Investigation and practice for basic theory of switched reluctance generators

This paper is the synthetic report of the switched reluctance generator (SRG). It focuses on principle of SRG and analysis of the phase-current waveform. Four control schemes whose are angle position control, chopping-current control, PWM and excitation voltage control are analyzed contrastively. Finally, the experimental results of 6/4, 6/6, 8/8 SRG are presented, which implies that this novel generator can operate in a wide application range with some superior characteristics such as: simple construction, high power density, high capacity of overloading, high fault-tolerance performance, high steady and transient performance.