Innovations in Electric Motor Drives: Exploring the Future of High-Performance, Energy Efficiency and Reliability
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "F3: Power Electronics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 May 2026) | Viewed by 2989
Special Issue Editor
Interests: electric machine design; power electronics; motor drives; diagnostics; machine learning
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Dear Colleagues,
As industries worldwide accelerate toward electrification and sustainable technologies, advanced electric machine topologies and motor drives have remained as the core enabling technologies driving the advancements in new applications. Innovations in topologies including superconducting machines; materials and components, including the additive manufacturing of components, intelligent control techniques, and modulation strategies; motor-drive integration; and the application of machine learning and AI techniques in motor drives have seen significant progress over the past few decades. These innovations are redefining the benchmarks for energy efficiency, high performance, and reliability across applications in electrified transportation, industrial automation, and renewable energy systems.
This Special Issue seeks to explore cutting-edge innovations and emerging trends that are shaping the future of electric machines and motor drives. The Guest Editor is inviting research scientists/engineers and industry experts to contribute original work that addresses both fundamental challenges in the design and control of electric motor drives, as well as reliability and diagnostic issues related to their application. Submissions that explore novel topologies, novel materials and manufacturing methods, advanced control strategies, modeling techniques, diagnostics, and the reliability of high-specific-power electric machines are particularly encouraged, with the aim of highlighting practical challenges and setting new directions for future developments in this rapidly evolving field.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Design of high-specific-power electric machines, novel topologies, superconducting machines, high-speed machines, opportunities in additively manufactured machines, advancements in motor drive topologies, high-efficiency power converter design, modulation strategies, wide-bandgap semiconductor applications, hybrid switching topologies, integrated motor drive design and challenges, co-design of power electronics and electric machine, thermal management, and efficiency.
- Motor drive robust control strategies, adaptive algorithms, and artificial intelligence techniques in motor control.
- Multi-physics modeling and simulation techniques, including real-time, hardware-in-the-loop, and power-in-the-loop testing, as well as digital twin development.
- Reliability and fault tolerance, fault detection and diagnostics, health monitoring, lifetime prediction, remaining useful life estimation of machine and components such as windings and bearings, demagnetization mitigation techniques, and demagnetization risk assessment.
Dr. Emmanuel Agamloh
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- high-specific-power electric machines
- superconducting machines
- diagnostics and reliability
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