This paper discusses the suitability of four-phase, five-phase, and six-phase modular machines, for use in applications where servo characteristics and fault tolerance are key requirements. It is shown that an optimum slot number and pole number combination exists, for which excellent servo characteristics could be achieved, under healthy operating conditions, with minimum effects on the power ...

The permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) and the brushless dc motor (BDCM) have many similarities; they both have permanent magnets on the rotor and require alternating stator currents to produce constant torque. The difference in these two machines is that the PMSM and the BDCM has sinusoidal and trapezoidal back emfs, respectively. This means these two machines have different operating c...

Axial Flux Ironless permanent magnetic synchronous motor (AFIPMSM) is a new permanent magnetic motor. It has many advantages, such as high torque-to-weight ratio, good efficiency, no cogging torque, and the sinusoidal back EMF. It gradually becomes the good choice in drive system. However, the small armature winding inductance causes the current is not continued with the PWM control based on VS...

Performing fast and accurate methods for modeling the electrical machines has been the subject of several studies and many authors proposed different procedures to attain this aim. Beside the accuracy, the speed of the method is of great concern. On the other hand, the capability of the method to be changed according to the need is another important issue. Finite Element method provides relativ...

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...

This paper presents the design considerations for a fractional slot multi-phase modular permanent magnet (PM) machine with single-layer concentrated windings. The winding factors for various slot/pole number combinations are calculated to identify the optimal slot/pole number combinations for different phase numbers. In addition, the electromagnetic performance influenced by flux gaps (FGs), su...

Effect of rotor iron pole radii and skew on performance of interior permanent magnet motors is studied in this paper. A comparison is carried out by finite element analysis method and is confirmed by the experimental results obtained with two laboratory prototypes. The results show that, although the skew method is very effective in suppressing the cogging torque of an interior permanent magnet...