Fault tolerant control for a five-phase flux-switching permanent magnet machine

Recently, multi-phase flux-switching (FS) permanent-magnet (PM) (FSPM) machines have received considerable attention in high performance and critical drive applications because of their remarkable advantages including high power density and high efficiency, especially the inherent fault-tolerant capacity. On the other hand, in terms of fault tolerant strategies, most of the researches are focused on PM synchronous machines (PMSMs). However, the fault tolerant strategy for a five-phase “E-core” FSPM machine, in which a fault-tolerant teeth lies in every stator element, has not been covered in depth, and it is exactly the aim of this paper.