Research into wide speed range control of a TORUS motor

Author

Pan, Honglin ; Renfrew, A.C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Electron., Univ. of Manchester Inst. of Sci. & Technol., UK

Volume

2

fYear

1995

Firstpage

640

Abstract

Toroidal stator permanent magnet brushless DC machines are novel, double-sided, axial-flux, disc type machines with high power to weight ratio and high efficiency. A TORUS motor works very much like a separately excited DC motor with very low armature reaction. To extend the TORUS motor into the electrical traction field, a method for wide speed range is proposed by weakening the flux created by the permanent magnets. According to this scheme, experiments and modelling of the motor are carried out. The results prove the assumption is feasible. The implementation of this project is carried out with an improved IGBT inverter using a Flight-68 K microprocessor as controller

Keywords

DC motor drives; DC-AC power convertors; bipolar transistor switches; brushless DC motors; digital control; insulated gate bipolar transistors; invertors; machine control; machine testing; machine theory; microcomputer applications; permanent magnet motors; power bipolar transistors; power engineering computing; power semiconductor switches; stators; traction motor drives; velocity control; Flight-68 K microprocessor; IGBT inverter; TORUS motor; electrical traction; experiments; flux weakening; modelling; toroidal stator PM brushless DC machines; wide speed range control; Armature; Brushless DC motors; DC machines; DC motors; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Inverters; Permanent magnet motors; Permanent magnets; Stators; Traction motors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Energy Management and Power Delivery, 1995. Proceedings of EMPD '95., 1995 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2981-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMPD.1995.500802

Filename

500802