Electrical Machines for Automotive Applications: Dedicated Design Methods and Their Results, Power Electronics and Control II

Dear Colleagues,

Electrical machine use is increasingly prevalent in the automotive industry. Their applications mainly include wound synchronous, permanent magnet synchronous, wound-rotor asynchronous, and switched/synchronous reluctance machines, which have both axial and radial flux magnetic circuit configurations.

Depending on the application, machines operate at one or a few predefined operating points. Of special concern is their utilization as a propulsion mechanism, for which the machine is usually driven by the power converter and must operate efficiently and reliably over the entire torque/speed range. These issues necessitate research providing the desired drive characteristics.

This Special Issue intends to expand the existing knowledge base of this field. Topics of interest for this issue include, but are not limited to, theoretical and practical studies involving design and optimization methods, measurements and fault diagnostics, the development of dedicated power electronics, and implementation of their control. 

We welcome the submission of papers concerned with the above mentioned subjects with the aim of fostering the advancement of electrical machine technology for automotive applications. We would also like to thank the readers and authors supporting this Special Issue in advance.

Prof. Dr. Mariusz Jagiela
Dr. Janusz Kołodziej
Guest Editors

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