New Advancements in Fault-Tolerant Motor Drives: Machine Topology, Fault Diagnosis and Data Analytics

Dear Colleagues,

We are very excited to advertise this Special Issue and to invite your contribution to it.

Fault-tolerant motor drives are of critical importance for many applications, such as more electric aircraft, electric vehicles, high-speed trains, electric ships, and wind turbines. These industries require differing levels of fault detection and fault-tolerant operation. Motor drives should be equipped with some fault detection measures and be capable of providing uninterrupted operation during fault conditions (fault ride through). As electrical motor drives are becoming a key innovative technology to replace conventional mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic driven systems for safety-critical applications, a complete fault-tolerant motor drive system should consider fault tolerance at all levels of motor drives, including machine topology, power converters, control strategies, sensing and measurement, data acquisition and analytics, component aging models, and fault management strategies.

Over the last few years, extensive advanced fault-tolerant machine drives have been developed, such as multiple-phase machines, WBG-based converters, system integration, and fault ride through control strategies. This Special Issue aims to capture the current state-of-the-art techniques around sensors, hardware and algorithms, novel machine designs, fault mechanism analysis, multiphysics modeling, fault diagnosis, fault management, control algorithms, artificial intelligence, and post-fault control strategies. We particularly welcome the utilization of new materials (conductors, insulators, heat sinks, etc.), new models and designs, sensing techniques, and data analytical algorithms, as well as integrated design optimization and practical demonstrations in industrial applications.

Prof. Wen-Ping Cao
Prof. Lassi Aarniovuori
Dr. Bo Wang
Dr. Xing Qi
Guest Editors

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• fault tolerance
• machine topologies
• digital twins
• fault mechanisms
• aging models
• multiphysics modelling
• fault and failure
• fault ride through
• post-fault control
• data mining
• sensors and sensing technologies