Preliminary Design and Optimization of Toroidally Wound Limited Angle Servo Motor Based on a Generalized Magnetic Circuit Model

Abstract

This paper proposes a new generalized equivalent magnetic circuit model for the preliminary design of a toroidally-wound limited angle servo motor (LASM). In the model, the magnetic networks are formulated as a function of the pole number and geometric dimensions. Nonlinear saturation effect of the ferromagnetic material is also taken into consideration. A multi-objective optimization function involving the torque requirement, the mass, the time constant, and magnetic saturations of ferromagnetic material is introduced. Based on the proposed model, six design cases with different objectives have been carried by the particle swarm optimization (PSO) method. The comparisons of different optimization cases demonstrate the effectiveness and computation efficiency of the proposed method, and hence its suitability in preliminary design. Moreover, the generalized model can be readily applied in the other electromagnetic modeling.Index Terms-Magnetic equivalent circuit, limited angle servo motor, magnetic saturation, multi-objective optimization. 0018-9464 (c)

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