Design and control of an axial-flux machine for a wide flux-weakening operation region

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1258-1266

  Kwon, Tae Suk ^a   Sul, Seung Ki ^a   Alberti, Luigi ^b   Bianchi, Nicola ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

AC motor drives; Axial flux (AxF) motor; Flux weakening (FW) control; Fractional slot machines

Indexed keywords

AC MOTOR DRIVES; AXIAL FLUX MACHINES; AXIAL-FLUX (AXF) MOTOR; BACK ELECTROMOTIVE FORCE; COGGING TORQUE; CURRENT REGULATORS; DESIGN AND CONTROL; DESIGN PROCEDURE; END WINDINGS; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FLUX WEAKENING; FLUX-WEAKENING (FW) CONTROL; FRACTIONAL-SLOT; FRACTIONAL-SLOT MACHINES; OPERATING REGIONS; OUTPUT TORQUE; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PERMANENT-MAGNET MACHINE; PROTOTYPE MACHINE; SPEED RANGE; VOLTAGE DIFFERENCE; VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER;

AC MOTORS; ALGORITHMS; CONTROLLERS; ELECTRIC DRIVES; ELECTRIC MACHINERY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROMOTIVE FORCE; MACHINE WINDINGS; MOTORS; PERMANENT MAGNETS; POWER CONVERTERS; SYNCHRONOUS MOTORS; VENDING MACHINES; WINDING;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 68249139793     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2009.2023390     Document Type: Article

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