Brushless DC motor with high torque density and slim topology for easy loading for robot system is proposed and manufactured. Electromagnetic design is executed by equivalent magnetic circuit model and numerical analysis. Manufactured motor is tested and verified characteristics comparing with conventional BLDC motor. Keywords—Brushless DC motor, Robot joint module, Torque density, Pole/slot ratio

This Paper presents a particle swarm optimization (PSO) method for determining the optimal proportional-integralderivative (PID) controller parameters, for speed control of a linear brushless DC motor. The proposed approach has superior features, including easy implementation, stable convergence characteristic and good computational efficiency. The brushless DC motor is modelled in Simulink and...

ermanent Magnet Brushless DC Motor (PMBLDC) is one of the best electrical drives that have increasing popularity, due to their high efficiency, reliability, good dynamic response and very low maintenance. Due to the increasing demand for compact & reliable motors and the evolution of low cost power semiconductor switches and permanent magnet (PM) materials, brushless DC motors become popular in...

Within the appliance motor control industry there is an increasing trend to move towards using brushless dc motors. This trend is in response to recent legislation mandating improved efficiency standards in appliance applications. Brushless dc motors do however require rotor position information in order to select the appropriate commutation angle. In cost sensitive applications such as applian...

Brushless dc (BLDC) motor drives are continually gaining popularity in motion control applications. Therefore, it is necessary to have a low cost, but effective BLDC motor speed/torque regulator. They are used in Residential and commercial appliances such as refrigerators and air conditioning systems with conventional motor drive technology. A Brushless DC (BLDC) drives are known for higher eff...

This paper deals with the Direct Torque Control (DTC) of Brushless DC (BLDC) motor drives fed by four-switch inverters (also known as B4inverters) rather than six-switch inverters (also known as B6 inverters) in conventional drives. The principle of operation of the BLDC motor is firstly recalled considering both cases of B6and B4-inverters in the armature, with emphasis on the twoand three-pha...

Variable speed drive systems of brushless DC motors have been widely used for industry applications, home electric appliances, and so on, due to the progress of the power electronics, because of simple structure, easy maintenance, high efficiency, etc.. Moreover, because the brushless DC motor can realize the same high performance as DC motor, it is used in the fields where the high speed and h...

This paper describes the analysis and design of a low cost three phase inverter brushless dc motor (BLDC) drive.For effective utilization of the developed system, a novel direct current controlled pwm scheme (DPC)is designed and implemented.. The operational principle of the four-switch BLDC motor drive and the developed control scheme are theoretically analyzed and the performance is demonstra...

Received Nov 21, 2017 Revised Jan 29, 2018 Accepted Feb 17, 2018 This paper presents a performance investigation of bldc motor employing KY converter. Conventional The landsman converter is used to minimize the ripples but the inverter produces high output power ripples, which in turn affect the output of the inverter in The proposed KY converter reduces ripples and smooth dc supply gives to th...

This article introduces a sort of intelligent brushless DC motor driver and its concrete application in electric bicycle, and discusses the hardware and software design scheme of the controller, and realizes the speed control, over-current protection and battery under-voltage protection of the brushless DC motor. And the experiment result indicates that the control effect is good, and it could ...