Optimal Winding Arrangements of a Bearingless Switched Reluctance Motor

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 3056-3066

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

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Bearingless motor; midpoint voltage; neutral leg; switched reluctance motor (SRM); winding arrangement

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008536900     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: 19410107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2008.2002070     Document Type: Article

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