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I. Introduction&lt;br/&gt;Interior permanent magnet (IPM) machines are very attractive for the electric vehicle (EV) traction applications due to its excellent performance such as high torque density, and good flux-weakening capability. The multi-layered magnet rotors are more and more adopted in IPM machines, such as the 2008 Lexus LS600H, 2012 Nissan Leaf, 2016 BMW i3, and 2017 Prius which are delta-shape and 2U-shape magnet configuration. A multi-objective tradeoff design method is proposed in a multi-layered IPM machine for EV applications. The multi-objective including the cogging torque, average torque at different loads, torque ripple at different loads, iron loss, and magnet eddy-current loss. Firstly, the single-objective according to the variation of rotor flux-barriers are investigated individually. It is hard to tradeoff design between them, because there have seven targets. Then, a novelty method synthesize the torque on different loads, torque ripple on different loads, and total iron loss which can reduce the targets number from seven to three. The center of gravity of the three points are selected as the eventual angles of rotor flux-barriers. Finally, the multi-layered IPM machine is prototyped and experimented to verify the tradeoff design results.&lt;br/&gt;II. Main Body&lt;br/&gt;Fig. 1(a) shows the multi-layered magnet configurations. The rib1-rib5 are the bridges and ribs, &lt;i&gt;PM&lt;sub&gt;a&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;sub&gt;2 &lt;/sub&gt;- &lt;i&gt;PM&lt;sub&gt;a&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; are the angle of magnets, &lt;i&gt;b&lt;sub&gt;a&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;sub&gt;1 &lt;/sub&gt;- &lt;i&gt;b&lt;sub&gt;a&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;sub&gt;3 &lt;/sub&gt;are the angle of barriers. The magnets are inserted in the rotor barriers. Multi-layer magnet has adopted to enhancing saliency ratio for improving reluctance torque. The rated power of the machines is 48 kW, the continuous rated current (rated load) is 200 A, the maximum current (over load) is 400 A, and the maximum speed of the machines is 12000 r/min.&lt;br/&gt;The torque ripple is generated by the harmonic interaction of the stator magnetic force harmonic and the rotor magnetic field. It will also cause the vibration, and noise, affecting the comfort of passengers in the EV. In the design of IPM machines, it is desire to minimize the torque ripple. Not only just about the rated load, also about over load condition. The torque ripple at different loads according to the variation of ba3 and ba6 are shown in Fig. 2(a) and Fig. 2(b). The minimum torque ripple under rated load condition is located at point A. The minimum torque ripple under over load condition is located at point B. With different loads, the location of point A, and B are different. To considerate the overall torque ripple, synthesize the rated load, and the over load condition. In the design of IPM machines, it is desire to minimize the core loss and magnet eddy-current loss. The core loss and magnet eddy-current loss at 12000 r/min according to the variation of ba3 and ba6 are shown in Fig. 2(c) and Fig. 2(d). The minimum core loss is located at point C. The minimum magnet eddy-current loss is located at point D. Therefore, it is hard to achieve minimum core loss and magnet eddy-current loss simultaneously.&lt;br/&gt;In order to verify the results of the previous analysis, a prototype machine with multi-layered magnet rotor is manufactured. Fig. 1(b) shows photographs of the rotor. The FEA predicted and measured no-load phase EMF at 1500 r/min of multi-layered IPM machines are compared. It can be seen that the measured EMF waveforms consist of three steps corresponding to the pole-arc to pole-pitch ratios of three PM layers, which agrees well with the results of the FEA. The torque and efficiency are measured by a digital meter, the measured results are also agrees well with the results of the FEA.&lt;br/&gt;III. Conclusion&lt;br/&gt;This paper has presented a multi-objective tradeoff design method in a multi-layered IPM machine for EV traction applications. The novelty method synthesize the torque on different loads, torque ripple on different loads, and total iron loss, which can reduce the targets numbers. The selected of the center of gravity of the three targets can consider the global performances simultaneously, it is a reasonable tradeoff design. It is demonstrated that the effects of angles of rotor flux-barriers on torque ripple and core loss is significant. Therefore, rotor flux-barrier angles is an important issue in the design of multi-layered IPM machine. Finally, the prototype machine with multi-layered magnet rotor is fabricated and experimented.

**References:**

[1] Burak Ozpineci, “Oak Ridge National Laboratory Annual Progress Report for the Electric Drive Technologies Program,” Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL/SR-2016/640, Oct. 2016.&lt;br/&gt;[2] Rodrigo Silva, Armin Salimi1, Min Li, “Visualization and Analysis of Tradeoffs in Many-Objective Optimization: A Case Study on the Interior Permanent Magnet Motor Design, ” IEEE Trans. Magn., vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 8102404, Mar. 2016.

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I. Introduction Interior permanent magnet (IPM) machines are very attractive for the electric vehicle (EV) traction applications due to its excellent performance such as high torque density, and good flux-weakening capability. The multi-layered magnet rotors are more and more adopted in IPM machines, such as the 2008 Lexus LS600H, 2012 Nissan Leaf, 2016 BMW i3, and 2017 Prius which are delta-shape and 2U-shape magnet configuration. A multi-objective tradeoff design method is proposed in a multi-layered IPM machine for EV applications. The multi-objective including the cogging torque, average torque at different loads, torque ripple at different loads, iron loss, and magnet eddy-current loss. Firstly, the single-objective according to the variation of rotor flux-barriers are investigated individually. It is hard to tradeoff design between them, because there have seven targets. Then, a novelty method synthesize the torque on different loads, torque ripple on different loads, and total iron loss which can reduce the targets number from seven to three. The center of gravity of the three points are selected as the eventual angles of rotor flux-barriers. Finally, the multi-layered IPM machine is prototyped and experimented to verify the tradeoff design results. II. Main Body Fig. 1(a) shows the multi-layered magnet configurations. The rib1-rib5 are the bridges and ribs, PMa2 - PMa3 are the angle of magnets, ba1 - ba3 are the angle of barriers. The magnets are inserted in the rotor barriers. Multi-layer magnet has adopted to enhancing saliency ratio for improving reluctance torque. The rated power of the machines is 48 kW, the continuous rated current (rated load) is 200 A, the maximum current (over load) is 400 A, and the maximum speed of the machines is 12000 r/min. The torque ripple is generated by the harmonic interaction of the stator magnetic force harmonic and the rotor magnetic field. It will also cause the vibration, and noise, affecting the comfort of passengers in the EV. In the design of IPM machines, it is desire to minimize the torque ripple. Not only just about the rated load, also about over load condition. The torque ripple at different loads according to the variation of ba3 and ba6 are shown in Fig. 2(a) and Fig. 2(b). The minimum torque ripple under rated load condition is located at point A. The minimum torque ripple under over load condition is located at point B. With different loads, the location of point A, and B are different. To considerate the overall torque ripple, synthesize the rated load, and the over load condition. In the design of IPM machines, it is desire to minimize the core loss and magnet eddy-current loss. The core loss and magnet eddy-current loss at 12000 r/min according to the variation of ba3 and ba6 are shown in Fig. 2(c) and Fig. 2(d). The minimum core loss is located at point C. The minimum magnet eddy-current loss is located at point D. Therefore, it is hard to achieve minimum core loss and magnet eddy-current loss simultaneously. In order to verify the results of the previous analysis, a prototype machine with multi-layered magnet rotor is manufactured. Fig. 1(b) shows photographs of the rotor. The FEA predicted and measured no-load phase EMF at 1500 r/min of multi-layered IPM machines are compared. It can be seen that the measured EMF waveforms consist of three steps corresponding to the pole-arc to pole-pitch ratios of three PM layers, which agrees well with the results of the FEA. The torque and efficiency are measured by a digital meter, the measured results are also agrees well with the results of the FEA. III. Conclusion This paper has presented a multi-objective tradeoff design method in a multi-layered IPM machine for EV traction applications. The novelty method synthesize the torque on different loads, torque ripple on different loads, and total iron loss, which can reduce the targets numbers. The selected of the center of gravity of the three targets can consider the global performances simultaneously, it is a reasonable tradeoff design. It is demonstrated that the effects of angles of rotor flux-barriers on torque ripple and core loss is significant. Therefore, rotor flux-barrier angles is an important issue in the design of multi-layered IPM machine. Finally, the prototype machine with multi-layered magnet rotor is fabricated and experimented.

