Fault Tolerant Electrical Machines. State of the Art and Future Directions

Nowadays the evolution of electrical engineering achieved a successful expansion in the area of fault tolerant electrical machines. To achieve fault tolerance researchers tried to design various geometries and different electrical drives. When new designers are intended to be performed the knowledge of the actualstate of the work is impetuously needed. The paper summarizes the most important information on these topics. Both fault tolerant machine and drive structure were taken into accounts. In the paper also a new idea for a fault tolerant switched reluctance machine having a special winding is presented. The future tasks to be performed are also mentioned in the paper.