Performance improvement of a high-speed permanent magnet excited synchronous machine by flux-barrier design

摘要

Due to their high power density and high overall efficiency permanent magnet excited synchronous machines are beneficial to be applied in traction drives of full electric or hybrid-electric vehicles with limited installation space. To improve the performance, additional flux-barriers can be inserted to the rotor of the machine. In this paper, the effects of different flux-barrier positions and sizes are systematically studied. Command variables for the improvement are average torque, torque ripple, total harmonic distortion of the back-emf, iron losses and efficiency.