Design and Control of Electrical Motor Drives

<p>I am very happy to have this Special Issue of the journal <em>Energies</em> on the topic of Design and Control of Electrical Motor Drives published. Electrical motor drives are widely used in the industry automation transportation and home appliances. Indeed rolling mills machine tools high-speed trains subway systems elevators electric vehicles air conditioners all depend on electrical motor drives.However the production of effective and practical motors and drives requires flexibility in the regulation of current torque flux acceleration position and speed. Without proper modeling drive and control these motor drive systems cannot function effectively.To address these issues we need to focus on the design modeling drive and control of different types of motors such as induction motors permanent magnet synchronous motors brushless DC motors DC motors synchronous reluctance motors switched reluctance motors flux-switching motors linear motors and step motors.Therefore relevant research topics in this field of study include modeling electrical motor drives both in transient and in steady-state and designing control methods based on novel control strategies (e.g. PI controllers fuzzy logic controllers neural network controllers predictive controllers adaptive controllers nonlinear controllers etc.) with particular attention to transient responses load disturbances fault tolerance and multi-motor drive techniques. This SI include original contributions regarding recent developments and ideas in motor design motor drive and motor control. The topics include motor design field-oriented control torque control reliability improvement advanced controllers for motor drive systems DSP-based sensorless motor drive systems high-performance motor drive systems high-efficiency motor drive systems and practical applications of motor drive systems. I want to sincerely thank authors reviewers and staff members for their time and efforts.</p>