Special issue on electric machines and systems: design, analysis, and control

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Masmoudi, A. (2012), "Special issue on electric machines and systems: design, analysis, and control", COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, Vol. 31 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/compel.2012.17431aaa.001

Special issue on electric machines and systems: design, analysis, and control

Article Type: Guest editorial From: COMPEL: The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Volume 31, Issue 1

This special issue of COMPEL (The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering) includes the extended and improved versions of a selection of 21 papers taken from the 125 presented during the Fifth International Conference and Exhibition on Ecological Vehicles and Renewable Energies (EVER’10, March 25-28, 2010).

Hosted by the principality of Monaco, EVER’10 was a forum of specialists coming from both universities and industries, involved in R&D projects in the area of ecological vehicles or renewable energies or both. They have had the opportunity to share their scientific, technical, business, and social experiences with other attendees coming from more than 34 countries, through the presentation and the discussion of their recent work in 19 sessions scheduled in the final program of EVER’10.

Following its resubmission to the Program Committee of EVER-Monaco Conferences, each selected paper has been the subject of a peer-review process involving at least two specialists. Some invited papers have been also included. The published papers could be classified under an overall topic, that is: “Electric Machines and Systems: Design, Analysis, and Control” with applications in automotive as well as in renewable generating systems.

Over the last two decades and up to the current time, it is widely recognized that permanent magnet (PM) synchronous machines are attractive candidates especially for direct-drive applications that eliminate gearboxes or other transmission components between the electric machine and the mechanically coupled system. However, owing to the significant increase in the rare-earth PM cost, a growing attention to induction machines is presently re-energized especially in large-scale production industries such as the automotive one. This special issue is mainly dedicated to the design, analysis, and control of PM synchronous and induction machines.

I would like to congratulate his Excellency Bernard Fautrier, Plenipotentiary Minister of Monaco, and General Chairman of EVER’10, for his priceless support. I would like to thank all members of the Program Committee of EVER-Monaco Conferences, for their efforts in selecting and re-reviewing the published papers. I would like to express my truthful acknowledgments to Professor Jan K. Sykulski, the Editor-in-Chief of COMPEL, and to the staff of Emerald Group Publishing Limited especially to Dr Harry Colson, Publisher, Emerald Engineering. Finally, I could not forget that EVER’10 was a great success; thanks to the efforts of all members of the local organizing committee especially its Chairman Mrs Ariane Favaloro for whom I would like to express my sincere gratitude.

Ahmed MasmoudiGuest Editor