Design Optimization and Comparative Study of a Novel Halbach Permanent Magnet Vernier Machine with Alternate Flux Bridge

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

First, I would like to say that, this paper presents an interesting research topic, and it has the potential to be a high quality one. Unfortunately, the quality of presentation is disappointing, and the current version should not have been submitted. Below are some examples.

1.  Page 3, line 79-81, caption of the figure does not comply with the figure.

2.  Page 7, Fig. 7-8, poor figure quality.

3. Page 9, line 195-201, a duplication of previous paragraph.

4. Page 10, line 210 and line 213, logic conflict.

5. Page 11, line 223-228, what's the logic connection with the main topic of this paper?

6. Page 11, line 246-247, the description does not comply with the information provided in the corresponding figure.

7. Page 12, line 251-252, difficult to understand.

Author Response

Dear reviewer,

  Thanks for your comments. The responses are in the attached document.

Bests,

ZIqi

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

This paper proposes a novel rotor PM arrangement structure, which can effectively utilize the low-order harmonics by using a group of flux bridges. In my opinion, this paper is well-organized, but there are still some questions to be answered:

1. It seems that the unbalanced magnetic force might be large since the pole pair number is odd, how to deal with this issue?

2. There is a typo in the caption of Fig. 6, please fix it.

3. Please provide the vibration ranges of the design parameters in the Genetic Algorithm.

Author Response

Dear reviewer,

  Thanks for your comments. The responses are in the attached document.

Bests,

ZIqi

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

No further requests.