Design and Analysis of Single Inverter-Fed Brushless Wound Rotor Vernier Machine

Abstract

In this paper, a brushless wound rotor vernier machine (Bl-WRVM) with a single inverter configuration is proposed to achieve the brushless operation. In the proposed topology, a single inverter is connected with series-connected ABC and XYZ windings through which the current flow produces the magnetomotive force with fundamental and sub-harmonic components, respectively. The XYZ windings have similar pole pairs to the excitation windings, whereas its number of poles is different from the ABC winding. A 24-slot stator, 4-pole armature ABC winding, 2 Pole armature XYZ and excitation windings, and 44-pole field winding for the outer rotor is designed and 2D finite element analysis is carried out to determine the performance of the machine. The proposed topology makes the Bl-WRVM cost-effective by applying only a single inverter as compared to a dual-inverter Bl-WRVM and it improves its torque quality.

Keywords

• Brushless
• single-inverter-fed
• harmonic field excitation
• WRVMs