Objectives and scope

The R3ASC‘25 conference will address the latest developments in aerospace actuation since 2023, when more than a hundred twenty worldwide industrialists, specialists and scientists attended the ninth R3ASC conference.

   The major changes that were identified two years ago have been confirmed in the last months: more environment-friendly solutions expected for conventional and new air mobilities, cheaper and faster access to space, wider resort to internet of things, aviation bashing, etc. Beside the restructuration of historical companies into large industrial groups, new comers and new countries have entered the aviation market, including for actuation systems and components. They bring new ideas that are less influenced by the historical state of the art, but that still need to be matured and demonstrated in real operation.

Aerospace actuation has to adapt to the today's context. The production rate of commercial aircraft, still suffers from the limitations of the supply chain induced by the pandemic, while the backlog is not so bad. The political situation favors budget allocation to military applications. The institutional funding for research and development is mainly targeted to aircraft propulsion applications (electric or hydrogen). Therefore, less attention is paid to actuation, considering that it is time for industry to take over its maturation from TRL 6 to 9. However, aerospace actuation is still progressing for both technologies, hydraulic or electric, thanks to the fantastic evolution of needs, tools and processes.

In order to offer the delegates the widest view on recent advances in actuation systems and components, authors are invited to submit scientific and technical communications dealing with:
   - application to any type of aircraft, with special interest to new air mobilities
   - energy saving, eco design and operation, deconstruction
   - flight controls including thrust vector control, landing gears, engines, and utilities
   - power generation and distribution, power management
   - hydraulically/electrically/hybrid powered actuation: PbW, HSA, EHA, EMA,…
   - components: direct drive valves, magnetic gears, SiC electronics, etc.
   - signal transmission and control: FbW, FbL, FblW, FbWL, POD, PLC
   - new architectures for signal or power transmission and transformation
   - mutualization, modularization, standardization
   - simulation, virtual prototyping, virtual test-benches
   - optimization and design exploration, digital twin, artificial intelligence
   - reliability, safety, health and usage monitoring, internet of things
   - ground and flight tests, verification and validation
   - integration, maintenance, service withdrawal
   - operation an certification 

Pr Jean-Charles Maré, initiator and chair of R3ASC