Beamed-Mobility Engineering: Wireless-Power Beaming to Aircrafts, Spacecrafts and Rockets

This book describes the technologies of wireless power beaming to the aerospace crafts, such as the drone, flying car, aircraft, spacecraft, and rocket. Using a highly directional electromagnetic wave beam, energy is remotely supplied to mobility that moves at high speed without waste, and it is efficiently converted into the driving force of mobility. This technology will be indispensable for the full electrification of mobility in the future.

This book specializes in aerospace mobility, where weight and other constraints are strict, and was written by researchers in different disciplines such as rocket engineering, plasma engineering, laser engineering, and communications and control engineering. Beamed-mobility forms a new area of integrated engineering. The new combination of optics and mechanical engineering creates a world where mobility is free to supply the energy needed for propulsion, wherever and wherever it goes. It is expected to become the core technology of mobility, energy, infrastructure, and services of the future society that extends to outer space. This book will serve as a good reference for graduate students, researchers, and professional engineers in the field of aerospace, electrical, and mechanical engineering.

Koichi Mori is a professor at Department of Aerospace Engineering of Osaka Prefecture University. He received his Dr. Degree in Advanced Energy, the university of Tokyo in 2004. His research field is advanced space propulsion.

Yasuhisa Oda is an associate professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Setsunan University. He received his Dr. Degree in Advanced Energy, the university of Tokyo in 2009. His research field is plasma heating system for fusion devices and application of millimeter wave plasma in aerospace technology.

Masayuki Takahashi received Ph.D. in Engineering from Tohoku University in 2015. He is currently an associate professor at Department of Aerospace Engineering, Tohoku University. His research area is beamed-energy propulsion, electric propulsion, and flow control.

Kohei Shimamura is an associate professor at Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Tokyo Metropolitan University. He received his Dr. Degree in Advanced Energy, the University of Tokyo. University of Tokyo in 2014. His studies include the wireless power transfer via millimeter-wave, sub-THz wave and its applications to the aircraft and rockets.