A Real-Time Thermal Model of a Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Motor

This paper presents a real-time thermal model with calculated parameters based on the geometry of the different components of a permanent-magnet synchronous motor. The model in state-space format has been discretized and a model-order reduction has been applied to minimize the complexity. The model has been implemented in a DSP and predicts the temperature of the different parts of the motor accurately in all operating conditions, i.e., steady-state, transient, and stall torque. The results have been compared with real measurements using temperature transducers showing very good performance of the proposed thermal model.

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