Books

This book is a must for all serious students, designers,
and users of brushless DC motors and drives. Certain
chapters can be used by those interested in hands-on
practical brushless motor design which include all of
the real world details required for the actual production
of a motor. Other chapters provide the in depth and
rigorous analysis of the magnetic and electric circuits
for a detailed academic understanding of brushless DC
motors.

The aim of this book is to help engineers understand,
design and evaluate the switched reluctance motor
(SRM) and its controls. The SRM is a relative newcomer
to the family of electric motors and is unusual both for
having salient teeth on rotor and stator and for its
complete dependence on its power electronic controls.
It is however remarkably versatile. Part of the design
problems is that the switched reluctance motor does not
conform to the established design techniques used for
classic DC and AC electric motors. The practical design
engineer is confronted with a machine that has no
steady state, has extreme localized saturation and
requires an unfamiliar power-electronic converter to
make it work at all. The geometry is beguilingly simple
and everything about the motor and its control seems at
first sight to be a gift to the production engineer. Yet the
attainment of good designs and satisfactory
performance is practically impossible by traditional
design methods.