Comparison of Cogging Torque Reduction in Permanent Magnet Brushless Machines by Conventional and Herringbone Skewing Techniques

Cogging torque, as one of the main parasitic demerits of permanent magnet brushless machines, is of particular importance and primary concern during the machine design stage in many high-performance applications. Hence, numerous design techniques have been proposed and employed to effectively alleviate the cogging torque in permanent magnet brushless machines. The effects of rotor step skewing techniques including both conventional and herringbone styles on the cogging torque of permanent magnet brushless machine are comprehensively investigated and compared by synthesized 2-D and 3-D finite-element analysis in this paper. The results have revealed that both the conventional and herringbone rotor step skewing techniques can reduce the cogging torque significantly, but the latter is less effective than the former especially with small skewing step numbers. Moreover, the machine with herringbone rotor step skewing technique has rather peculiar and asymmetric cogging torque profiles, while the machine with conventional rotor step skewing technique exhibits normal and symmetric ones. The validity of the obtained results and findings is underpinned by the experiments on the prototype machine.

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