**References:**

[1] Burak Ozpineci, “Oak Ridge National Laboratory Annual Progress Report for the Electric Drive Technologies Program,” Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL/SR-2016/640, Oct. 2016. [2] Rodrigo Silva, Armin Salimi1, Min Li, “Visualization and Analysis of Tradeoffs in Many-Objective Optimization: A Case Study on the Interior Permanent Magnet Motor Design, ” IEEE Trans. Magn., vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 8102404, Mar. 2016.

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Introduction: Nowadays, with the rapid development of the computer science, numerical methods have been widely used during all the design stages of an electrical machine, such as the electromagnetic design, mechanical structure optimization, thermal estimation etc. We may select the main dimension of the motor, according to the existing electromagnetic design scheme of the induction motor with the same power level. This approach is suitable for the conventional induction motor design, because the main performance is highly determined by the main dimension [1]. However, different from traditional induction motors, the water friction losses of wet submersible motors are much greater than the wind mill losses of air-cooled induction motors. As shown in Fig 1, unlike traditional industrial motors, submersible motors have a larger ratio of diameter to shaft Length The water wear of the water-filled submersible motor accounts for a large proportion of the overall losses, so how to reduce the water wear of the submersible motor has become the key to improving the efficiency of the submersible motor. Many scholars have put forward the numerical calculation method of water wear of water-filled submersible motor, which are shown in Formula (1)-(4) in Figure 2 [2-3]. It can be seen that the main factors affecting the water wear of submersible motors are the surface roughness of the rotor, rotor speed, outer diameter of the rotor and motor shaft length. The literature [4] verified the influence of surface roughness on water wear. For a submersible motor with a given output power, the speed and surface roughness are constant. In this paper, the diameter and shaft length ratio of the motor are optimized to achieve the purpose of reducing the water wear in the design stage. Optimization Method: It can be known from the main relation formula of AC motor that the motor power with constant effective volume of rotor is also approximate. Therefore, keeping the effective volume of the rotor constant, reducing the outer diameter of the rotor and increasing the shaft length can ensure the output power and reduce the water wear of the motor. However, reducing the water wear through the above methods will also increase the electrical losses of the motor. In this paper, the electrical losses of a series of size motors are solved by electromagnetic simulation, and the curve of electrical losses as a function of the rotor outer diameter is fitted by the cubic spline interpolation. A new curve is obtained by adding the water wear and electrical losses of the motor, and the minimum of the curve is the optimal rotor outer diameter. Results: As shown at point M in Fig.2, when the rotor outer diameter is 0.183 m, the sum of electrical losses and water wear of the motor are the minimum. Compared with the loss when the outer diameter of the rotor is 0.225, the loss is reduced by 360 W. This method realizes the optimization of the diameter-axle-length ratio of the submersible motor and reduces the water wear of the submersible motor in the design stage. Detailed results and discussion will be given in the full text.

**References:**

[1] J. Pyrhonen, T. Jokinen, and V. Hrabovcova. Design of Rotating Electrical Machines, 2nd ed. Hoboken, NJ, USA; wiley, (2014). [2] S. Li and S. Liu, Pump Technol., vol. 33, pp. 21–25(1988). [3] H. Liu, M. Tan, and S. Yuan, Trans. Chin. Soc. Agricult. Eng., vol. 22, pp. 107–109(2006). [4] X. He , W. Jiao , C. Wang , et al. IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 105331-105341(2019).

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 Efficiency Improvement for Submersible Motors by Optimizing the Ratio of Diameter to Shaft Length

Nowadays some industrial applications require contactless motion transmission. The use of magnetic couplers is the most appropriate solution. The synchronous version of this solution, based in PM excitation, can be adopted in radial or axial topologies. In these topologies the most common shapes of permanent magnets are rectangular, sector and circular. The electromagnetic torque of a magnetic coupler, required to transmit motion, is usually calculated using numerical methods or even 3D analysis which takes into account all the geometric and physical effects. However, in the design process, you need a fast and precise model that does not require a lot of computation time. Firstly, a purely 3D analytical model for axial coupler (with sector shape magnets), based on magnetic scalar potential formulation, is developed. So, the magnetic field distribution in different regions (PM, air gap and iron disks) leads to solve the Laplace’s equation. In low-permeability sub domains, the fields due to the two PM rotors of the magnetic coupler are calculated separately. The solutions form of the partial differential equations expressed in cylindrical coordinates are determined using the method of separation of variables. Secondly, we extend the above developed model to calculate the field in the magnetic coupler with magnets of rectangular shape. So, it is necessary to divide the geometry of the rectangular magnet into a number of elementary geometric elements where each element is approximated by a sector-shaped one keeping the same volume of magnet. The approach adopted can be summarized as follows:- Subdivide each rectangular Magnet in N radial Elementary Blocks; - Approximate the elementary block by a sector shape with the same volume; - Compute the magnetic Field of each sector shape block with the developed model;- The total magnetic field, torque and axial force are computed by using the superposition principle. Hence, the total torque developed by the magnetic coupler is obtained by summation of all torques produced by the interaction of each block of the first inductor with all blocks of the second inductor. The results obtained by the proposed 3D analytical model are compared to those obtained by 3D finite elements and to those determined experimentally. A close agreement is noticed (relative error on the static torque don’t exceed 2 %) between the measured and the predicted torques, which demonstrates the validity of the proposed model. The low computing time of the developed model provides an efficient and quick tool for assessing the influence of the geometrical and physical parameters of a magnetic coupler as a part of a design optimization process.

