Comparison and Analysis of Post-Fault Operation Modes in a Five-Phase PMSM Considering Thermal Behavior

This paper presents a comparative evaluation of fault tolerant control strategies for a five-phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine (PMSM) under an opened-phase fault mode. Two main classical Fault Tolerant Control (FTC) methods and the no-reconfiguration strategy are compared with the normal mode operation considering peak current, peak voltage, average torque, torque ripples and measured temperatures of five windings of the five phases. The analysis of the temperature repartition shows that, in fault mode, at least in the particular studied case, the knowledge of the Joule losses is not sufficient for a correct control of the temperature