The Research Progress on Electrical Machine Technologies and Their Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Nowadays, rotating electrical machines are widely used, from applications in people’s daily life, such as in domestic appliances, electrical vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, high-speed railways, etc., to industry applications, such as in wind power generators, robots, mining machines and so on. The need to reduce energy consumption and mitigate pollution have driven the topology development of electrical machines with the design of new materials and manufacturing processes able to achieve higher torque density, power density, reliability and efficiency. Moreover, new electrical machine topologies further advance the research on high-power-density machine drives, fault tolerance control strategies, low vibration and noise control methods and intelligence systems.

This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances in the theory, design, modelling, application and control of electrical machines and systems. Both high-quality original research and review articles are welcome. 

Submission topics include, but are not limited to:

• Novel topologies of permanent-magnet machines;
• New developments in permanent-magnet machines;
• Switched reluctance machines;
• Synchronous reluctance machines;
• Fault tolerance electrical machines;
• Optimal design methodologies;
• Advanced modelling approaches;
• Noise and vibration prediction in electrical machines;
• Novel power electronics for the electrical machines;
• Reliability and safety of electrical machine systems;
• Advanced control strategy for energy management.

Prof. Dr. Xu Liu
Dr. Shanhu Li
Dr. Qingguo Sun
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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