Modern electrical machines employed in transportation applications are required to provide high performance terms of power (and torque) density. At the same time, being these safety-critical, a significant level reliability and/or fault tolerance is expected. Among all factors which can compromise motors reliability, partial discharges (PDs) inception one most crucial, particular for low voltag...

The detection of partial discharges (PD) can help in early-warning detection systems to protect critical assets in power systems. The radio-frequency emission of these events can be measured with antennas even when the equipment is in service which reduces dramatically the maintenance costs and favours the implementation of condition-based monitoring systems. The drawback of these type of measu...