This brand new 822-page brushless machine design book is generously illustrated in

color as the authors have tried to catch up with the progress over the last 16
years of PM brushless machine design and development since their well known 1994
book. Almost the entire work is the direct result of intensive consulting by the
authors, in collaborating with many of the leading producers of brushless
permanent-magnet machine products worldwide.

This book was written with a focus on actual engineering practice and tries to deal
with most of the questions that arise on a daily basis in PM brushless machine
design. It is written for practicing engineers, many of whom have used the 1994
book heavily. The book includes many more examples than the 1994 book.

The authors partnership is a longstanding combination of theoretical, practical and

consulting experience, while the book with its rich illustrations of industrial
products celebrates the rich engineering accomplishments of design engineers from
all over the world.
SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTORS AND THEIR CONTROLS

Author: TJE Miller

ISBN: 1-881855-02-03
Price: $100.00

The aim of this book is to help engineers understand, design and evaluate the
switched reluctance motor (SRM) and its controls. The SRM is a relative newcomer to
the family of electric motors and is unusual both for having salient teeth on rotor
and stator and for its complete dependence on its power electronic controls. It is
however remarkably versatile.

Part of the design problems is that the switched reluctance motor does not conform
to the established design techniques used for classic DC and AC electric motors.
The practical design engineer is confronted with a machine that has no steady
state, has extreme localized saturation and requires an unfamiliar power-electronic
converter to make it work at all. The geometry is beguilingly simple and everything
about the motor and its control seems at first sight to be a gift to the production
engineer. Yet the attainment of good designs and satisfactory performance is
practically impossible by traditional design methods.

The Author TJE Miller is Lucas Professor of power electronics and the director of
the SPEED Consortium at the University of Glasgow U.K. He has 20 years experience
in the U.K. and General Electric Research in Schenectady, New York plus
teaching/research at the University of Glasgow.
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