**References:**

[1] L. Belguerras and L. Hadjout, "Study of HTS Magnetic Coupler Using Analytical and Numerical Computations" IEEE Trans. Applied Superconductivity, Vol. 24, No. 6, December 2014 [2] Jian Wang and all, "A General Analytical Model of Permanent Magnet Eddy Current Couplings", IEEE Trans. Magn, Vol. 50, No. 1, January 2014. [3] Hyeon-Jae, Shin and all, "Design and Analysis of Axial Permanent Magnet Couplings Based on 3D FEM" IEEE Trans. Magn, Vol. 49, No. 7, JULY 2013. [4] T. Lubin ,S. Mezani and A. Rezzoug, "Simple analytical expressions for the force and torque of axial magnetic couplings". IEEE Trans. on Energy Conversion, volume 27, N°2, pp. 536-546, 11 pages, Juin 2012.

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 Improved 3D Electromagnetic Analytical Model of an Axial Flux Magnetic Coupling with Rectangular Shaped Permanent Magnets

I.Introduction Hybrid magnetic bearings (HMBs) have several merits, such as no friction and abrasions, no lubrication and no sealing, high speed, high precision and long life. In HMBs, the permanent magnet is adopted to generate bias flux for the low power consumption and small volume. However, in existing HMBs, several suspension poles are designed in the same stator core. The suspension force is generated by the interaction of the bias flux and control flux. The HMB of this structure realizes the radial two-degree-of-freedom (2-DOF) suspension in one stator core, especially when the rotor is deviated from unbalance position, the suspension force coupling in the X-Y direction is severe and the control is complicated. To compensate for this deficiency, a novel DC HMB with crossed poles is studied. The suspension poles in the X and Y direction are designed different stator cores. Therefore, it can solve the radial 2-DOF coupling of traditional four-pole HMBs and simplify the control. A simple mathematical models are presented, which can make the maximum magnetic levitation force in the X and Y directions. The nonlinearity of suspension forces and the coupling of electromagnetic among this four-pole magnetic bearing are analyzed by MagNet 3D. The finite element simulation is carried out to verify the theoretical analysis. II.Configuration and Suspension Principle The configuration and magnetic circuit of a novel DC HMB with crossed poles are presented in Fig. 1. As shown in Fig. 1(a), the main parts of this HMB are two slice stators, namely X-stator and Y-stator, axial magnetized permanent magnets and two slice rotor irons. Two symmetrical suspension poles in the X direction are evenly distributed along the circumference of X-stator, and the suspension poles in the Y direction are crossed in the Y-stator. Radial control windings are wound on each stator. The magnetic circuit of radial suspension control flux and static bias flux is represented in Fig. 2(b). The solid lines denote the static bias flux generated by the permanent magnets. The dotted lines describe the radial suspension control flux generated by radial control current. If the rotor irons are displaced from the balance position in the radial position by the radial disturbances, the fluxes between the magnetic flux and the bias flux are overlapped, which results in force to bring the rotor to the radial balance position. According to the equivalent magnetic circuit method, the radial suspension forces in the X and the Y directions are deduced as follows: Fj=Fpm+kij×ij(1) where the subscript “j” denotes x and y. Fpm is the magnetic attraction force produced by the bias flux at the equilibrium position. kij is the radial force-current stiffness. Fpm and kij can be given as: Fpm=-S×μ0×Fm×Fm÷g3 Kij=2S×μ0×Fm×N÷g2(2) where Fm is the magnetomotive force. μ0 is vacuum permeability. S is radial magnetic pole area. g is radial air gap length. N is number of radial control coils. III.Models, Design and Analysis Based on above-mentioned analysis, electromagnetic performance of the presented HMB is manufactured by the MagNet software. The prototype is simulated to analyze the electromagnetic performance by the three-dimensional finite element method, and the different simulation cases are given in Fig. 2. Fig. 2(a) shows the distribution of the bias flux. The radial air-gap magnetic flux density of each pole is 0.6T symmetrically. In Fig. 2(b), the radial control winding in the X direction is electrified with 3A current, and the control flux density distribution in the X direction is generated. It can be seen from Fig. 2(c) that there is an increase of air-gap flux in the positive X direction and a decrease in the negative X direction by the superposition of the control flux in the X direction and bias flux. Therefore, only the suspension force in the X direction is produced. To verify the correctness of the mathematical models, the control current is applied to generate radial suspension force only in the positive X direction. The relationships between the suspension force and control current are shown in Fig. 2(d). The currents change from 0 to 3 A. The maximum suspension force reaches 260 N. It can be seen that the finite element simulation results are in good agreement with the theoretical values, and there is a linear force-current relationships. IV. Conclusion This paper aims to construct a novel DC HMB with crossed poles to simplify the structure, obtain the maximum bearing capacity and solve the radial two-degree-of-freedom coupling. The simulation results have shown that the suspension forces produced by the crossed poles have better linearity around the balance position and no movement. There is no coupling of two directions for the independent magnetic circuit. The research results verify the correctness of magnetic circuit, suspension mechanism and mathematical model.

**References:**

 [1]D. Ning, H. Kai, and J. Long, "Review on High Speed Permanent Magnet Machines Including Design and Analysis Technologies," in Proceedings of the CSEE, vol. 34, no. 27, pp. 4640-4653, Sep, 2014. [2]J. Ju, H. Zhu and C. Zhao, "Radial Force-Current Characteristic Analysis of Three-Pole Radial-Axial HMB," 2016 IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference (VPPC), Hangzhou, 2016, pp. 1-6.

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Fig. 2. Flux distribution and the force-current relationships. (a) Bias flux. (b) Control flux. (c) Resultant flux. (d) Force-current relationship.

