Gradient-Based Design Optimization of a Switched Reluctance Motor for an HVAC Application

This work proposes a 6/14 SRM that achieves the performance specifications of a commercially available motor of a heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system. The authors developed a MATLAB tool to automate the design process of the considered motor. The tool calculates the sensitivities/gradients of the considered objective function with respect to various design parameters. An interior-point algorithm uses the estimated gradients …