The Reduction of Force Component Produced by Short Sides by Analyzing the Corner of Coil in Planar Motor with Halbach Magnet Array

Abstract

The planar motor with moving-magnet is purely levitated by the stator coils. The forces produced by coils are calculated with the analytical model of magnet array and coil surface model for applying to the real time control. Take the coil and the Halbach magnet array which is at 45 degree with the long side of coil for analysis. The force component produced by short sides can be eliminated for conveniently controlling when the length of coil takes certain dimension. In practice, the force component produced by short sides is small but not zero. There are two reasons, one is the higher harmonics and the other is the corner segments of coil. The force integral expressions of coil corner segments are given by the Lorenz force law. Then the forces numerically calculated with harmonic model and coil full model are verified by comparing with the magnetic surface charge model and finite element model. In order to reduce the force component produced by short sides, the different corners of coil are analyzed. Comparing the forces of different corners of coil, the force component produced by short sides can be significantly reduced with slightly change of the other force components.