Multi-Objective Optimization Applied to the Matching of a Specified Torque-Speed Curve for an Internal Permanent Magnet Motor


Abstract

Traditionally, the objective function used for optimizing the design of an internal permanent magnet motor (IPM) has maximized efficiency or torque for a particular current or volume. Creating a particular torque speed curve can be considered to be a multi-objective problem and would usually be expressed in terms of a single objective by minimizing the average error over the curve. In this paper, it is proposed to treat this directly as a multi-objective problem thus allowing the designer to decide which tradeoffs in the torque-speed performance are most acceptable after the analysis has been performed rather than before. Additionally, a new variant of a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm using mixed elitism, intended for this problem, is described.