 Modeling and Electromagnetic Performance Analysis of the Novel DC Hybrid Magnetic Bearing with Crossed Poles

The traditional finite element model of permanent magnet synchronous generator（PMSG） needs nonlinear iteration for each grid, and time-consuming. Besides, the performance of various components of the voltage regulator controller (VRC) will be affected by the operating environment. The traditional component library cannot meet the accurate digital twin effect. Taking an emergency power supply system for an unmanned aerial vehicle as an example, this paper uses the device-level modeling method to build a digital twin simulation model (DTSM) of a PMSG and its AC-DC regulated power supply system, which simulation speed can guarantee real-time output results in synchronization with the experiment, and has an agile digital twin effect. Finally, the calculated results are compared with the experimental values to verify the accuracy of the proposed digital twin device-level model, which is of great significance to the combined design of PMSGs and VRCs. Index Terms：Permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG); Digital twin ;Voltage regulator controller. I. Introduction The performance of permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) is closely related to its control method and load characteristics. When the AC-DC step-down chopper voltage stabilization control strategy is adopted, it can ensure the output of stable DC power while reducing the three-phase line current of the generator, reducing the motor winding loss greatly, and optimizing the matching design of the generator and the power converter. The power stabilization system is stable and efficient. Therefore, the research of PMSG and its AC-DC conversion and voltage stabilization system (VSS) simulation can promote the development of PMSG and VSS technology, improve system design accuracy effectively, and realize the perfect match to improve the stability and reliability of the VSS [1][2][3][4]. II. Composition of VSS Circuit After studying the load characteristics and actual working environment, the power supply system adopts a PMSG combined with a three-phase uncontrolled rectifier bridge and a BUCK converter. The actual power supply system consists of PMSG, three-phase uncontrolled bridge rectifier circuit, power regulator circuit, filter circuit, feedback circuit, control circuit, drive circuit and auxiliary power supply circuit. III. Digital Twin Device-Level Simulation Modeling In order to improve the simulation speed of the simulation model and achieve a fast digital twin effect, this paper uses the ECE reduced-order model extraction method to convert the generator finite element model into a data matrix model, and establishes the PWM main control chip SG1525 and the device-level modeling method. The digital twin simulation model (DTSM) of the AC-DC VSS of the PMSG is built as shown in Fig.1. The simulation speed can ensure the real-time output results in synchronization with the experiment results, and realize the fast and accurate digital twin effect. IV. Experimental Verification The PMSG and its VSS were tested on a dedicated test bench, which is shown in Fi.g. 2. The oscilloscope is used to display the output DC voltage waveform in real time, and the DTSM is run on the computer at the same time. The simulation data is highly consistent with the measured data. V. Conclusion This paper proposed a high-precision DTSM based on the actual prototype of an emergency power supply system for an unmanned aerial vehicle. Firstly, the ECE reduced-order mathematical model is extracted by the alternating-direct-axis periodic current scanning method, which accelerates the simulation speed greatly. Secondly, according to the actual circuit structure of the emergency voltage stabilization control power converter, a DTSM of the entire VSS circuit is built. Finally, the accuracy of the DTSM is verified by experiments.The reduced-order model extraction and device-level modeling techniques used in this paper are in line with the development trend of digital twin technology. The research results can provide a reference for the design of PMSG and the optimal matching design of VSS.

**References:**

[1] A. Rassõlkin, V. Rjabtšikov and T. Vaimann. "Digital twin of an electrical motor based on empirical performance model,"2020 XI International Conference on Electrical Power Drive Systems (ICEPDS), Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2020. [2] N. Khaled , B. Pattel and A. Siddiqui. “Digital twin development and cloud deployment for a DC motor control embedded system”, 2020. [3] R. Goraj. “Digital twin of the rotor-shaft of a lightweight electric motor during aerobatics loads”, Aircraft engineering and aerospace technology, 2020. [4] N. Khaled , B. Pattel and A. Siddiqui. “Digital twin development for an inverter circuit for motor drive systems”, Digital Twin Development and Deployment on the Cloud, PP. 163-201, 2020.

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 Quickly and High-Precision Digital Twin Device-Level Simulation Modeling of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator and Voltage Stabilizing System

I. Introduction Recently, permanent magnet (PM) motors have been widely applied in various application fields, such as electric vehicles, aerospace, and household appliances, owing to the inherent advantages of high torque density, high energy efficiency, and compact structure. With the increasingly severe and diversified application scenarios of PM motors, higher and more complicated requirements are raised for optimization design. It is noted that the motor system is actually a multi-disciplinary, nonlinear, strong coupled system, hence the objectives are often in conflict with each other in the design process. In previous studies, multi-objective optimization design is considered as an effective solution for obtaining high-performance PM motors, and some optimization methods are often utilized, such as a multi-objective genetic algorithm (MOGA) [1]. However, the traditional optimization method is a deterministic design approach and has not investigated the uncertainties in engineering manufacturing, such as material diversity, manufacturing error, and assembly inaccuracy. These will result in design parameter fluctuation affecting the reliability and quality of the machine. To deal with this problem, the robust optimization design approach is proposed and gradually becomes a hotspot in machine design research orientation. Generally, the design for the six sigma (DFSS) technique is an effective optimization approach, which is often adopted to provide direct and reliable evaluation for the assessment of robustness. In [2], a soft magnetic composite (SMC) motor is optimized based on DFSS, which takes robustness into consideration in not only motor but also integrated control schemes. In [3], the robust design of a surface-mounted permanent magnet (SPM) motor is realized by the particle swarm optimization (PSO) instead of genetic algorithm (GA) due to long computational time of DFSS. Yet, it is noted that in the DFSS method, the mean and variance of the optimization objectives should be optimized at the same time, which greatly improves the dimension and complexity of the motor optimization model. Thus, for the machine robust design, ensuring the optimization convergency is a big challenge. It is necessary to propose an optimization method to improve the efficiency and accuracy of DFSS, effectively achieving machine robust design. To address this problem, this paper proposes an efficient machine robust design approach, where the dimension of the robust optimization model can be reduced according to the assessment of the relationship between objectives. To better clarify the proposed method, an interior PM machine with a multi-layer flux barrier is investigated as a design example. By implementing the proposed optimization method, it can be found that the performance and design reliability of the machine can be effectively improved. II. Proposed optimization method As is shown in Fig. 1, the design concept from the traditional deterministic optimization to robust design optimization is described for better presentation. Fig. 2(a) gives the configuration of the design example, an interior PM motor with a multi-layer flux barrier. It can be seen that the motor adopts the 36/8 slot/pole combination and NdFeB-PM is embedded in the middle of each arc-shaped magnetic barrier. Fig. 1(b) shows the parameter model of the motor and structural parameters for optimization is marked. Based on the parametric model, the process of robust optimization is given as the flowchart in Fig. 3. Firstly, in order to reduce the computation of FEA, Latin hypercube sampling (LHS) was utilized to approximate random sampling from multivariate parameter distributions. Then, parameters are divided into two layers by the result of sensitivity analysis. In Layer 1, the parameters with low sensitivity are optimized for objectives that have relatively strong relevance with them by parameter sweeping. In addition, robust factors of the performance fluctuation caused by sensitive parameters are considered in Layer 2. And then, a non-parametric measure of conflict method is adopted for objective reduction, then, the objectives with high conflict have remained for multi-objective optimization. Finally, the filtered objectives are optimized by NSGA-II (Non-Dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm-II). III. Analysis and results Based on the robust optimization method proposed above, the analysis results are obtained. According to spearman's rank correlation coefficient, five objectives with relatively high assessed conflict value are remained in the process of multi-objective optimization, and the result is shown in Fig. 4 (a). In addition, the solution set corresponding to all objectives based on parameters determined above is shown in Fig. 4 (b). The torque and torque ripple of the proposed interior PM motor are calculated and compared in Fig. 5 (a), it can be seen that the average torque has been improved from 23.56 Nm to 25.95 Nm, while the torque ripple decreases from 10.14% to 9.50%. In order to evaluate the robust performance, 1000 points are sampled separately around initial and optimized parameters by Monte Carlo analysis method, as is shown in Fig. 5 (b), the variance μ of the distribution is decreased from 0.43 Nm to 0.27 Nm. Additionally, the improvement of core loss performance is given in Fig. 6. In conclusion, it can be seen that deterministic and robust performances of the proposed motor are improved simultaneously. More detailed design process description and experimental verification will be given in the full paper.

