A comparative study of two fault-tolerant dual-motor drive topologies under short-circuit inverter switch fault

This paper analyzes two dual-motor fault-tolerant topologies for aerospace thruster application. The first structure supplies independently both machines while the second one connects them in series for reducing the number of transistors and offering a capability of energy management between the sources. Inverter short-circuit fault is considered. Based on the peak-currents obtained in simulation in degraded mode without reconfiguration and with two different reconfiguration strategies, the two proposed topologies can be compared in economic and technical aspects.

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