Machines

AI-Driven Reliability Analysis and Predictive Maintenance

edited by

Phuc Do

and Cristiano Cavalcante

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 14862 | Submission Open

Keywords: predictive maintenance; data-driven prognosis; AI-driven reliability analysis; machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Machines Testing and Maintenance)

Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis

edited by

Yancai Xiao

, Tianyang Wang and Shaodan Zhi

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 11059 | Submission Open

Keywords: condition monitoring; fault diagnosis; predictive maintenance; health management; failure simulation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Machines Testing and Maintenance)

Power Converters: Topology, Control, Reliability, and Applications

edited by Tamer Kamel

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9434 | Submission Open

Keywords: power converters topologies; power converters for renewable energy sources; fault diagnosis of power converters and their reliability; grid-tided power electronics; smart grid implementation; distributed power generation; innovative control for power converters; AI applications in power systems; transportation electrification

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical Machines and Drives)

New Trends in Reliability and Lifetime Improvement in Power-Electronic-Controlled Machines and Devices

edited by

Gian Carlo Montanari

and

Sukesh Babu Myneni

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7937 | Submission Open

Keywords: electric machines; machine insulation; partial discharges; power electronics; lifetime improvement; reliability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical Machines and Drives)

Advanced Research and Development in Fluid Machinery: Design, Optimization, and Applications

edited by Yandong Gu,

Christopher Stephen

,

Leilei Ji

and Guoyi Peng

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 11 articles | Viewed by 7731 | Submission Open

Keywords: fluid machinery; pump; bearing– rotor systems; multiphase flow; water turbine performance; Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); fluid-structure interaction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Machine Design and Theory)

Digital Twins in Smart Manufacturing

edited by Qinglin Qi, Lin Wang, Matteo De Marchi and

Christophe Danjou

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5166 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Advanced Manufacturing)

Smart Electrified Energy–Motion Systems: Design, Control, and Intelligence from Machines and Vehicles to the Grid

edited by Chao Gong

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3975 | Submission Open

Keywords: electrified energy– motion systems; design; control; system-level; intelligent methodologies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical Machines and Drives)

Recent Analysis and Research in the Field of Vehicle Traffic Safety, 2nd Edition

edited by

Konrad Jan Waluś

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3245 | Submission Open

Keywords: automotive; autonomous vehicles; vehicle dynamics; mobile measurement; active deceleration device; intelligent speed assist; tire/road contact; TPMS; road condition; driving behavior

(This special issue belongs to the Section Vehicle Engineering)

Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence Technology for High-End Equipment Fault Diagnosis (2nd Edition)

edited by Bingyan Chen, Yao Cheng and

Fan Zhang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3151 | Submission Open

Keywords: signal processing; artificial intelligence; machine learning; machine condition monitoring; machine fault diagnosis; high-end equipment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Machines Testing and Maintenance)

Advanced Estimation, Control, and Optimization Techniques for Synchronous Machines in Next-Generation Electrified Systems

edited by Peter Azer and Ahmed Abdelrahman

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2827 | Submission Open

Keywords: synchronous motors; motor control; power electronics; electric machines; synchronous machines; PMSM

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical Machines and Drives)

Advanced Machine Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis

edited by Gómez María Jesús

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2795 | Submission Open

Keywords: condition monitoring; fault diagnosis; predictive maintenance; machine learning; signal processing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Machines Testing and Maintenance)

Design and Control of Surgical Robots

edited by Yongzhuo Gao

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2786 | Submission Open

Keywords: continuum robots; concentric tube robots; micro-nano surgical robots; novel instrument design; surgical robot modeling and control; image-guided robot control; data-driven control method; haptic/shape sensing method; perception methods for biological tissue

(This special issue belongs to the Section Machine Design and Theory)

Dynamic Analysis and Condition Monitoring of High-Speed Trains

edited by

Yaoxiang Yu

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2786 | Submission Open

Keywords: dynamics modelling; intelligent fault diagnosis; vibration analysis; condition monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Vehicle Engineering)

Transforming Classic Machining into Smart Manufacturing

edited by

Jonghyun Kim

and

Haewoon Choi

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2691 | Submission Open

Keywords: machining; automation; human– machine interaction; smart factory; smart and hybrid manufacturing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Advanced Manufacturing)

Innovations and Challenges in Additive Manufacturing Technologies

edited by Khalil Khanafer and

Ibrahim Deiab

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2535 | Submission Open

Keywords: additive manufacturing; simulation and modeling; materials characterization; additive manufacturing process

