I. Introduction
The switched reluctance motor (SRM) considered in this paper presents an asymmetric pole geometry in the rotor with the purpose of improving the starting unidirectional torque in any rotor position. Despite the advantages achieved by such a design, the SRM presents an intrinsic nonnegligible torque ripple and force-density excitations, which are very troublesome because they produce vibration and audible noise. In a previous work, the torque ripple has been minimized while avoiding the degradations of the starting and mean torques. That has been accomplished by a multiobjective optimization technique coupled to finite-element (FE) analysis [1].