A Versatile Workbench Simulator: Five-phase Inverter and PMa-SynRM performance evaluation

This paper presents the design and structure of a versatile workbench simulator for evaluating the performance of a five-phase inverter and Permanent Magnet assisted Synchronous Reluctance Motor (PMa-SynRM). The simulator allows for adding variations to the modulation techniques, changing the inverter structure's semiconductor device, and calculating the inverter's power losses. It can also facilitate observing the current, voltage, and the joint temperature of the semiconductors devices. Furthermore, we can obtain a perform that is close to an actual PMa-SynRM, depending on the desired conditions of speed and torque. The workbench simulator was developed by combining three software: Matlab/Simulink, PLECS and Altair Flux.