Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Special Issue

Advanced Design and Control Techniques for Robust Permanent Magnet Motors for Traction and Propulsion

  • Submission Deadline: Dec. 31, 2022
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Zaixin Song
About This Special Issue
In the transportation sector, the involvement of electrical energy helps reduce carbon emission, mitigate global warming, and most importantly conform to global carbon peaking and neutrality objectives. Therefore, plenty of technologies related to electrical and electronic engineering are under development, one of which is the electrification of transportation powertrain, an emerging popular research topic recently. Basically, as the core component in electrified traction and propulsion systems, permanent magnet motors gradually show their great potential to be the future candidate of traction motors and propulsion motors. The design, analysis, optimization processes together with control strategies of permanent magnet motors are crucial during the preliminary virtual prototyping task. Vehicle traction and aircraft propulsion scenarios not only require the high performance for electric motors but also focus on the robustness and reliability of the motor structure and operation. To this end, much research is devoted to advanced design and control techniques to pursue a comprehensive consideration and coordination of multifaceted motor performance indicators, from the aspects of electromagnetic, electronics, mechanical, cooling, dynamics, among others. Due to the both high performance and salient weakness of permanent magnet materials, robust design and control for permanent magnet motors directly link to the transport safety.
All in all, this Special Issue aims at discovering these advanced techniques and accepts reviews and technical studies on the design, analysis, and optimization of permanent magnet motors. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
  1. 1) Novel permanent magnet motor topologies with high robustness;
  2. 2) Analytical modeling on magnetic field prediction of permanent magnet motors;
  3. 3) Multi-objective optimization for performance improvement of permanent magnet motors;
  4. 4) Structural and cooling design of permanent magnet motor and drive system;
  5. 5) Fault-tolerant permanent magnet motor design and control;
  6. 6) Emerging motor drive topologies with robustness or reliability concerns;
  7. 7) Robust control strategies based on advanced and novel motor drives.
  8. Keywords:

    1. Permanent Magnet Motor
    2. Electric Vehicle Traction
    3. Electric Aircraft Propulsion
    4. Design Optimization Technique
    5. Motor Drive
    6. Robust Design and Control
Lead Guest Editor
  • Zaixin Song

    School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Guest Editors
  • Shuangxia Niu

    Department of Electrical Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  • Chunhua Liu

    School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  • Christopher H. T. Lee

    School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore