Comparison of the main types of fault-tolerant electrical drives used in vehicle applications

A comparative study of several fault-tolerant electrical drives is presented in this paper. As the application is concerned, the authorspsila attention was oriented towards the vehicle transportation. Thus, the main electrical drives under study are: the induction, the switched reluctance and the permanent magnet synchronous machine, respectively. The present work will explore the aforementioned drivespsila capabilities in terms of fault-tolerant operation. The authors present a substantial study for the fault-tolerant issue in electrical drives by using finite element method (FEM). During this numerical analysis many phenomenon will be emphasized and, coming together with some tests, final conclusions will be depicted.