Independent Control of Average Torque and Radial Force in Bearingless Switched-Reluctance Motors With Hybrid Excitations

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1376-1385

  Cao, Xin ^a   Deng, Zhiquan ^a   Wang, Xiaolin ^a   Yang, Gang ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b General Electronic Company Healthcare   (China)

Author keywords

Bearingless motor; independent control; radial force; switched reluctance motor (SRM); torque

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008020486     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: 19410107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2016568     Document Type: Article

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