The performance of Switched Reluctance (SR) motor drive systems using rotor position transducers has been satisfactory, but the potential of SR drives for providing economical, robust, compact and reliable drive systems which can operate in harsh environments, has made the development of sensorless system desirable. A system which can detect rotor position without a conventional position sensor...

This paper utilizes the wavelet packet transform to study the effects of decreasing the number of slots per pole per phase on the harmonic behavior of the working flux density in the air gap. A surface mounted PM motor is used as an example. The original design contains 6 PM poles and 36 stator slots with three phase winding embedded. The rotor is redesigned to have 4, 8, and 12 poles mounted o...

There has always been doubt on the accuracy of 2D analysis of small electric machines. To investigate the validity of this doubt, in this present work a small uni-coil shaded-pole induction motor is analyzed in 2D and 3D and the results are compared. In order to maintain the paper size as compact, the analysis is limited to the air-gap flux density distribution, variation of the main winding in...

Due to its particular configuration, the Consequent Pole Permanent Magnet (CPPM) machine allows one to easily control the airgap flux in a wide range so that the power capability of the machine is increased over a wide speed range. Two components of the flux, one almost constantcoming from the permanent magnet located on the rotor surface of the machine, and the other –variablecoming from a fie...

The aim of this paper is to develop an intelligent diagnosis method for fault detection and isolation in induction motors. We consider failures in three components of induction motor: bearing, stator winding and rotor winding. Firstly, a model-based nonlinear observer in the proposed method is designed based on available information. The fault detection decision is carried out by comparing the ...

The performance of Switched Reluctance (SR) motor drive systems using rotor position transducers has been satisfactory, but the potential of SR drives for providing economical, robust, compact and reliable drive systems which can operate in harsh environments, has made the development of sensorless system desirable. A system which can detect rotor position without a conventional position sensor...

It is important to clarify the eddy current losses in permanent magnet rotor for temperature rising to induce irreversible demagnetization when the bearingless permanent magnet synchronous motor (BPMSM) is operating at high speed. In this paper, the torque and radial suspension force producing mechanisms of BPMSM are introduced. The relative motion relationships among radial suspension force, r...

The paper presents a three-dimensional finite element analysis applicable to all forms of sheet rotor, cylindrical, linear induction motor, as well as, helical motion induction motor. The analysis accounts for longitudinal and transverse end effects, skin depth and finite sheet thickness; furthermore, there is practically no restriction on the shape of magnetic circuit that can be considered. I...

Stator turn faults in permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) are more dangerous than those in induction motors (IMs) because of the presence of spinning rotor magnets that can be turned off at will. Condition monitoring and fault detection and diagnosis of the PMSM have been receiving a growing amount of attention among scientists and engineers in the past few years. The aim of this study ...