Influence of Nonlinearity and Driving Angles on the Functional and Performance Characteristics at SRMs

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the functional characteristics of a Switched Reluctance Motor (SRM) 6/4, for two different variants: a) idealized - with linear variation of inductance; real - with nonlinear variation of inductance. The analysis is performed in the PSIM environment, using the same control strategy, respectively conventional pulse current driving method, but for different values of the driving angle (at linear variant). Additionally, the performance of the SRM is analyzed in terms of energy efficiency by visualizing losses and temperature distribution within the structure, using the Motor-CAD software.