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applications in which a wide speed range, smooth motion, and fast response are desired; they are<br />

therefore excluded. Finally, reluctance motors (both switched-reluctance and continuous<br />

synchronous-reluctance) have been the subject of much research in recent decades but are not a<br />

common type of off-the-shelf servo motor; they are therefore excluded.<br />

Figure 2.6 – General motor taxonomy used in this report.<br />

The taxonomy shown in Figure 2.6 is the one that will be used throughout this report (a more<br />

detailed discussion of the types of PM synchronous motors is deferred until the end of the<br />

chapter). Given the previous definitions of DC and AC motors—and the exclusion of the<br />

universal motor—all motors in this report can be classified as either DC or AC. Note that DC<br />

motors employ brushes (and accompanying commutator) whereas AC motors do not. A brief<br />

reasoning behind the selection of this taxonomy is as follows, proceeding from left to right in<br />

Figure 2.6. DC motors have historically been used when variable speed is required; only in the<br />

past several decades have they begun to be replaced by AC variable speed and servo drives [87],<br />

[78], [73]. The wound-field separately excited (SE) DC motor is important in the industry<br />

because it has field-weakening capability and it is important in this report because its control<br />

model is similar to that of a motor operating under field oriented control (FOC). The permanent<br />

magnet (PM) brush DC motor is important because of its simplicity and its power density (as<br />

compared with that of the wound-field DC motor); many (most?) brushed PM servo motors are of<br />

this type. PM DC motors do not need compensating windings, do not suffer field losses, are less<br />

susceptible to armature reaction, and have simpler torque-speed characteristics when compared to<br />

wound-field motors that are not separately excited (namely, motors wound in series, shunt, or any<br />

combination thereof). The dominant AC motors are the asynchronous AC induction motor and<br />

the permanent magnet synchronous motor. Presently, it seems that most PM synchronous motors<br />

(i.e. commercially available servo motors) use non-salient rotors, though salient rotors have been<br />

heavily researched, can be controlled satisfactorily, and are in use in certain applications. Salient<br />

rotor motors have the advantages of better field-weakening capability, an additional reluctance<br />

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