(This special issue belongs to the Section Advanced Manufacturing)

Digital Twin-Driven Machine Performance and Reliability: Replication, Prediction and Front Running Simulation

edited by

Michael Grieves

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1875 | Submission Open

Keywords: factory health prediction; digital twin-enabled machine; industrial reliability management; health monitoring; reliability-driven digital Twins

(This special issue belongs to the Section Machines Testing and Maintenance)

Towards Embodied Intelligence: Novel Kinematic Structures and AI-Guided Mechanism Design

edited by

Yang Liu

and Zhiyuan Zhao

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1649 | Submission Open

Keywords: robotics; embodied intelligence; kinematic design; mechanism synthesis; AI-guided optimization; robot dynamics; configuration innovation; computational design; morphology & control co-design

(This special issue belongs to the Section Machine Design and Theory)

Design and Control of Compliant, Energy-Efficient Mechatronic and Robotic Systems

edited by

Luigi Tagliavini

and

Luca Bruzzone

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1538 | Submission Open

Keywords: compliant robots; robots design; robots control; energy-efficient systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Robotics, Mechatronics and Intelligent Machines)

Digital Twins and Intelligent Systems for Condition-Based Industrial Maintenance

edited by

Nasser Amaitik

,

Yuchun Xu

,

Jihong Yan

, Muftooh Siddiqi and

Chao Liu

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1243 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital twins; condition-based maintenance (CBM); predictive maintenance; machine learning and AI in maintenance; fault detection and diagnostics; remaining useful life (RUL) estimation; life cycle cost modelling; sustainable maintenance strategies; intelligent decision support; prognostics and health management (PHM); data-driven maintenance systems; maintenance planning optimisation; Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT); smart manufacturing; cyber– physical systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Machines Testing and Maintenance)

Emerging Technologies in Vibration Control: Advances in Suppression and Isolation

edited by Diego Ledezma-Ramirez, Pablo Ernesto Tapia-González and

César M. A. Vasques

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1118 | Submission Open

Keywords: vibration suppression; vibration isolation; nonlinear vibration control; active and passive control systems; metamaterials and metastructures; smart materials; adaptive structures

(This special issue belongs to the Section Machine Design and Theory)

Advanced Design, Control, and Optimization for Parallel Manipulators

edited by

Ameer Hamza Khan

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 916 | Submission Open

Keywords: novel architectures and topologies for parallel manipulators; kinematic and dynamic modeling techniques; trajectory planning and motion optimization; AI-augmented model predictive control; fault diagnosis and robust control

(This special issue belongs to the Section Machine Design and Theory)

Advanced Control Techniques for Power Electronics in Modern Energy Systems

edited by Moria Sassonker Elkayam and

Dmitri Vinnikov

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 884 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-resonant and adaptive controllers; predictive and nonlinear control strategies; advanced feed-forward and multi-loop control techniques; grid-forming and grid-following inverter control; scalability and thermal management considerations; machine learning and AI-based controllers; control techniques for hybrid energy storage and power management; experimental and comparative studies of advanced controllers; control strategies for Power-to-X (P2X) systems; wireless power transfer (WPT) control techniques

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electromechanical Energy Conversion Systems)

Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Vehicle Systems: Modeling, Control Optimization and Fault Diagnosis

edited by

Yougang Sun

,

Hongliang Pan

, Haiyan Qiang and Daofang Chang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 877 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; vehicle dynamics modeling; intelligent control; fault diagnosis; reinforcement learning; predictive maintenance; rail transit systems; digital twin; intelligent vehicles; system optimization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Vehicle Engineering)

New Advances in Science of Mechanisms and Machines

edited by

Mircea Neagoe

,

Ioan Doroftei

and

Erwin Lovasz

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 614 | Submission Open

Keywords: mechanisms; mechanical transmissions; machines; robots; design; modeling; simulation; experimental testing; control; optimization; kinematics; dynamics; applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Machine Design and Theory)

Human-Centred Manufacturing Towards Industry 5.0

edited by

Dimitris Mourtzis

and

Dimitris F. Papadopoulos

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 469 | Submission Open

Keywords: Industry 5.0; human-centricity; resilience; sustainability; digital manufacturing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Advanced Manufacturing)

