Design, Modeling, and Control of Rotating and Linear Electric Machines for Automotive Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The automotive industry is one of the main employers in the industrialized countries. Due to its bright image, car culture has spread over the entire world, and shaped not only the global economy but also the way of life of billions of people. The automotive market is nowadays a very competitive market with big actors in nearly all continents. These actors have to evolve and propose new solutions. The electric vehicle has been the main driver of this industry in recent years. Indeed, in order to address the problems of greenhouse gases and polluting emissions of the classical IC engine vehicles, governments all over the world are imposing new legislation which have pushed the automotive industry to develop more or fully electric vehicles.

A large variety of electric machines and actuator topologies have been and are still being developed for automotive applications, by both the academic and industrial communities. Hence, the main objective of this Special Issue is to gather the ideas of the research community worldwide into a common platform and to present the latest advances and developments in the design, modeling, and control of electric machines and actuators for automotive applications. Topics of interest of this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

• Development of new PM material for the automotive market;
• Electric traction/propulsion machines for electric and hybrid vehicles;
• In-wheel electric motors;
• Control of electrical drives in hybrid and electric vehicles;
• Electric generators in automotive applications;
• Integrated starter/alternators for automotive applications;
• Electric machines and actuators for improving the IC engine performances;
• Magnetic gears in automotive applications;
• Electric machines and actuators for drive by wire technologies;
• Electric machines and actuators for automotive comfort systems;
• Active electromagnetic suspensions;
• Production lines of electric drives for automotive applications;
• Diagnosis of electric machines and actuators in automotive applications.

Prof. Yacine Amara
Guest Editor

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