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A Study on the Calculation and Reduction Method of Torque Ripple for


Permanent Magnet Assisted Synchronous Reluctance Motor by using the
Load Angle Curves
Ki-Chan Kim, Joon Seon Ahn, Sung Hong Won and Ju Lee, Senior Member IEEE
Department of Electrical Engineering, Hanyang University
Haengdang, Seongdong, Seoul, 133-791, Korea
channykim@ihanyang.ac.kr
angle, but shows torque property adding torque ripple. If so,
the superposition of toque angle curve by inputting the current
of each state from 2nd to 7th from Fig.3 gives us torque ripple
and average torque at the given torque angle. Fig. 2(b) shows
the results by proposed analysis method.

Abstract The paper presents a new method for torque ripple


calculation of permanent magnet assisted synchronous reluctance
motor (PMa-SynRM) by load angle curve simulations. We can
directly detect the load angle of minimum torque ripple and
maximum average torque by several load angle curves with
different current state. The analysis results were verified by the
experiment.
I.

INTRODUCTION

In a synchronous reluctance motor (SynRM), high saliency


ratio is required to achieve high torque and power factor.
However it is very difficult to increase saliency ratio with
small rotor. So, we insert permanent magnets into the barriers
for high torque. The advantages of PMa-SynRM compared to
IPM motor are low back emf and wide constant power region
with a small d-axis current at the field weakening control area.
On the contrary, PMa-SynRM has larger torque ripple due to
its complex barrier structure [1].
The magnitude of torque ripple as well as average torque
is changed by load angle. Therefore we should analyze the
characteristics of torque ripple according to load angle. This
paper presents an efficient method for torque ripple
calculation by load angle curve calculation by FEM.
II.

(a) Condition of Input currents (b) Analysis results of torque angle curve
Fig. 2. The torque ripple calculation method by torque angle curve
IV.

VERIFICATION OF TORQUE RIPPLE CHARACTERISTIC

In the Fig. 2(b), we can see that torque ripple at the load
angle 90 is smaller than that at 130. In order to verify the
proposed method, we perform the time stepping FE simulation
with sinusoidal rated current source and fixed load angle
points. Fig. 3 shows the results of torque ripple waveform, and
it gives good agreement with results by proposed method.
We are going to presenting the effective magnet
distribution method in barriers by proposed method in order to
minimize torque ripple.

ANALYSIS MODEL OF PMA-SYNRM

We should design the optimal barriers of a rotor in order to


maximize the saliency ratio [2]. In the paper, we inserted PM
in the middle of barriers as shown in Fig. 1(a). Fig. 1(b) shows
the FEM analysis model for torque ripple calculation.

Fig. 3. Torque ripple waveform by time stepping FE analysis


V.

This work was financially supported in part by Korea Energy Management


Corporation through the Energy Technology R&D program.

(a) Rotor of PMa-SynRM


(b) FEM analysis model
Fig. 1. The analysis model of PMa-SynRM
III.

VI. REFERENCES

ANALYSIS OF TORQUE ANGLE CURVE

In order to analyze torque property according to load angle,


we just perform a FE analysis generally on an assumption that
the dc currents at 1st point of Fig.2 (a) flow into the three
phase windings, and then rotor rotates up to 180 electrical
angles. However, the load angle curve by single condition of
dc current dose not presents average torque at each torque

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

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Niazi, P. and Toliyat, H.A., Design of a low-cost concentric winding


permanent magnet assisted synchronous reluctance motor drive,
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pp. 17441748, 2-6 Oct. 2005
I. Boldea, T. Fukao, T.A. Lipo, L. Malesani, T.J.E. Miller and A. Vagati,
Synchronous Reluctance Motors and Drives A New Alternative, IEEE
IAS 29th Annual Meeting, Oct. 1994.

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