A New Method to Measure the Switched Reluctance Motor´s Flux

This paper presents a method to measure the flux linkage curves of a switched reluctance motor (SRM) that avoids the inherent errors introduced by iron and copper losses using the classic method of applying a voltage to the phase of the SRM and integrating it, minus a resistive voltage drop to get the flux. In the proposed method, the flux is computed from the measured static torque using conservation of energy and from the SRM´s measured unaligned inductance. In this paper, the method is applied to measured torque data from an experimental SRM and to torque calculated by finite-element analysis (FEA). The experimental results and FEA results are compared with the results obtained using the classic method and an analytical model