TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to apply an Ant colony optimization approach for the solution of the topological design of interior permanent magnet (IPM) machines. Design/methodology/approach– The IPM motor design domain is discretized into a suitable equivalent graph representation and an Ant System (AS) algorithm is employed to achieve an efficient distribution of materials into this graph. Findings– The single-objective problems associated with the maximization of the torque and with the maximization of the shape smoothness of the IPM are investigated. The rotor of the device is discretized into a 9×18 grid in both cases, and three different materials are considered: air, iron and permanent magnet. Research limitations/implications– The graph representation used enables the solution of topological design problems with an arbitrary number of materials, which is relevant for 2 and 3D problems. Originality/value– From the numerical experiments, the AS algorithm was able to achieve reasonable shapes and torque values for both design problems. The results show the relevance of the mechanism for multi-domain topology optimization of electromagnetic devices.
VL  - 33
IS  - 3
SN  - 0332-1649
DO  - 10.1108/COMPEL-08-2013-0285
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/COMPEL-08-2013-0285
AU  - S. Batista Lucas
AU  - Campelo Felipe
AU  - G. Guimarães Frederico
AU  - A. Ramírez Jaime
AU  - Li Min
AU  - A. Lowther David
ED  - Professor Luc Dupré and Dr Guillaume Crevecoeur
PY  - 2014
Y1  - 2014/01/01
TI  - Ant colony optimization for the topological design of interior permanent magnet (IPM) machines
T2  - COMPEL: The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 927
EP  - 940
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -