Optimal design of a permanent magnet synchronous motor: Application of in-wheel motor

Author

Hejra, Msaddek ; Mansouri, Anass ; Trabeisi, Hafedh

Author_Institution

CES Lab., Eng. Sch. of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

fYear

2014

fDate

25-27 March 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper deals with the design of an in-wheel permanent magnet synchronous motor. As the integration of the motor in a wheel is a hard task (motor must has high efficiency and total mass as low as possible), we investigate a method to obtain an optimal design of a surface mounted permanent magnet in-wheel motor for the propulsion of a small electric vehicle. Firstly, an analytical model of the machine was developed. Then this model is used to generate the program to design the machine according to the specifications: to minimizing the total mass and maximizing the machine efficiency.

Keywords

electric propulsion; electric vehicles; permanent magnet motors; synchronous motors; wheels; machine efficiency; propulsion; small electric vehicle; surface mounted in-wheel permanent magnet synchronous motor; total mass minimization; Induction motors; Magnetic flux; Optimization; Permanent magnet motors; Rotors; Stators; Synchronous motors; Genetic Algorithm; In-wheel motor; design; modelling; optimization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Renewable Energy Congress (IREC), 2014 5th International

Conference_Location

Hammamet

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2196-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IREC.2014.6826903

Filename

6826903