Electromagnetic Actuators

Dear Colleagues,

Electromagnetic actuators are key machine components extensively applied when accuracy and reliability are required. Robotics, transportation, space and aeronautics, microelectronics, medical instruments and manufacturing increasingly demand optimized and efficient electromagnetic actuators for their processes and applications. This increasing demand is even more stimulated by the recent decarbonization policies established mostly worldwide, which encourage the development of clean and highly effective electrically powered machines. Electromagnetic actuators can satisfy those sustainability requirements and, at the same time, offer high power/torque densities, accuracy, control and efficiency.

This Special Issue intends to disseminate recent advances in electromagnetic actuators design, optimization, manufacturing, test, operation and control, covering everything from macroscale large electromagnetic actuators to microscale electromagnetic systems.

This Special Issue includes contributions related (but not limited) to the following topics:

• Rotary electromagnetic actuators: DC and/or AC motors, stepper motors, geared electromagnetic motors and motor-reducers.
• Axial and radial flux motors.
• Linear electromagnetic actuators: solenoids, voice coils, DC and AC linear electric motors.
• MEMS (Micro-ElectroMechanical Systems), electromagnetic microactuators.
• Other type of electromagnetic actuators: relays, switches, magnetorquers, spherical actuators, magnetorheological actuators, direct drives, magnetically geared actuators, magnetomechanical systems, superconductivity-based actuators and electromagnets.

Dr. Efren Diez-Jimenez
Dr. Ignacio Valiente Blanco
Guest Editors

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