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[1] X. Zhu, W. Wu, L. Quan, Z. Xiang, and W. Gu, “Design and Multi-objective Stratified Optimization of a Less-rare-earth Hybrid Permanent Magnets Motor with High Torque Density and Low Cost,” IEEE Trans. Energy Convers., vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 1178-1189, Sept. 2019. [2] G. Lei, T. Wang, J. Zhu, Y. Guo and S. Wang, "System-Level Design Optimization Method for Electrical Drive Systems—Robust Approach," IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., vol. 62, no. 8, pp. 4702-4713, Aug. 2015. [3] V. Rafiee and J. Faiz, "Robust Design of an Outer Rotor Permanent Magnet Motor Through Six-Sigma Methodology Using Response Surface Surrogate Model," IEEE Trans. Magn., vol. 55, no. 10, pp. 1-10, Oct. 2019, Art no. 8107110.

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 Robust Multi-Objective Optimization Design of Permanent Magnet Motors Based on Objective-Dimension-Reduced Method

I. Introduction In recent years, permanent magnet brushless machines (PMBL) have been widely applied in various applications thanks to the merits of high efficiency, high power density, and free maintenance. For this type of machine, PMs are crucial components, whose quality has a significant influence on motor performance. However, there are many uncertainty factors in the PM material characteristic and manufacturing, which often lead to machine performance deviate from the design results. For example, for PM magnetic characteristics, there exists inconsistency between different batches of PM on magnetization magnitude and direction, which leads to PMs remanence and magnetization angle slightly deviate from a given reference. On the other hand, since some PM material machining precision is relatively lower, there is often a discrepancy between the actual and nominal size. During the assembly, this discrepancy might cause a gap between PM and core, which will seriously influence machine performance. Thus, how to design PMBL machines in a robust way to resist PM material uncertainty factor has attracted much attention. To address this problem, researchers have paid plenty of effort, proposing multiple optimization design methods. In reference [1], a robust optimization method is proposed for transverse flux PM motor, in which the influence of inconsistency of magnetic characteristics of PM material is considered. Then, in order to reduce the influence of PM machining error during the motor manufacturing process, a robust optimization method is utilized for a novel double-sides air-core PM linear synchronous motor. [2]. Besides, many engineering probability uncertainty analysis methods are employed to improve PM machine design robustness.[3] Yet, it is noted that these researches generally treated uncertainties as single random variables, lacking the consideration about the specific influence of uncertainties on PM material. In this paper, a robust optimization method is proposed to improve PMBL machine design reliability, where PM material uncertainty factors are sufficiently considered. To better clarify the optimization method, a double PM brushless machine (DPMBL) is investigated as a design example, where NdFeB-PM and ferrite-PM are adopted together to improve machine torque density and reduce the Rare-earth PM usage. The detailed design process and optimized results are presented specifically. By implementing the proposed optimization method, it can be found that the performance and design reliability of the DPMBL machine can be improved. II. Design case and design method Fig.1(a) gives the configuration of the investigated DPMBL machine. It can be seen that the machine adopts a 12/10 slot/pole combination, where two types of permanent, NdFeB and ferrite, are parallelly arranged in the rotor. Fig 1(b) shows the parametric rotor model, where the corresponding design variables are marked out. It is noted that there are two kinds of uncertainty factors in the PM material. The first one is the ferrite width, which might lead to a gap between steel and PM. The second one is the material characteristic of ferrite and NdFeB, including remeance and magnetization direction. Fig.2 describes the proposed robust optimization design process, where PM material uncertainty factors are treated as disturbance parameters. In the implement, the NdFeB and ferrite dimensions are set as design parameters, and the ferrite width, the width of the gap between ferrite and steel, the NdFeB and ferrite remeance, and magnetization direction are regarded as disturbance parameters. Based on multi-objective optimization and uncertainty analysis, the proposed approach conducts the optimization of the design parameters for machine performance enhancement. III. Results After optimization, the design scheme of the DPMBL machine is obtained. Fig 3 gives a comparison of output torque between before and after optimization. It can be seen that in the case of PM without any uncertainty factor, the average torque obtains an improvement from 35.87Nm to 38.21Nm and the torque ripple decreases from 11.26% to 8.78%. As the same PM uncertainty factor is applied to these two machines, the torque quality of the initial machine suffers an obvious decline while the optimized machine can maintain stability. To better validate the effectiveness of the optimization method, Fig 3(b) and Fig.3(c) give the torque and torque ripple distribution of a batch of machines with random PM uncertainty factors. It can be observed that the optimized machine possesses more concentrated performance. In conclusion, the proposed optimization method can resist the PM uncertainty factor and benefit the manufacturing of good quality PMBL machines. More detailed design process descriptions and experimental validation will be presented in the full paper.

**References:**

[1] G. Lei, T. Wang and J. Zhu, "System-Level Design Optimization Method for Electrical Drive Systems—Robust Approach," IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., vol. 62, no. 8, pp. 4702-4713, Aug. 2015. [2] F. Dong, J. Zhao and J. Zhao, "Robust Optimization of PMLSM Based on a New Filled Function Algorithm with a Sigma Level Stability Convergence Criterion," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, doi: 10.1109/TII.2020.3020070. [3] B. Ma, J. Zheng and J. Zhu "Robust Design Optimization of Electrical Machines Considering Hybrid Random and Interval Uncertainties," IEEE Trans. Energy Convers, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 1815-1824, Dec. 2020.

