Bearingless Permanent Magnet Motors: Trends and Technical Advancements

Activity: Talk or presentationInvited talkscience-to-science

Description

Bearingless motors employ special winding systems and control methods that combine magnetic levitation and rotation functions in a single motor unit. Disc-shaped designs enable contactless operation with only three actively controlled degrees of freedom. This facilitates the design of very compact drive systems such as wear-free pumps and other applications that do not need rigid rotor guidance. Since the nineties bearingless motor technology has continuously evolved and many innovations have been generated. This paper introduces some trends and technical advancements that have been made in recent years by the research groups of ACCM, JKU and LCM in Linz, Austria.
Period18 Jun 2012
Event titleActuator 12, 13th International Conference on New Actuators and 7th International Exhibition on Smart Actuators and Drive Systems, June 18 - 20, 2012
Event typeConference
LocationGermanyShow on map

Fields of science

  • 202027 Mechatronics
  • 202034 Control engineering
  • 202011 Electrical machines
  • 202021 Industrial electronics
  • 202009 Electrical drive engineering

JKU Focus areas

  • Mechatronics and Information Processing