关键词: 永磁体, 小波分析, 无刷直流电机, 故障诊断

Abstract: This paper focused on the PMs fault diagnosis of outer-rotor-mounted elctric car BLDC motor, with the applications of wavelet analysis. Two types of fault were discussed, the uniformity of PM arrangement and the detection of PM demagnetization. The Hall sensor outputs of the hub motor were employed as the characteristic signals to diagnose the arrangement of PMs with the applications of wavelet decomposition method. Certain frequencies of the wave form of phase current were extracted and their energy percentages were computed, using continuous wavelet transform, whether a demagnetization fault occurred was judged during motor operations. Experimental results show that the informations of the non-uniformity and the demagnetization faults of PMs may be obtained by the methods mentioned above, which offer a new methodology based on wavelet analysis to diagnose the PM faults in the hub motor.

Key words: permanent magnet(PM), wavelet analysis, brushless DC(BLDC) motor, fault diagnosis