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 Robust optimization design for PMBL machine considering permanent magnet material uncertainties

I.INTRODUCTION PM machines have obtained wide applications in the last several decades because of the high efficiency, high torque and high power density. Most PM machines adopt rare-earth PMs as magnetic potential source for high performance. However, due to the unstable supply of rare-earth PMs, the price of PMs is becoming a major issue. Therefore, many machines with less or no PM have been developed in the last a couple of years. Although less or no PM machines such as hybrid PM motors and synchronous reluctance motors can reduce the usage of PMs significantly, they still suffer from poor torque density. Adopting consequent-pole(CP) structure in PM machines is another solution to save PMs[1]-[3]. However, the rotors in CP motors are difficult to design and there is seldom design experience for reference. Topology optimization(TO) is an approach for shape optimization. It searches optimal shape by making free modifications in the distribution of material, and has potentialities to provide novel design. In this paper, The TO method based on ON/OFF method and immune algorithm (IA) was applied on the rotor core of a consequent-pole permanent magnet synchronous motor (CP-PMSM) to improve its torque quality. II.STRUCTURE AND OPERATION PRINCIPLE OF CP-PMSMS Fig.1(a) shows the 1/4 models of PMSMs with surface-mounted PM(SPM) and CP. For a CP-PMSM, the magnetic direction of all the PMs are the same, and each PM pole is set between two silicon steel poles. The magnetic circuits of two motors are established to explain the working principle of the CP motor. Then, torque waveforms are simulated for comparison. The average torque of SPM motor and CP motor are 3.25N and 2.09N, respectively. The average thrust will not reduce half with the missing of half PM poles, which means the PM has higher utilization in the CP-PMSM. Additionally, the motors still have potential to be optimized for better torque quality. III.TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION BASED ON ON/OFF METHOD AND IMMUNE ALGORITHMS The authors have proposed a TO method based on ON/OFF method with IA [4]. The ON/OFF method divides the search space into numerous finite element meshes to represent material distribution, each finite element mesh is associated with a binary value, indicating either the presence or absence of material. The area to be optimized is the search space of ON/OFF method. Consequently, the optimized shape could be represented by the presence (silicon steel) or absence (air) of silicon steel material. IA is used to search the optimal shape by changing the material distribution in the meshes. The TO procedures of ON/OFF method based on IA can be summarized as follows:1)Generate initial antibodies of Npop candidate solutions, create random initial shapes;2)Smoothen surface and eliminate holes by filter process;3)Evaluate the objective function for each antibody, list them up from high value to low value;4)Generate clones for each antibody, the antibodies with high evaluation function will be cloned more to generate more offspring;5)Apply affinity maturation (small modifications) on material surface to the clones;6)Smoothen surface and eliminate holes by filter process;7)Evaluate each clone and list them up, if one clone is better than its parent, it will replace its parent;8)Keep Ns%(0＜Ns＜1) clones with high ranking and weed others out. Then add randomly generated antibodies as step 1-2 to keep the population size constant;9) Back to step 4 until the optimization targets are met. IV.OPTIMIZATION RESULT OF THE CP-PMSM The rotor core is chosen to be the search space of ON/OFF method. The search space is defined in 0°–45°range, the optimized shape of this range is reversing copied to 45°–90°range, so as to make the rotor symmetrical and reduce computation cost. Both the average torque and torque ripple were considered in the evaluation function in optimization. Fig.1(b) shows the evolution of the rotor topologies during optimization. At first, the profile of silicon steel poles emerged in the surface of rotor core, and there were many big holes inside the rotor. Then, the holes inside the core gradually decreased and became smaller, and the shape of the silicon steel poles became more obvious. Finally, the holes inside the rotor core almost disappeared, and the silicon steel poles gradually became a‘W’shape. Torque characteristics before and after optimization are compared in Fig.2. The components of output torque, i.e., electromagnetic torque and cogging torque, are simulated for analysis. It can be found that the output torque of the CP-PMSM is greatly improved after optimization, the average torque is increased from 2.09N to 2.32N, and the torque ripple is reduced from 126.6% to 13.7%. Moreover, the improvement of output torque is contributed by both the improvement of cogging torque and electromagnetic torque. In the future, we plan to extend this TO method to PM poles and stator core so as realize comprehensive TO.

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[1]S. U. Chung, J. W. Kim, and Y. D. Chun,“Fractional slot concentrated winding PMSM with consequent pole rotor for a low-speed direct drive: reduction of rare earth permanent magnet,”IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Vol.30, No.1, pp. 103–109, Mar. 2015. [2]L. Wei and T. Nakamura, "Optimization Design of a Dual-Stator Switched Flux Consequent Pole Permanent Magnet Machine With Unequal Length Teeth," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 1-5, Feb. 2020. [3]S. Teymoori, A. Rahideh, and H. Moayed-Jahromi,“2-D analytical magnetic field prediction for consequent-pole permanent magnet synchronous machines,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol.6, No.6, pp. 1–14, Jun.2016. [4]K. Watanabe, T. Suga and S. Kitabatake, "Topology Optimization Based on the ON/OFF Method for Synchronous Motor," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 54, No. 3, pp. 1-4, March 2018.

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Fig. 1.(a) Comparison of surface-mounted PM motor and consequent-pole motor. In consequent-pole motor, each PM pole is set between two silicon steel poles, so as to save PM volume. (b)Variation of rotor topologies during evolution(Evolutions takes 15 hours in total). The rotor shape varies sharply in the beginning generations and gradually tends to be fixed in a 'W' shape.

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Fig. 2.(a)Torque characteristics before optimization. (b)Torque characteristics after optimization. It can be found the improvement of output torque is contributed by both the improvement of cogging torque and electromagnetic torque

