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Remarkable characteristics like simple structure, high starting torque, simple maintenance, good efficiency at all speeds and cost-effectiveness have made switched reluctance machines (SRMs) suitable candidates for electric cars, electric bicycles and variable speed applications (VSAs) such as wind turbines. In this paper, a three-phase Outer-Rotor SRM (ORSRM) with 6 stator poles and 10 rotor poles (6/10) for VSA has been investigated. Unlike conventional SRM structures such as 6/4 and 12/8, an SRM model with higher number of rotor poles can reduce torque ripple much more effective than conventional SRMs. First, the SRM design is done accurately, then, by changing some parameters, the sensitivity analysis is performed on torque ripple and average torque. Finally, the optimisation process on the geometry and structural dimensions of the SRM like rotor pole arc, stator pole arc, rotor yoke thickness, rotor pole height, rotor diameter and the number of turns per phase are executed to minimise the torque ripple and maximise the average torque via genetic algorithm (GA). The initial design, optimisation and performance of the proposed model are validated via a 2-D finite element method (FEM) technique by ANSYS-Maxwell. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

(HBLDC) motor based on the adaptive nonlinear internal-model control (ANIMC) is presented. Rotor position information is obtained online by the Hall--Effect sensors placed on the motor's shaft, and is used to calculate the accurate model and accurate inverse model of the HBLDC motor. The online inverse model of the motor is used in the controller structure. To suppress the reference (ωref)error, the negative feedback of difference between the motor speed and its model output (ωmotor - ωmodel) is applied in the proposed controller. An appropriate signal is the output of the controller, which drives the power switches to converge the motor speed to the constant desired speed. Simulations and experiments are carried out on a 1:5kW three-phase HBLDC motor. The proposed drive system operates well in the speed response and has good robustness with respect to the disturbances. To validate the theoretical analysis, several experimental results are discussed in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]