Design and optimization of Synchronous Reluctance Machine for actuation of Electric Multi-purpose Vehicle Power Take-Off

While electric vehicle (EV) technology has been established in passenger vehicle sector, commercial multipurpose vehicle (MPV) penetration is strictly related to the niche end-markets, like medium-duty, short-haul and last mile applications. Some of the examples of short-haul applications are electric multipurpose vehicles (eMPV) like refuse, hook-loader or vacuum trucks. eMPVs, apart from electric traction, have to actuate additional body systems by the means of electric power take-off (ePTO). Taking into consideration that the machine needs to be affordable and reliable, synchronous reluctance machine (SyRM) has been selected for ePTO actuation. This paper will present SyRM parametrization, design constraints and optimization via improved differential evolution (DE) algorithm.