Simulation of Dynamics of a Permanent Magnet Linear Actuator

Comparison of two approaches for the simulation of the dynamic behaviour of a permanent magnet linear actuator is presented. These are full coupled model, where the electromagnetic field, electric circuit and mechanical motion problems are solved simultaneously, and decoupled model, where first a set of static magnetic filed analysis is carried out and then the electric circuit and mechanical motion equations are solved employing bi-cubic spline approximations of the field analysis results. The results show that the proposed decoupled model is of satisfactory accuracy and gives more flexibility when the actuator response is required to be estimated for different external conditions, e.g. external circuit parameters or mechanical loads.

Authors:

• Ivan Yatchev
• Ewen Ritchie

Keywords:

• Coupled problems
• dynamic models
• finite elementanalysis
• linear actuators
• permanent magnets.

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