fuel cell output may include modifying output products, an electrical power output, or both of the fuel cell to balance the thrust provided by the propulsion system.

Abstract: A method of starting a gas turbine engine includes determining an abnormal shutdown condition during operation of the gas turbine engine and determining a first set of lightoff parameters for the gas turbine engine. The method also includes restarting the gas turbine engine using the first set of lightoff parameters. The method further includes iteratively determining subsequent first sets of lightoff parameters and restarting the gas turbine engine using a respective subsequent first set of the determined subsequent first sets of lightoff parameters until the gas turbine maintains a first set of operational parameters, where the first set of operational parameters is representative of a robust lightoff of the gas turbine engine.

Abstract: A method for controlling the operation of a gas turbine includes monitoring an operating parameter of the gas turbine engine. The method also includes determining a first position demand for controlling an operation of a first actuator based on the monitored operating parameter. In addition, the method includes controlling the operation of the first actuator based on the first position demand to adjust the angular position of at least one airfoil included within a first array of airfoils. The method further includes determining a second position demand for controlling the operation of a second actuator based on the first position demand. In addition, the method also includes controlling the operation of the second actuator based on the second position demand to adjust the angular position of at least one airfoil included within a second array of airfoils.

Abstract: A method for controlling the operation of a gas turbine includes monitoring an operating parameter of the gas turbine engine. The method also includes determining a first position demand for controlling an operation of a first actuator based on the monitored operating parameter. In addition, the method includes controlling the operation of the first actuator based on the first position demand to adjust the angular position of at least one airfoil included within a first array of airfoils. The method further includes determining a second position demand for controlling the operation of a second actuator based on the first position demand. In addition, the method also includes controlling the operation of the second actuator based on the second position demand to adjust the angular position of at least one airfoil included within a second array of airfoils.

Abstract: A method of starting a gas turbine engine includes determining an abnormal shutdown condition during operation of the gas turbine engine and determining a first set of lightoff parameters for the gas turbine engine. The method also includes restarting the gas turbine engine using the first set of lightoff parameters. The method further includes iteratively determining subsequent first sets of lightoff parameters and restarting the gas turbine engine using a respective subsequent first set of the determined subsequent first sets of lightoff parameters until the gas turbine maintains a first set of operational parameters, where the first set of operational parameters is representative of a robust lightoff of the gas turbine engine.

Abstract: The method provides object recognition procedure and a neural network by using the discrete-cosine transform (DCT) (4) and histogram adaptive quantization (5). The method employs the DCT transform with the added advantage of having a computationally-efficient and data-independent matrix as an alternative to the Karhunen-Loeve transform or principal component analysis which requires data-independent eigenvectors as a priori information. Since the set of learning samples (1) may be small, we employ a mixture model of prior distributions for accurate estimation of local distribution of feature patterns obtained from several two dimensional images. The model selection method based on the mixture classes is presented to optimize the mixture number and local metric parameters. This method also provides image synthesis to generate a set of image databases to be used for training a neural network.

Abstract: A ferroelectric memory device having a memory cell internally provided with first and second ferroelectric capacitors, with first and second memory cell transistors interposed between first and second bit lines (BL, /BL) and the data accumulation nodes (SN, /SN) of the first and second ferroelectric capacitors, respectively, and with a cell plate line (CP) connected to the cell plate of each of the first and second ferroelectric capacitors is controlled by the following procedures. After L data is written in the memory cell capacitor during the period between times t12 and t13, H data is written in the memory cell capacitor by control operation during the period between the time t13 and a time t14. At the time t14, the voltage on a word line (WL) is switched to L to turn OFF the first memory cell transistor, while the writing of H data in the first ferroelectric capacitor is continued by using residual charge.

Abstract: It is an object to present a reading method of a ferroelectric memory device capable of operating at low voltage more securely than in the prior art, and a ferroelectric memory device. To achieve the object, for example, as shown in FIG. 1, after applying a pulse from cell plate signal CP to cell plate electrodes, potentials of bit lines BL0 and /BL0 are respectively set to logic voltage H and L by a sense amplifier. That is, for the cell plate electrode, an electric field is once applied to the ferroelectric capacitor, and the signal application is controlled so as not to apply electric field afterwards, and the potentials of the bit lines are amplified by the sense amplifier.