Advantages of switched reluctance motor applications to EV and HEV: design and control issues

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 111-121

  Rahman, Khwaja M ^a   Fahimi, Babak ^b   Suresh, G ^a   Rajarathnam, Anandan Velayutham ^a   Ehsani, M ^b  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC PROPULSION; ELECTRIC TRACTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MACHINE DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; ROTORS (WINDINGS); SPEED CONTROL; STATORS; TORQUE CONTROL;

CONSTANT POWER RANGE; HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE; SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTOR;

RELUCTANCE MOTORS;

EID: 0033872195     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/28.821805     Document Type: Article

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