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Taxonomy of Motors<br />

There is any number of ways to categorize electric motors and these different categorization<br />

methods are useful in different areas of motor applications. Many presented in the literature<br />

contain glaring errors but even the correct ones must be interpreted carefully (including those<br />

found in this report). For this report it makes the most sense to categorize motors according to the<br />

requirements for controlling them but it is hard to discuss such a categorization without being<br />

able to relate it to the physical construction and operation of motors. Therefore several<br />

classification schemes will be presented, beginning with a top-level overview and working<br />

toward the control-oriented taxonomy used in this report. This discussion concerns only the motor<br />

itself (not the motor together with a motor controller). The first categorization is shown in Figure<br />

2.3. It is a general, broad categorization that shows common types of machines and is included<br />

only to provide perspective. Older motors (such as repulsion and two-phase), specialty motors<br />

(such as electrostatic and PCB types), and very low-power motors (such as hysteresis and selfstarting<br />

reluctance) are excluded.<br />

Figure 2.3 – General categorization of machines.<br />

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