New procedures for minimizing the torque ripple in switched reluctance motors by optimizing the phase-current profile

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1184-1192

  Shaked, Natan Tzvi ^a   Rabinovici, Raul ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithms; Optimization methods; Switched reluctance motors

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; ONLINE SEARCHING; OPTIMIZATION; ROTORS; SWITCHING; TABLE LOOKUP; TORQUE;

HARMONIC CURRENTS; OPTIMIZATION METHODS; SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTORS (SRM); TORQUE RIPPLES;

RELUCTANCE MOTORS;

EID: 15844370552     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2004.843311     Document Type: Article

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