Optimal Design of Stator Slot Geometry for High-Speed Spindle Induction Motor Applications

This paper describes the optimal design for the geometry of a stator slot for use in high-speed spindle motor applications. The proposed method consists of the following three steps: first, choose the parameters of the stator slot that has a strong influence on the stator current, stator winding loss, iron loss, total loss, efficiency, and torque by using the analysis of the effects of stator slot geometry; second, create factors and levels in the Taguchi method to obtain the optimal combination of the stator slot parameters from the analysis effect of the parameter results; third, using Genetic Algorithms (GAs) to determine the optimal value from the optimal combination of the results of the Taguchi method. Optimal design and performance analysis was performed using the Finite element Method (FEM) and verification by using equivalent circuit analysis. The optimization results were evaluated by comparing them with original performance. According to the test results and analysis, the optimal design of the stator slot geometry produces better performance than original design.