Development of a spherical induction motor with two degrees of freedom

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2077-2089

  Dehez, B ^a   Galary, G ^a   Grenier, D ^b   Raucent, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Design; Induction motor; Modeling; Multi degrees of freedom; Spherical motor

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; RAPID PROTOTYPING; ROTORS; SPEED CONTROL; TORQUE;

MODELING; MULTI DEGREES OF FREEDOM; SPHERICAL MOTORS;

INDUCTION MOTORS;

EID: 33746896620     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.876473     Document Type: Article

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