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For an open-end windings integrated Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine, the demagnetization of the permanent magnets is analyzed when a transistor is short-circuited and no specific control strategy is adopted. Depending on the temperature, the high currents due to the inverter fault may locally demagnetized the permanent magnets leading to an accelerated aging of the machine and torque loss. A co-simulation, using a Finite Element software for the machine coupled with an average modeling of the transistor, gives interesting local prediction of the machine behavior in healthy and degraded mode. This work has been achieved within the framework of CE2I project. CE2I is co-financed by European Union with the financial support of European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), French State and the French Region of Hauts-de-France.

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International audience; This paper deals with an energy management improvement based on frequency sharing approach for an electric vehicle. In order to satisfy the traction/propulsion system requirement, the Fuel cell (FC) system is assisted by lithium-ion batteries and Supercapacitors (SC). Bidirectional Buck Boost converters link the batteries and Supercapacitors to the DC-Bus. The FC stack is connected to the DC-Bus by an interleaved Boost DC-DC converter. The traction/propulsion motor is a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) coupled to a DC motor in order to emulate the vehicle's load and energy requirements during the driven cycle. The DC-Bus feeds the permanent magnet synchronous motor via a bidirectional DC-AC converter. The contribution of this study involves EV's energy effort sharing between Supercapacitors, Fuel cells and Lithium-ion batteries, taking into account the dynamic responses and electrical performances of each energy sources. The effectiveness of the control is verified through simulations performed on Matlab/Simulink software.

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International audience; This paper describes an energy management strategy for an electric vehicle (EV). The proposed EV architecture contains a pack of the batteries which presents the energy source and a pack of the supercapacitors (SC) used as power source. The pack of the batteries produces the necessary energy to move forward the vehicle while the pack of the SC produces the lacking power in acceleration and in braking phases. Two DC-DC converters are used to interface the energy sources with the DC-bus. A bidirectional DC-AC converter is used to connect the traction motor to the DC-bus. The proposed control method is focused on the power flow management within the EV depending on electrical behavior of the energy sources. The validity of the proposed control strategy is proofed through some reduced scale simulations tests using the New European Driving Cycle (NEDC).

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Aiming to successfully meet the requirements of a large output torque and a wide range of flux weakening speed expansion in permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSM) for electric vehicles, a novel surface insert permanent magnet synchronous motor (SIPMSM) is developed. The method of notching auxiliary slots between the magnetic poles in the rotor and unequal thickness magnetic poles is proposed to improve the performance of the motor. By analyzing the magnetic circuit characteristics of the novel SIPMSM, the notching auxiliary slots between the adjacent magnetic poles can affect the q-axis inductance, and the shape of magnetic pole effects the d-axis inductance of the motor. The combined action of the two factors not only weakens the cogging torque, but also improves the flux weakening capability of the motor. In this paper, the response surface methodology (RSM) is used to establish a mathematical model of the relationship between the structural parameters of the motor and the optimization objectives, and the optimal design of the motor is completed by solving the mathematical model. Experimental validation has been conducted to show the correctness and effectiveness of the proposed SIPMSM. Document type: Article