This paper presents a comparative study of two types of wound field three-phase switched-flux machine (SFM) with non-overlap winding and salient rotor. Both armature and field winding are located on the stator and rotor is composed of only stack of iron. Non-overlap armature and field windings and toothed-rotor are the clear advantages of these machines as the copper losses gets reduce and roto...

Recently, many optimal designs for axial flux permanent magnet (AFPM) motors were performed based on finiteelement (FE) analysis. Most of the models are based on reduction of 3D problem to 2D problem which is not accurate for design aspects. This paper describes an accurate electromagnetic analysis of a surface mounted, 28 pole AFPM with concentrated stator winding. The AFPM is modeled with thr...

In this study, design, implementation, and power performance analyses of a micro wind turbine (MWT) system are presented. An original permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) that reduced cogging torque was employed as a generator in the MWT. A novel blade form offering better performance at low wind speeds was also utilized for the MWT blades. Power performance analyses of the MWT were ca...

In this paper, a robust adaptive nonlinear dynamic controller is designed to achieve practical stabilization for position tracking error of a voltage-fed permanentmagnet stepper motor. The control design is an outputfeedback design that utilizes only rotor position and velocity measurements. Currents are not available for feedback. Adaptations are utilized so that no knowledge of motor paramete...