“…Several techniques have been proposed to reduce radial forces in the airgap, torque ripple and cogging torque which are some of the major contributors to vibrations and thus noise. A common solution is to modify the machine design where solutions like skewing [2–4], selecting a suitable pole and slot number combination [4–9], selecting an adequate winding type [2, 10], magnet shaping [3], magnet positioning [2, 9, 11–13], adding dummy slots and teeth [2, 9, 11, 14] or reducing the slot opening [9, 15, 16], have been proven to be the most effective techniques for this purpose. These modifications on the design can also be applied combined to produce larger improvements on the acoustic performance.…”