Partitioned Stator Hybrid Excited Machine with DC-Biased Sinusoidal Current

This paper proposes a new partitioned stator hybrid excited (PS-HE) machine with DC-biased sinusoidal current. On the inner stator, the consequent pole permanent magnets (PMs) are employed as the PM excitation. On the outer stator, a set of integrated dual three-phase winding is adopted to produce the wound and armature fields at the same time by injecting the sinusoidal current with DC bias. So, the flexible flux regulation can be realized by controlling the DC bias component. The rotor composed of segmented iron cores is sandwiched between two stators. By employing the air-gap field modulation theory, the air-gap magnetic field harmonics are analyzed to explain the operating and flux regulation principle. Further, a design optimization and the electromagnetic performances of proposed machine are investigated by finite element analysis. When compared with the existing series and parallel PS-HE machines, the proposed machine can avoid the disadvantage of low torque density of parallel HE machine, and it can solve the problem of the poor flux regulation ability of series HE machine as well, which is mainly contributed by the reasonable space allocation of PMs and field winding excitations. Finally, a prototype is built and tested to verify the theoretical analyses.