Industry 5.0: Key Enabling Technologies, Requirements, Current Applications and Future Directions

edited by

Ludovica Maria Oliveri

,

Federico Briatore

and

Simone Arena

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 398 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced cobots; IoT; edge/fog/cloud computing; digital twins; CPS; AI; Industry 5.0; sustainability; resilience; human-centricity; cognitive workload; ergonomics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Industrial Systems)

Reinforcement Learning in Dynamic Control and Robotic Autonomy

edited by Jing Wang and Puze Liu

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 379 | Submission Open

Keywords: reinforcement learning; robotic autonomy; motion planning; sensor fusion; dynamic control; stability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Automation and Control Systems)

Advanced Manufacturing Technologies for Improving Fatigue Behavior of Metal Components

edited by

Galya Velikova Duncheva

and

Jordan Todorov Maximov

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 348 | Submission Open

Keywords: fatigue behavior; fatigue life enhancement; material structure modification; surface modification; cold working; hybrid; combined technologies; sustainable technologies; numerical simulations

(This special issue belongs to the Section Advanced Manufacturing)

Flow Control and Aerodynamic Performance of Axial Flow Turbine

edited by Dhuree Seth and

Sam Salehian

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 338 | Submission Open

Keywords: axial flow turbine; flow control; aerodynamic performance; secondary flows; tip leakage; boundary layer separation; wake mixing; passive control techniques; active flow control; turbine efficiency

(This special issue belongs to the Section Machine Design and Theory)

Fault Diagnosis, Detection and Reliability Enhancement in Aerospace Engineering

edited by Sajad Saraygord Afshari and

Enayatollahi Mina

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 326 | Submission Open

Keywords: aerospace systems reliability; fault detection and diagnosis; fault-tolerant systems; health monitoring and prognostics; artificial intelligence and machine learning; cyber-physical systems; autonomous and space systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Machines Testing and Maintenance)

Multiscale Fatigue Mechanisms and Life Prediction in Additive Manufactured Materials

edited by Wenyou Zhang,

Yuchao Bai

and Ming Li

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 313 | Submission Open

Keywords: additive manufacturing; fatigue behaviour; fatigue life estimation; defect control; residual stress; microstructure; surface roughness; process– structure– property relationships; fatigue modelling and simulation; structural integrity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Advanced Manufacturing)

Innovations in Digital Twin Technologies for Industry 5.0

edited by

Andrés Redchuk

and

Federico Walas Mateo

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 271 | Submission Open

Keywords: cognitive digital twin; real-time simulation; data-driven process optimization; Industry 5.0; smart manufacturing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Advanced Manufacturing)

Advanced Operation and Expansion Planning of Future Electric Power Systems

edited by Khairy Sayed

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 243 | Submission Open

Keywords: power system planning and operation; renewable energy integration; AI and optimization in energy systems; smart grids and digital twins

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electromechanical Energy Conversion Systems)

Intelligent Operation and Control for Sustainable Power and Energy Systems

edited by

Mahmoud Elsadd

,

Mohamed Eladawy

and Ayman Samy Abdel-Khalik

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 223 | Submission Open

Keywords: electromechanical energy conversion systems; predictive maintenance of electrical machines; fault detection and diagnosis; condition monitoring; multiphysics modeling; renewable energy systems; automation and intelligent control; self-healing control; cybersecurity of sustainable power and energy systems; mechatronics and intelligent machines

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electromechanical Energy Conversion Systems)

Laser-Driven Manufacturing: Cutting, Welding, and Surface Modification Technologies

edited by

Seyedeh Fatemeh Nabavi

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 202 | Submission Open

Keywords: laser-driven manufacturing; laser cutting; laser welding; surface modification technologies; machine learning; micro- and nanomanufacturing; sustainable manufacturing; sustainable materials; energy optimization; advanced manufacturing; industrial internet of things (IIoT); cyber– physical systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Advanced Manufacturing)

Innovations in Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine Design, Control, Reliability and Redundancy

edited by

Kyu-Yun Hwang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 170 | Submission Open

Keywords: permanent magnet synchronous machine; electrical machine design; fault-tolerant topology; redundant winding; multi-phase machine; demagnetization analysis; thermal modeling; electromagnetic optimization; motor drive control; electric vehicle propulsion

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical Machines and Drives)

Neural Networks Applied in Manufacturing and Design

edited by Ignacio Martin-Diaz

submission deadline 1 Oct 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9200 | Submission Open

Keywords: predictive maintenance; quality control; process optimization; defect detection; machine design

(This special issue belongs to the Section Machines Testing and Maintenance)

