Final Report - Part 1: Aspects of Switched Reluctance Motor Drive Application for Electric Vehicle Propulsion

Part 1 of the final report develops a new sizing procedure to calculate the SRM peak and continuous power ratings and introduces new coefficients that consider multi-phase operation. It then proposes a new Feed-Forward ANN-based system to map the SRM terminal variables and the SRM mutual interaction and torque. It also proposes a ANN-based on-line torque estimator which does not require a torque transducer and adapts to the characteristic of the individual SRM. Finally, this report concludes by considering an implementation of the ANN on the Texas Instrument express DSP TMS320C6701.