The permanent magnet synchronous machine with an external rotor is the most important device for high performance electrical drive systems in particular for hybrid electric vehicles. With such an application, the machine will operate in a wide speed range and on the other hand with very fast changing loads in both motor and generator operational modes. The paper discusses finite element analyse...

Winding function method (WFM) provides a detailed and rather simple analytical modeling and simulation technique for analyzing performance of faulty squirrel-cage induction motors (SCIMs). Such analysis is mainly applicable for designing on-line fault diagnosis techniques. In this paper, WFM is extended to include variable degree of magnetic saturation by applying an appropriate air gap functio...

The paper deals with modeling of synchronous reluctance motor (SynRM) accounting for all phenomena responsible for torque ripple. Based on winding function approach, the proposed model consists in computing self and mutual inductances considering no sinusoidal distribution of stator windings, slotting effect and no sinusoidal reluctance variation caused by the rotor saliency. Then, optimal curr...

Permanent magnet brushless DC (PMBLDC) motors are the latest choice of researchers due to their high efficiency, silent operation, compact size, high reliability and low maintenance requirements. These motors are preferred for numerous applications; however, most of them require sensorless control of these motors. The operation of PMBLDC motors requires rotor-position sensing for controlling th...

Abstract: At present, because of their advantages of simple structure, low cost, low power consumption and high efficiency, single winding bearingless permanent magnet synchronous motors (SBPMSMs) have become one of the research hotspots in the bearingless technology field. However, a high motional-electromotive force (EMF) is generated by rotor rotation in the single winding, which already has...

Although PSPICE is a powerful tool to simulate the circuits, it is a tough job to simulate the electromagnetic behavior of a converter-fed motor drive, particularly the switched reluctance motor (SRM) with many nonlinearities in its constituted components. Therefore, a simulation environment of the SRM drive combining the features of POWERSYS and SIMULINK is developed in this paper. In the esta...

Recently, the industry is more and more interested in fractional slot concentrated windings (FSCW), because of many advantages such as high power density and low manufacturing costs. Novel FSCWs often consist of several winding systems. This structure allows the creation of good MMF distributions with low space harmonic contents and reduces undesirable side effects, such as localized core satur...

The electrical machine using induced excitation system is a kind of brushless self-excited machine with low cost and high reliability, the induced excited machine would provide high power density at high-speed. But the low efficiency of the excitation system limits the development of this kind machine. Based on traditional excitation system, an improved construction induced excitation system is...

This paper deals with a fault-tolerant semi-12-phase permanent-magnet synchronous machine (PMSM) used for electric vehicles. High fault-tolerant and low toque ripple features are achieved by employing fractional slot concentrated windings (FSCWs) and open windings. Excessive magnetomotive force (MMF) harmonic components can lead to thermal demagnetization of rotor magnets as well as high core l...