 Topology Optimization of Consequent-Pole PMSM Using ON/OFF Method

I. Introduction Permanent magnet (PM) machines have been extensively investigated and employed in various industrial applications due to their inherit merits of high torque and high efficiency. Nevertheless, because of the ever-increasing price and unstable supply, the rare-earth material cost is a major concern [1]. In order to address above-mentioned issue, the electrical machines with no or less rare-earth PM material are widely developed [1]. Because half of magnetic poles are replaced by iron core, the consequent-pole PM (CPM) machines [2]-[13] exhibit higher PM utilization ratio and comparable torque capability compared with conventional surfaced-mounted PM (SPM) structures. Therefore, various CPM machines in terms of surface-inset [2] [3], interior [4]-[7] and hybrid pole [8]-[10] configurations are reported and extensively investigated, which shows that the CPM design exhibits better field-weakening capability, higher PM utilization ratio, similar torque capability and efficiency compared with SPM machines. Recently, the field modulation effect (FME) concept has been extended to the CPM machines [11]-[13]. It can be found that the CPM machines exhibit more air-gap field harmonics responsible for torque generation compared with the SPM counterparts [11]-[13], which is mainly due to its doubly salient structure, unipolar PM magneto-motive force (MMF) distribution. The split ratio is a key design parameter of the PM machines, which significantly reflects the torque capability, iron loss, efficiency and thermal behavior [14]. However, the influences of split ratio on the FMEs in CPM machines remain unreported hitherto. Therefore, in order to provide an in-depth understanding of their torque production mechanism, the influence split ratio on FME of the CPM machines is investigated in this paper. II. Machine Topology and Preliminary Electromagnetic Performance The topology of the proposed CPM with 12-stator-slot/14-rotor-pole is illustrated in Fig. 1(a). The fractional slot concentrated windings are adopted to reduce the end winding length and improve the efficiency. The split ratio γ can be defined as γ=rsi/rso (1) where rsi and rso are the stator inner and outer diameters, respectively. The average torque variations of the CPM machine with different split ratios are illustrated in Fig. 1(b). It can be seen that the average torque is rises first, and then drops steadily when split ratio exceeds 0.55, which is mainly due to the increased first and then decreased electrical load. In order to quantify the torque contributions of the various working harmonics, the Maxwell stress tensor method is employed. The electromagnetic torque can be expressed as Τe=∑(πlstkrg2/μ0)BrkBtkcos[θrk(t)-θtk(t)]=∑Tk(t) (2) where rg is the air-gap radius. lstk is the active stack length. Tk is the electromagnetic torque generated by the kth harmonics of radial and tangential air-gap flux densities, respectively. Thus, the contributions of the kth field harmonics to the total electromagnetic torque can be separated when the kth radial and tangential air-gap field harmonics are obtained. The average torque proportion can be defined as λ=(Tk/Te)×100% (3) The torque contributions of FME can be expressed as λFME=(1-TZr/Te)×100% (4) where TZr is the average torque generated by Zr order air-gap field harmonic. The corresponding torque proportions of the various air-gap flux density harmonics can be obtained (2)-(4), as shown in Figs. 2(c) and (d). Due to the slightly increased air-gap flux density amplitudes, the torque proportions of 5th, 19th and 21th are increased with split ratio, as shown in Fig. 2(c). Similarly, the torque proportion of 7th harmonic is decreased with split ratio, which is mainly due to its decreased 7th air-gap flux density amplitude. The corresponding torque proportion of FME can be obtained by (4), as shown in Fig. 1(e). Because of the decreased amplitude and torque proportion of the Zr order air-gap flux density, the torque proportion of FME is increased with split ratio, which indicates that the more pronounced FME can be obtained in relatively higher split ratio. III. Experimental Validation In order verify the FE simulation, a 12-slot/14-pole CPM machine prototype is manufactured, as shown in Figs 2. The test results are illustrated in Figs. 2(c) and (d), respectively. It can be seen that the measured back-EMF values are slightly lower than FE predictions, as shown in Fig. 2(d), which is mainly due to the fact that the end-winding effect and mechanical tolerance are not considered in FE analysis. The detailed analysis and experimental measurements will be presented in the full paper.

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[1] H. Tahanian, M. Aliahmadi and J. Faiz, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 56, Art. no. 900120, (2020) [2] S. U. Chung, S. H. Moon and D. J. Kim, IEEE Transactions on industrial Electronics, Vol. 63, p.302-309, (2016) [3] J, Li, K. Wang and F. Li, IEEE Transactions on industrial Electronics, Vol. 66, p.1736-1747, (2019) [4] M. Onsal, B. Cumhur and Y. Demir, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 54, Art. no. 8206005, (2018) [5] W. Liu and T. A. Lipo, IEEE Transactions on Industry Application, Vol. 54, p.5918-5929, (2018) [6] X. Ren, D. Li and R. Qu, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Vol. 33, p.2112-2121, (2018) [7] J. Li, K. Wang and H. Zhang, IEEE Transactions on industrial Electronics, Vol. 67, p.3374-3385, (2020) [8] K. Wang, J. Li and S. S. Zhu, IEEE Transactions on industrial Electronics, Vol. 66, p.6811-6823, (2019) [9] G. Dajaku, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 56, Art. no. 8200409, (2020) [10] G. Xu, W. Zhao and G. Liu, IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, accepted, (2020) [11] Y. Li, H. Yang and H. Lin, in Proc. XIII International Conference Electrical Macine (ICEM), pp.65-71, (2018) [12] D. Jang and J. Chang, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Vol. 34, p.2019-2028, (2019) [13] Y. Li, H. Yang and H. Lin, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, accepted, (2020) [14] Y. Shen and Z. Q. Zhu, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 47, p.4187-4190, (2011)

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Fig. 1. (a) Configuration of 12-stator-slot/14-pole CPM. Torque characteristics of the CPM machine with different split ratio. (b) Average torque. Torque proportions of the various working harmonics (c) field modulated harmonics, (d) 7th, (d) FME.

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Fig. 2. 12-slot/14-pole CPM machine prototype and measured results. (a) Stator. (b) Rotor. (c) Measured open-circuit back-EMFs. (d) Comparison of the measured and FE predicted open-circuit fundamental amplitudes of back-EMFs.

 Influence of Split Ratio on Field Modulation Effect in Consequent-Pole Permanent Magnet Machine

