Design and Control of Electrical Machines and Drives

Dear Colleagues,

Climate changes and significant efforts to decrease greenhouse emissions in transport and in electric power generation demand the use of innovative electric machines with lower energy consumption and development of the enhanced control methods for their usage. Innovative design of electric machines should follow the next main targets: high energy efficiency during energy conversion, reliability of operation, controllability, simplicity, rugged construction, low production price, low maintenance cost and recyclability of used materials. Full utilization of electric drives features is possible only with simultaneous development of both electrical machines and control methods.

This Special Issue focuses on, but is not limited to, the following topics:

• Electromagnetic and thermal design methods for electric machines;
• Multi-objective optimization of electric machines and drives;
• Core loss analysis and advanced core loss calculation methods;
• Design of line-start permanent magnet and line-start permanent magnet-free machines;
• Nonlinear models of electric machines with concentrated parameters;
• Development of electric machines for electric propulsion;
• Dual-rotor PM machines for electrical variable transmission;
• Development of highly-efficient electric machines for general applications;
• Of-line and on-line methods for identification of electric machine parameters;
• Development of enhanced control methods for electric machines and drives (field oriented control, direct torque control, model predictive control, model-free predictive control);
• Advanced control system strategies for wind power generation systems.

Prof. Dr. Bojan Štumberger
Prof. Dr. Miralem Hadžiselimović
Prof. Dr. Sebastijan Seme
Guest Editors

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