Rotor Position Sensing in Switched Reluctance Motor Drives by Measuring Mutually Induced Voltages

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 665-672

  Husain, Iqbal ^a   Ehsani, Mehrdad ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDDY CURRENTS; ELECTRIC COMMUTATION; ELECTRIC CONTROL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRIC DRIVES; ELECTRIC WAVEFORMS; MICROCOMPUTERS; POSITION CONTROL; ROTORS (WINDINGS); SENSORS; STATORS; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

ENERGIZED STATOR; ROTOR POSITION SENSING; SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTOR DRIVES; WAVEFORM DETECTION;

RELUCTANCE MOTORS;

EID: 0028427371     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: 19399367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/28.293715     Document Type: Article

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