This work focuses on the analysis of rotor geometry parameters and added flux barriers design to improve the anti-demagnetization capability of fractional slot concentrated windings interior permanent magnet motor (IPM) for electric vehicle (EV) traction applications. A 2.5kW V-shape IPM motor (12 slots and 8 poles) is designed to achieve high torque density and wide constant power speed range (CPSR), which is selected to study in this paper. The influence of rotor geometry parameters variation (such as the magnet position and angle, the width and thickness of magnet) on the relation of characteristic current (Ich) and demagnetization in wide-speed range operation is firstly investigated under high-temperature and high current density operation. Then, the impact of added flux barriers design on the anti-demagnetization capability of the IPM motor is evaluated. The analysis results show that the increase of magnet angle of V-shape IPM would improve the anti-demagnetization capability but would reduce Ich; meanwhile, the increase of magnet thickness would increase Ich and simultaneously improve the anti-demagnetization capability. In addition, the added flux barriers design significantly affects the anti-demagnetization capability of the V-shape IPM motor. Finally, a unique multi-objective genetic algorithm is applied for the rotor geometry optimization of the V-shape IPM motor to achieve good anti-demagnetization capability, excellent CPSR, and high efficiency. Finite element analysis (FEA) is used for evaluation, and experiments are conducted to validate the analysis. I.Introduction In order to achieve the power and torque requirements of an EV motor, magnetic loading and electrical loading need to be improved. However, due to the saturation of the electrical steel sheet, a high current density design is unavoidable. In a high current operating environment, due to the high temperatures and strong armature magnetic field presented in the motor, the magnetic field provided by the magnet is usually reduced. Under these conditions, the magnet can suffer from irreversible demagnetization. For this reason, a higher current will be required to achieve the originally expected performance. To avoid this type of problem is very important to design a motor with high resistance to demagnetization for the safety and reliability of the product. II.Target Models and Analysis Method A 2.5 kW fractional slot concentrated windings V-shape IPM motor with 12 slots and 8 poles is applied to study here. The rotor configuration of V-shape IPM with the design parameters is shown in Fig. 1(a) and the design of different flux barriers is presented in Fig. 1(b). Finite element analysis (FEA) is utilized to comprehensively evaluate the impact of rotor geometry parameters variation and design characteristic of added flux barriers on the relation of characteristic current (Ich) and the anti-demagnetization capability of the V-shape IPM motor. The details will be reported in the full paper. III.Analysis Results and Experiments Fig. 2 shows the comparison of magnetic flux density distribution on PM without and with added flux barriers design during no-load and load conditions. It can be seen that the added flux barriers design significantly affects the demagnetization risk on PM. Fig. 3 presents the comparison of back EMF of V-shape IPM motor without and with the added flux barriers design before and after demagnetization. The result shows that the added flux barriers design significantly reduces the demagnetization risk on PM of V-shape IPM motor. Fig. 4(a) shows the rotor configuration after optimized of the V-shape IPM motor which is made as a prototype for validating the analyses. Fig. 4(b) shows the comparison of back EMF of V-shape IPM motor between the simulation and experiment at 1500 rpm speed. The phase voltage of back EMF is 13.45 V in the simulation, thus the peak-to-peak of back EMF is 23.3 V; meanwhile, the measured back EMF is 24.8 V. The error between the simulation and experiment is only 6%, thus the analysis results are reliable. Fig. 5(a) shows the torque and power versus speed curves of the V-shape IPM motor. The output torque of the motor is 9.17 Nm for simulation and 8.9 Nm for the experiment, respectively. Fig. 5(b) presents the comparison of back EMF of IPM motor before and after demagnetization in the experiment. The back EMF of the motor after fully demagnetized magnets only has an error of 2%. The accuracy of the simulation is thus verified by the experiment results. Detail analysis and experiment will be reported in the full paper. IV.Conclusion This digest has analyzed the impact of rotor geometry parameters variation and design characteristic of added flux barriers on the performance and the anti-demagnetization capability of fractional slot concentrated windings V-shape IPM motor. The added flux barriers design significantly affects the performance and anti-demagnetization capability of the V-shape IPM motor. The detail analysis and experimental results will be reported in the full paper.

**References:**

[1] H. Chen, R. Qu, J. Li and D. Li, "Demagnetization Performance of a 7 MW Interior Permanent Magnet Wind Generator With Fractional-Slot Concentrated Windings," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 51, no. 11, pp. 1-4, Nov. 2015. [2] K. Imamura, M. Sanada, S. Morimoto, and Y. Inoue, "Improvement of Demagnetization by Rotor Structure of IPMSM with Dy-Free Rare-Earth Magnet," in Proceeding of IEEE International Electrical Machines and Systems Conference, Sapporo, 2012.

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 Design and Optimization of Fractional Slot Concentrated Windings Interior Permanent Magnet Traction Motor Considering Anti-Demagnetization Capability

I. Introduction With the large-scale application of rare-earth permanent magnet motors, the consumption of rare-earth PM material has increased sharply [1]. As a non-renewable resource, such excessive consumption increases the potential risks of further larger scale application of rare-earth PM motors. Recently, to alleviate the dependence on the rare-earth PMs, a type of less rare-earth permanent magnet (LRE-PM) machines has attracted much attention since the adoption the low cost of non-rare-earth Ferrite-PMs [2]. In this paper, a new asymmetric-PM-placed rotor topology is applied to the conventional LRE hybrid magnet machine, where such new placement of hybrid magnets can be designed to improve the torque performance effectively. Considering the complexity of rotor structure and the difference between two magnetic materials, the relationship among the size of the hybrid magnets (NdFeB-PMs and Ferrite-PMs), torque density and torque ripple is investigated through theoretical derivation and finite element analysis. And, some key size parameters are optimized to improve torque performances. II. Optimization Design and Analysis of Torque Performance In this paper, a new frozen permeability method is used to separate the components of total torque [3], and the design factors influencing torque ripple are deduced theoretically. According to the principle of equivalent magnetomotive force, the initial design of hybrid magnets is carried out. Then for the key size of hybrid magnets, the sensitivity analysis of multiple optimization objectives is conducted to obtain the optimal solution [4]. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by comparing the torque performance and anti-demagnetization property of the initial machine with that of the optimized one. Fig. 1(a) shows the proposed asymmetric-hybrid-PM machine structure. In the rotor, the NdFeB-PMs and Ferrite-PMs are asymmetric arranged in mixed series-parallel connection. It can be seen that the permanent magnet torque (Tpm) decreases due to the coupling effect of the two different magnets. However, by properly designing the size of spoken hybrid magnet element arranged asymmetrically, the reluctance torque (Tr) can be improved and the maximum torque approximation angle can be optimized to improve the torque density. Fig. 1(b) shows the sensitivity analysis results of key parameters and the optimal solution. The improvement of torque capabilities and anti-demagnetization ability is shown in Fig. 2, which verifies the validity of the proposed optimal method. III. Verification by FEM and Experimental Results In order to further verify the feasibility of the motor topology and the effectiveness of the proposed optimal method, an experimental prototype is fabricated, and more detailed electromagnetic performance analysis and experimental results will be presented in the full paper.

**References:**

Xianxian Zeng , Li Quan, Xiaoyong Zhu, et al., Investigation of an asymmetrical rotor hybrid permanent magnet motor for approaching maximum output torque. IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond., 2019, vol. 29, no. 2, Article No. 0602704. Qian Chen, Gaohong Xu, Guohai Liu, et al., Reduction of torque ripple caused by slot harmonics in FSCW spoke-type FPM motors by assisted poles, IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., 2020, Vol. 67, No. 11, pp. 9613-9622. Xiaoyong Zhu, Deyang Fan, Zixuan Xiang, et al., Systematic multi-level optimization design and dynamic control of less-rare-earth hybrid permanent magnet motor for all-climatic electric vehicles. Appl. Energy, 2019, 253, 113549. B.Ma, G. Lei, J. Zhu,Y. Guo, et al., Application-oriented robust design optimization method for batch production of permanent-magnet motors, IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 1728-1739, Feb. 2018.

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The asymmetric-hybrid-PM machine structure and the optimal design.

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The performance improvement of the proposed machine.

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