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As the ability to control motors progressed, so did the types of motors that could be controlled.<br />

One of the many variations that arose was the brushless permanent magnet synchronous (BPMS)<br />

motor, which is the subject of this report. Although there were many paths of development that<br />

occurred around the world, according to Jahns [108] the BPMS motor evolved from at least two<br />

distinct application areas. The first type (call them type-A) were BPMS motors with a rotor cage<br />

that would start across the line and then pull into synchronism. In the 1970s integral-horsepower<br />

versions were designed that offered excellent efficiency but their high cost prevented widespread<br />

acceptance. In the second path of development, permanent magnet (PM) brushed DC servos (call<br />

them type-B) began to replace those with field coils in the 1960s, thus eliminating the field loss.<br />

According to Jahns, these two development paths converged in the 1970s, where for the first time<br />

PM-rotor synchronous motors were driven by solid-state inverters. Before the merger, rotor losses<br />

(type-A) and field losses (type-B) had been eliminated, but now rotor inertia was decreased due to<br />

the elimination of the starting cage (type-A) and of the armature on the rotor (type-B); this<br />

enabled faster maximum acceleration rates. Further, the problems associated with a brushcommutator<br />

system (outgassing, mechanical and electrical inefficiency, required maintenance,<br />

voltage and current limits, and the impossibility of operating submersed or in explosive<br />

environments) of type-B machines were eliminated. According to Jahns, electronicallycommutated<br />

motors (ECMs) were developed first, simply because of the simplicity of the control<br />

required. Later (late 1970s and 1980s) the sinusoidal variety was developed; this was a significant<br />

advancement because it required the phase of the VVVF output waveforms to be controlled in<br />

addition to amplitude and frequency (whereas for the induction motor, control of the phase was<br />

unnecessary). More about the differences between the ECM and the sine motor will be discussed<br />

at the end of Chapter 2.<br />

Return again to the beginning of the century to examine modeling. André Blondel introduced<br />

two-reaction (or two-axis, or d-q) theory in France before 1900 which was translated into English<br />

in 1913 [1]. In the United States this was extended by R.E. Doherty and C.A. Nickle in late 1920s<br />

([2]-[6]) and was more-finalized by R.H. Park in 1929 [7], [8]. Two-reaction theory allowed<br />

salient machines to be analyzed and was important in studying machine stability and transient<br />

operation (today, almost all such analysis uses the transform). In the middle of the century the<br />

“generalized theory of electric machines” ([18], [37, ch.9]) was gaining ground and Kron’s tensor<br />

analysis ([13], [14]) was causing a stir, although the author is unsure of the influence of these two<br />

theoretical areas. It seems that the “final” step in modeling was the idea of using complex space<br />

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