Tangentially-Magnetized-Slot-PM-Assisted Magnet Saturation Relieving Design for Doubly Salient Reluctance Machine Position Sensorless Drive Electric Propulsion Applications

For doubly salient reluctance machines, the magnetic saturation effect easily occurs, thereby the saturated inductance with complex analytical expression brings difficulties to the inductance modeling procedure during position sensorless control. To tackle this issue, a direct solution from electrical machine design is introduced to regulate magnetic flux distribution. The key is to insert tangentially-magnetized-slot-permanent-magnet into stator slots, thus relieving the magnetic saturation in the stator teeth. Consequently, unsaturated inductance characteristics can be acquired through the magnetic saturation relieving effect, thereby the inductance modeling effort can be significantly decreased, and such design is friendly for doubly salient reluctance machine position sensorless drive application.