Electric Drive System of Dual-Winding Fault-Tolerant Permanent-Magnet Motor for Aerospace Applications

In this paper, a new electric drive system based on a six-phase ten-pole dual-winding fault-tolerant permanent-magnet (DFPM) motor for aerospace applications is proposed and investigated. The proposed DFPM motor consists of optimal surface-mounted permanent-magnet (PM) rotor and 12-slot stator with two sets of independent three-phase concentrated armature windings on alternate teeth, which incorporates the merits of high power density and high efficiency of the PM motor and high fault tolerance of the dual-winding motor. To achieve the fault-tolerant performance of the electric drive system, the redundant fault-tolerant control strategy based on the failure diagnosis and redundancy communication is proposed and applied to the electric drive system. Then, the operational performance of the drive system under open-circuit and short-circuit fault has been verified by simulation and experiments. The research results show that the open-circuit and short-circuit fault can be detected immediately and the output performance of the DFPM motor under fault conditions is almost the same as the normal condition, which verified the proposed electric drive system, DFPM motor, and fault-tolerant control strategy.