Brushless DC motor with high torque density and slim topology for easy loading for robot system is proposed and manufactured. Electromagnetic design is executed by equivalent magnetic circuit model and numerical analysis. Manufactured motor is tested and verified characteristics comparing with conventional BLDC motor. Keywords—Brushless DC motor, Robot joint module, Torque density, Pole/slot ratio

Variable speed drive systems of brushless DC motors have been widely used for industry applications, home electric appliances, and so on, due to the progress of the power electronics, because of simple structure, easy maintenance, high efficiency, etc.. Moreover, because the brushless DC motor can realize the same high performance as DC motor, it is used in the fields where the high speed and h...

this paper presents the method of reducing torque ripple of brushless dc (bldc) motor. the commutation torque ripple is reduced by control of the dc link voltage during the commutation time. the magnitude of voltage and commutation time is estimated by a neural network and optimized with an optimization method named particle swarm optimization (pso) algorithm analysis. the goal of optimization ...

Received Jan 17, 2017 Revised Mar 17, 2017 Accepted Mar 31, 2017 Brushless DC motor is a synchronous machine that makes use of electronic commutation instead of mechanical commutator. Brushless DC motors makes use of inverter encompassing static switches for its operation. A simple bridge converter when used for BLDC drive as front end converter makes input source power factor to get reduced wh...

In a conventional three phase Brushless DC machine with 120° electrical conduction, Harmonics and commutation torque ripple occurs because of changeover of load current from one phase to another at every 60 electrical degrees. This paper presents techniques for diminishing the harmonics and torque ripples in sensor Brushless DC motor. This torque ripple reduction techniques based on voltage con...

This article introduces a sort of intelligent brushless DC motor driver and its concrete application in electric bicycle, and discusses the hardware and software design scheme of the controller, and realizes the speed control, over-current protection and battery under-voltage protection of the brushless DC motor. And the experiment result indicates that the control effect is good, and it could ...

Brushless DC (BLDC) motors are commonly used in applications that require high reliability, high efficiency and high power-to-volume ratio such as industrial automations, manufacturing, robotics and aerospace. The speed of a brushless dc motor can be controlled in a closed loop by measuring the actual speed of the motor.PI (Proportional Integral), PID (Proportional Integral Derivative) and fuzz...

Brushless dc (BLDC) motor drives are continually gaining popularity in motion control applications. Therefore, it is necessary to have a low cost, but effective BLDC motor speed/torque regulator. They are used in Residential and commercial appliances such as refrigerators and air conditioning systems with conventional motor drive technology. A Brushless DC (BLDC) drives are known for higher eff...

This paper presents a new hybrid Cultural Algorithm (CA) based particle swarm optimization (PSO) that converges to a significantly more accurate solution then existing particle swarm optimization and which has also been applied to the linear brushless DC motor PID controller design. The utility of hybrid CA based PSO is demonstrated by determining the optimal proportional-integral-derivative (P...

This paper describes the analysis and design of a low cost three phase inverter brushless dc motor (BLDC) drive.For effective utilization of the developed system, a novel direct current controlled pwm scheme (DPC)is designed and implemented.. The operational principle of the four-switch BLDC motor drive and the developed control scheme are theoretically analyzed and the performance is demonstra...