Analysis and Comparison of Unconventional Converters for Switched Reluctance Machine Drives

Proliferation of electronics is a major breakthrough in the industrial sector as these play a promising role in the functioning of electric machines and together described as an electric drive. In this regard, the important factor is the efficiency of the electric drive. Based on this aspect, many electric machines have been invented and among all those machines switched reluctance motor (SRM) has found to be more beneficial because of its reduced losses. This paper presents different unconventional converters which are helpful for the functioning of low power SRM drives. Three different converters along with simulation results are presented and based upon the results of the three converters, the efficient converter for low power SRM drives is chosen for the hardware development. Experimental tests and simulations have shown the proposed converter results are closely correlated with the simulated results.