Design and Analysis of Wireless Resolver for Wireless Switched Reluctance Motors

Hui Wang, K. T. Chau, Christopher H.T. Lee, Xiaoyang Tian

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Abstract

In this article, a wireless resolver is proposed and implemented for wireless switched reluctance (SR) motors, which can detect the rotor position and transfer the information to the primary side without involving any battery storage or active components at the secondary side. The key is to integrate wireless power transfer (WPT) into a variable reluctance resolver to detect and transmit the rotor position. Compared with previous wireless SR motors adopting the Hall effect position encoder and Bluetooth communication, the robustness is highly improved, and the communication delay caused by the connection interval can be solved. Therefore, the proposed system takes the definite advantages of better dynamic performance and sealability. Besides, there is no need to specially design the SR motor, as all existing SR motors and other similar kinds of motors can readily employ this wireless resolver. An experimental prototype has been built for verification, which works well from 100 to 900 rpm with 20 mm WPT distance, and the additional power for position detection can be limited to 1.05 W while the motor consumes 54 W.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2221-2230
Number of pages10
JournalIEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
Volume70
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2023
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Resolver
  • switch reluctance motor
  • wireless motor
  • wireless power transfer (WPT)

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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