Advances in Analysis, Control and Design of Permanent Magnet Machines

edited by

Zlatko Hanić

submission deadline 1 Oct 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1598 | Submission Open

Keywords: permanent magnet machines; control; design; optimization; multiphysics; high-speed applications; NVH; sustainable design

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical Machines and Drives)

Nonlinear Control in Human-Robot Collaboration in Manufacturing

edited by Bin Wei

submission deadline 1 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 141 | Submission Open

Keywords: human– robot collaboration; advanced manufacturing; nonlinear control; nonlinear dynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Automation and Control Systems)

Health Condition Monitoring, Intelligent Operation and Maintenance of Wind Turbines

edited by Ronghua Zhu, Cailiang Zhang,

Chaoge Wang

and Zepeng Liu

submission deadline 15 Oct 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5109 | Submission Open

Keywords: wind turbines; digital twin; fault diagnosis; predictive maintenance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Turbomachinery)

Laser Surface Treatment in Smart Manufacturing Systems

edited by

AMM Nazmul Ahsan

and

Farid Ahmed

submission deadline 30 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 77 | Submission Open

Keywords: laser surface treatment; laser surface texturing; smart manufacturing; Industry 4.0; AI/machine learning; process monitoring and control; digital twin; advanced manufacturing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Advanced Manufacturing)

Modelling, Design and Optimization of Wind Turbines

edited by

Francesco Papi

and

Mircea Neagoe

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 15043 | Submission Open

Keywords: wind; renewable; energy transition; experiment; simulation; optimization; design; load; co-design; wake; wind farm

(This special issue belongs to the Section Turbomachinery)

The New Digital Era in Industrial Robotics, Mechatronics and Factory Automation

edited by

Roman Ružarovský

,

Tibor Horak

and

Ivan Virgala

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9355 | Submission Open

Keywords: industrial robotics; factory automation; industrial mechatronics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Robotics, Mechatronics and Intelligent Machines)

AI-Driven Intelligent Maintenance and Health Management for Complex Industrial Systems

edited by Dandan Peng,

Xiaoxi Hu

, Jipu Li and Chuanjiang Li

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7552 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; diagnostics and prognostics; digital twin; explainable AI; large foundation models

(This special issue belongs to the Section Machines Testing and Maintenance)

Recent Progress in Electrical Machines and Motor Drives

edited by Angel Gonzalez-Prieto and

Ignacio Gonzalez Prieto

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6757 | Submission Open

Keywords: multiphase machines; control of multiphase electric drives; electric vehicles; wind energy conversion systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical Machines and Drives)

Intelligent Propulsion Systems and Energy Control

edited by

Hao Shi

,

Mohammad Alnajideen

, Dongsheng Dong and Fuxing Wei

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2185 | Submission Open

Keywords: engine knock analysis; marine engine innovations; combustion optimization; energy control systems; flying car technologies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electromechanical Energy Conversion Systems)

Mechanical Design of Parallel Manipulators

edited by

Muhammad Faizan Shah

and

Zareena Kausar

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2134 | Submission Open

Keywords: parallel manipulators; mechanical design; kinematic synthesis; structural optimization; robotic mechanisms; singularity analysis; high-precision robotics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Robotics, Mechatronics and Intelligent Machines)

Intelligent Path Planning for Robotic Systems: Modeling, Optimization and Real-Time Decision-Making

edited by

Jingrui Zhang

, Yu Xie and

Po Li

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2017 | Submission Open

Keywords: kinodynamic planning; anytime algorithms; model predictive control; chance-constrained optimization; mul-ti-objective optimization; subgoal replanning; latency-aware scheduling; uncertainty-aware mapping; human– robot spatial cognition; neuromorphic computing for planning; physics-informed neural planners; federated learn-ing for multi-robot systems; bio-inspired navigation; heuristic/meta-heuristic path planning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Robotics, Mechatronics and Intelligent Machines)

Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Fault Diagnosis, Remaining Useful Life Prediction and Prognosis of Transportation Equipment

edited by

,

,

and

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1244 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; fault diagnosis; remaining useful life prediction and prognosis; transportation equipment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Vehicle Engineering)

Trustworthy and Intelligent Systems for Machine Health Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance

edited by

Tongtong Yan

,

Yaoxiang Yu

and Yankai Wang

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1194 | Submission Open

Keywords: dynamics modelling and simulation; machine health monitoring; fault diagnosis in deep learning; performance degradation assessment; big model

(This special issue belongs to the Section Machines Testing and Maintenance)

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