Impact of Rotor Design on Interior Permanent-Magnet Machines With Concentrated and Distributed Windings for Signal Injection-Based Sensorless Control and Power Conversion

This paper examines the relationship between rotor design, saliency-based signal injection sensorless control, and power conversion properties for four industrially relevant interior permanent-magnet machine configurations: a 36-slot 6-pole stator with v bar rotor, a 36-slot 6-pole stator with flat bar rotor, a 9-slot 6-pole stator with v bar rotor, and a 9-slot 6-pole stator with flat bar rotor. The influence of rotor geometric design variables over the range of current densities at the maximum torque per ampere angle was found using a design of experiments' methodology and standardized regression coefficients. Tradeoffs between sensorless control and power conversion properties are found using a Monte Carlo methodology. Power conversion and sensorless control properties were analyzed using hybrid static and time-stepping finite-element simulations.

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