Study of Fault Tolerant Modular

In numerous vital industrial, medical and defence applications the translational movements are performed by linear electric motors. In such applications both the linear motor and its power converter should be fault tolerant. To fulfil this assignment redesigned motor structures with novel phase connections must be used. In the paper a three-phase fault-tolerant modular variable reluctance linear motor will be studied. The motor is built up of six modules and its phases are split into 2 independent channels. The comparative study of the proposed motor was performed via co-simulation, using the Flux-to-Simulink Technology. The final conclusions of the paper could help the users to select the optimal linear motor topology for their certain application, function of the required mean traction force and its acceptable ripples.