Influence of Winding Distribution on Fault Tolerant Performance in a Fault-Tolerant Permanent Magnet Rim Driven Motor

The Fault-Tolerant Permanent Magnet Rim Driven Motor (FTPM-RDM) is a high performance, high reliability marine driven motor. The short-circuit current and the mutual inductance voltage generated by the short-circuit current are important parameters to indicate the fault-tolerant performance of a motor. Increasing self-inductance and decreasing mutual inductance is an important method to improve fault tolerance of a FTPM-RDM. In this paper, the influence of positive wounded winding structure and positive and negative wounded winding structure of a 24-slot motor on the self-inductance and mutual inductance is analyzed by the winding function method. The conclusion that the positive and negative wounded winding structure has high self-inductance and low mutual inductance is revealed. This conclusion is generalized to the winding design in a general structure motor, and a generalized method of winding reconstruction is proposed. The simulation results show that the proposed winding reconstruction method can effectively increase self-inductance and significantly reduce mutual inductance to improve the fault tolerance of a FTPM-RDM. A motor prototype is produced and the experimental results have verified the correctness and feasibility of the proposed method.