Design, control and implementation of a non-rare-earth flux switching permanent magnet machine

This paper presents the control and performance of the Flux Switching Permanent Magnet (FSPM) machine designed and built with non-rare-earth magnets. The design objective has been minimization of volume and cost, and reduction of cogging torque, noise and vibrations. A comprehensive methodology has been adopted for the design of a 12/10 segmented stator structure FSPM. Machine parameters have been identified with a nonlinear model taking mutual coupling and saturation into account. Stator flux oriented vector controller has been implemented using the machine parameters. Experimental results for the designed and fabricated are included for performance validation.