Advances in Rotating Electric Machines

It is difficult to imagine a modern society without rotating electric machines. Their use has been increasing not only in the traditional fields of application but also in more contemporary fields including renewable energy conversion systems electric aircraft aerospace electric vehicles unmanned propulsion systems robotics etc. This has contributed to advances in the materials design methodologies modeling tools and manufacturing processes of current electric machines which are characterized by high compactness low weight high power density high torque density and high reliability. On the other hand the growing use of electric machines and drives in more critical applications has pushed forward the research in the area of condition monitoring and fault tolerance leading to the development of more reliable diagnostic techniques and more fault-tolerant machines. This book presents and disseminates the most recent advances related to the theory design modeling application control and condition monitoring of all types of rotating electric machines.