Rotor design for sensorless position estimation in permanent-magnet machines

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3815-3824

  Wrobel, Rafal ^a   Budden, Alan S ^b   Salt, Dan ^a   Holliday, Derrick ^a   Mellor, Phil H ^a   Dinu, Andrei ^c   Sangha, Parmider ^c   Holme, Mark ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Rotork Controls Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c GOODRICH CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Permanent magnet (PM) machine; sensorless control

Indexed keywords

DESIGN PROCESS; FINITE-ELEMENT; HIGH-FREQUENCY INJECTION; LOW-SPEED SENSORLESS CONTROL; PERFORMANCE SPECIFICATIONS; PERMANENT-MAGNET MACHINE; POSITION SENSORLESS CONTROL; ROTOR DESIGN; ROTOR POSITION ESTIMATION; SENSOR LESS CONTROL; SENSORLESS; SENSORLESS POSITION ESTIMATION;

DIRECT INJECTION; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; MACHINE DESIGN; ROTORS (WINDINGS);

PERMANENT MAGNETS;

EID: 80051737034     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2010.2093484     Document Type: Article

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