Design, analysis and comparison of switched reluctance motors for electric vehicle application

Abstract

This paper presents the design, analysis and comparative study of three different configurations of Switched Reluctance Motor (SRM) suitable for In-wheel application in Electric Vehicles. C-core stator with dual rotor SRM, C-core stator with disk-type segmented rotor SRM and Dual gap inner segmented rotor SRM are designed and compared for the same stator/rotor pole, supply current, current density and outer diameter. The significant performance indices of an electric motor for an in-wheel application, such as torque ripple, torque per unit active weight and torque per unit active volume, are considered for analysis. 3D Finite Element Analysis (FEA) of the machines is performed using the software MagNet 7.5 due to the axial field distribution of the configurations. The best among the three configurations is fabricated and experimental results are presented.

Keywords

• Axial flux switched reluctance motor
• electric vehicles
• finite element analysis
• in-wheel motors