Open AccessDesign methodology for high‐speed synchronous reluctance machines
Author(s) -
Babetto Cristian,
Bacco Giacomo,
Bianchi Nicola
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
iet electric power applications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1751-8679
DOI - 10.1049/iet-epa.2017.0872
Subject(s) - magnetic reluctance , rotor (electric) , synchronous motor , computer science , switched reluctance motor , differential (mechanical device) , reluctance motor , control engineering , speedup , control theory (sociology) , engineering , mechanical engineering , electrical engineering , magnet , aerospace engineering , artificial intelligence , parallel computing , control (management)
This study presents two design methodologies for high‐speed synchronous reluctance (REL) machines. The interest for high‐speed drives comes from the request for compactness and high efficiency. The synchronous REL motors have been widely studied for several applications, but a coherent design procedure for high speed has not been proposed in the literature. The study proposes some analytical procedures to get an initial design. Then the rotor geometry optimisation through a differential evolution algorithm is described. Finally, a design example is given and thoroughly analysed using these two approaches.