Compensation Strategy of Levitation Forces for Single-Winding Bearingless Switched Reluctance Motor With One Winding Total Short Circuited

In order to take advantage of conventional switched reluctance motors (SRMs), the SRM is integrated with the bearingless motor technology and then a reluctance type of bearingless motor is created, named as bearingless SRM (BSRMs). Not only electromagnetic torque but also the levitation forces should be controlled in BSRMs, which is different from SRMs. The levitation forces should always exist even when winding fault occurs. Therefore, the absent levitation forces that ought to be produced by the fault winding should then be compensated by other winding. This paper proposes the compensation strategy of levitation forces for BSRMs when one stator winding is short circuited. The short-circuit fault is investigated and the short-circuit current is expressed for the derivation of radial forces. Then, the winding compensation rule and the mathematical model of levitation forces are developed to facilitate the compensation control for the motor levitation. After that, the proposed compensation strategy is verified by simulation results in MATLAB/Simulink. Experimental results are also presented to demonstrate the performance.