Advances in PM and Reluctance Synchronous Motor Drives

Dear Colleagues,

High performance electrification of motion in many home, commercial, and industrial application fields is growing more and more widespread.

Applications range from multifunctional and comfortable home appliances, to high efficiency wind generators, to propulsion and auxiliary systems for land, water and air sustainable mobility.

Together with the diversity of applications, new overall operation features and a variety of dynamic specifications are in demand, stimulating the study and the development of novel and increasingly performing drive technologies and control techniques.

This Special Issue aims to collect original research or review articles on different Advanced Control Techniques and Drive Technology and related issues for achieving high performance PM and Reluctance Synchronous Motor Drives, suited for meeting the demanding specifications of the emerging applications.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• advanced control (e.g., flux-weakening techniques, maximum-torque-per-Ampère, loss minimization, etc.)
• estimation, self-commissioning and adaptation (e.g., flux-maps)
• sensorless control
• model-based and model-less predictive current/torque control
• multi-phase motor drives
• high-speed motor drives
• high-frequency power converters
• high-performance drive electronics
• advanced motor design (e.g., self-sensing oriented, high efficiency, high speed, etc.)

Prof. Dr. Silverio Bolognani
Prof. Dr. Roberto Petrella
Guest Editors

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• IPM and Reluctance machines
• Sensorless, predictive control
• Advanced machine design
• Flux-weakening control
• Maximum-torque-per-Ampère, Loss minimization strategies
• Estimation, self-commissioning, and adaptation techniques
• Multi-phase drives
• High speed, high-frequency drives and power converters