Mixed Eccentricity Detection by Identification of Harmonic Order of No-load Line-line Voltages in Multi-three-phase PMSMs

Permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) have many advantages such as high efficiency. As they are widely utilized for many applications, requirements of less noise and fewer vibrations increase. For a suppression control to the vibration caused by air-gap imbalances, using multi-three-phase PMSMs are suitable method because they can use common three phase inverters. We must detect the air-gap imbalances including static eccentricity and dynamic eccentricity to the suppression control. This paper proposes a method that separately detects static and dynamic eccentricity considering characteristics of the harmonic components of no-load line-line voltages. The method confirms its detection ability by a finite element analysis (FEA) model with eccentricity.