Recent Advances in High-Performance Electrical Machine: Design, Optimization, Manufacturing and Drives

Dear Colleagues,

Today, electrical machines systems, as one of the core components for energy conversion and electricity consumption, have been widely employed in many sectors of industry, transportation, and domestic life. To achieve the goals of net-zero schemes and to address environmental issues, the rapid development of renewable energy generation, energy storage, electrified transportation, and environmentally friendly industries have significantly raised the requirements of high-performance electrical machines to unprecedented levels. These requirements include, but are not limited to, high torque/power density, high efficiency, low torque ripple, low cost, high reliability, high mechanical strength, good thermal management capability, and efficient integration with power electronic drive components.

To deal with the ever-increasing performance demands that have already become challenging for existing electrical machine techniques, researchers in both academia and industry are exploring innovative approaches across different disciplines. Within the potential fields, new topologies and design techniques, application of novel electromagnetic materials, and multiphysics-based design optimization methods for data-driven and artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted approaches can be investigated for cutting-edge breakthroughs in high-performance electrical machines. Moreover, the utilization of advanced manufacturing technologies and control methods can also inspire emerging developments from systematic integration prospects. Therefore, more efforts must be made in the area of high-performance electrical machines.

This Special Issue is dedicated to providing a platform for researchers to exchange the latest research and newest ideas in the area of design, optimization, manufacturing, and drives for high-performance electrical machines, further contributing to the ongoing progress in this dynamic field.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include but not limited to the following:

• Permanent magnet machines;
• Reluctance machines;
• Electrically excited synchronous machines;
• Doubly fed induction machines;
• Data-driven design optimization;
• AI-assisted design;
• Advanced manufacturing techniques for machines;
• Integration design of machines and power electronics;
• Machine control and drives.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Yang Xiao
Dr. Yiming Ma
Dr. Dawei Liang
Dr. Xi Chen
Guest Editors

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• electrical machines
• permanent magnet machines
• synchronous machine
• double-fed induction machines
• data-driven optimization
• artificial intelligence
• machine control
• electrical machine manufacturing