Fault Diagnosis for Electrical Machines, Power Electronics, and Drives, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2026 | Viewed by 67
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Interests: fault diagnosis; fault protection; electrical machines; power electronics
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Interests: electrical engineering; switching arcs; electric arc simulation; fault current limiting
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Interests: digital signal processing; power quality; harmonics; nonlinear models; measurement systems; electrical measurements; instrument transformers
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Electrical machines are key elements in power systems since they allow the transformation of electric power into useful mechanical action, and vice versa. Therefore, a proper and timely fault detection is required to reduce the outage time of these devices.
With the increasing demand for smart processes and in the search of sustainability, more efficient power systems are required. Nowadays, electrical machines are often connected to power electronics, thus creating electrical drives. The pulsed voltage waves provided from power electronics produce a faster aging of the insulation materials of the electrical machines, increasing the fault probability, not only of electrical faults but also of mechanical and magnetic faults. Furthermore, additional faults may occur in the power electronics devices.
With the implementation of this type of technology, most of the actual protections produce unwanted tripping because of high-frequency ripple due to the converter, leakage currents, non-sinusoidal waveforms, or variable operation frequency, among others. In this field, new diagnostic techniques must be developed in order to overcome such problems.
This Special Issue is focused on research for new and efficient trends in fault diagnosis for electrical machines, power electronics or its ensemble, and electrical drives. The Special Issue is focused on, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Fault diagnosis of electrical machines;
- Diagnosis of special electrical machines (linear, axial flux machines or other non-standard machines);
- Fault diagnosis of power electronics;
- Fault diagnosis in power applications involving power electronics (batteries, supercapacitors, …);
- New power converter topologies (i.e., modular multilevel converters, partial power converters, exciter and rotor-placed power electronics);
- Fault diagnosis of electric drives;
- Fault diagnosis of electric transportation systems (aircrafts, ships or electric locomotives, among others);
- New fault detection, classification and fault location methods;
- Industrial and laboratory experiments, studies on fault parameter behavior, and/or feature extraction for fault diagnosis;
- Smart diagnosis methods (data-driven techniques, cloud computing, digital twin diagnosis, etc.);
- The use of AI in fault diagnosis, fault analysis, condition monitoring, or prognosis for electrical machines, power electronics, and drives;
- Industrial experiences in the application of the above techniques, e.g., case studies or benchmarking exercises;
- Literature reviews involving the previous scopes.
Dr. Jose M. Guerrero
Dr. Araitz Iturregi Aio
Dr. Sergio Toscani
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fault diagnosis
- electrical machines
- power converters
- power electronics
- fault detection
- fault location
- fault classification
- electric drives
- power converters
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