Past Motor Design, Operation, and
Control Research Projects

Motor design today can be performed at the system level, taking into account particular operating requirements and control opportunities. At the CEME, we seek answers to fundamental questions about the best use of materials, opportunities for new control concepts, and innovations in manufacturing. Improved steels, permanent magnets, insulation materials, modeling and simulation, and control methods are at the heart of revolutionary changes in electric machinery. Motors designed to operate specifically with electronic controls are leading to new possibilities. We are developing ways to make motors more efficient, more powerful, smaller, easier to build, and well matched to their applications. We plan to develop tools for designers that support these developments.

2006-2007

• Induction Machine Performance Improvements – Design-Oriented Approaches
• Knowledge Based Permanent Magnet Machine Design – Literature Survey
• Mathematical Field Computation as an Analytical Tool for Electric Machines
• Advanced Transverse Flux Permanent Magnet Linear Generator for Ocean Wave Energy Extraction

2005-2006 Projects

• Magnetic Equivalent Circuits Applied to Induction Machine Design
• Mathematical Field Computation as an Analytical Tool for Electric Machines
• An Extended Field Reconstruction Technique for Optimization of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine Drive Systems
• A Framework for the Analysis and Design of Vector Controllers for Induction Machines
• Hand-Cranked Electric Generator to Poper Remote Off-Grid Villages

2004-2005 Projects

• Autonomous Local Controls in a Distributed DC Power System
• Multi-Machine, Single Inverter Control of Induction Machines
• Design and Development of a Low Cost Hand-Cranked Electic Generator to Power Remote Off-Grid Villages
• Applying Conformal Mapping Theory to Design
• Implementation of Torque-Angle-Based Induction Motor Control Scheme