Publications by Miroslav Markovic

Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Flex-PCB Air-Gap Windings in Slotless BLDC Machines

Yves Perriard, Miroslav Markovic, Bruno Dehez, François Baudart

Slotless brushless dc motors find more and more applications due to their high performance and their low production cost. This paper focuses on the windings inserted in the air gap of these motors and, in particular, to an original production technique tha ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Empirical Modeling of a Squeeze Film Haptic Actuator

Yves Perriard, Miroslav Markovic, Christophe Winter

In the analysis of squeeze film haptic tactile feedback actuators, attention is focused on establishing an empirical model of the force generated on the user's finger. The model is based on finite-element simulations which take into account the real motion ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Shape optimization of flexible PCB slotless windings in BLDC machines

Yves Perriard, Miroslav Markovic, Bruno Dehez, François Baudart

2013

Design and Optimization of A Blood Pump for A Wearable Artificial Kidney Device

Yves Perriard, Miroslav Markovic, Michaël Rapin

The aim of the European project Nephron+ is the design of a wearable artificial kidney device. This paper is focused on the design of the corresponding ultralow-hemolysis continuous-operation blood pump. Accurate specifications and operating principle of t ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2013

First pulse technique for brushless DC motor standstill position detection based on iron B-H hysteresis

Yves Perriard, Miroslav Markovic, Omar Scaglione

This paper introduces a promising technique, called the first-pulse technique, for detecting the rotor position of a brushless DC motor at standstill. The technique is based on the B-H hysteresis characteristics of the stator iron. Depending on the rotor p ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2012

An Analytical Solution for the Torque and Power of a Solid-Rotor Induction Motor

Yves Perriard, Miroslav Markovic

An analytical solution for the torque and power of a solid-rotor two-pole three-phase slotless induction motor is presented. The field excitation is a current layer placed at the stator interior surface. The solution is based on an analytical solution of t ...

IEEE2011

Kalman Filter to Measure Position and Speed of a Linear Actuator

Yves Perriard, Joël Maridor, Miroslav Markovic

This paper presents a method to dynamically filter the position and the speed of a linear actuator during its closing. A previous paper presented position detection without external sensor but, by simply deriving it, the corresponding speed was not usable ...

IEEE2011

Extension of the Local Observability down to Zero Speed of BLDC Motor State-Space Models Using Iron B-H Local Hysteresis

Yves Perriard, Miroslav Markovic, Omar Scaglione

2011

Towards multi-fingered haptic devices: a computer keyboard with adjustable force feedback

Yves Perriard, Miroslav Markovic, Grégory Savioz

2011

Conception and optimization of a piezoelectric linear motor for the generation of high linear forces

Yves Perriard, Miroslav Markovic, Nicolas Ferrier

2011

Analytical Determination of the Phase Inductances of a Brushless DC Motor With Faulhaber Winding

Yves Perriard, Patrick Ragot, Miroslav Markovic

This paper presents a method to analytically model the self and mutual phase inductances of a brushless dc motor with a Faulhaber winding. The method of images is used to “remove” the motor iron parts in the model in order to analyze the winding completely ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2010

Optimization design of a segmented Halbach permanent magnet motor using an analytical model

Yves Perriard, Miroslav Markovic

We present an optimization design of a slotless permanent-magnet brushless dc motor (400 W, 6000 rpm), with two-segment Halbach arrays. The optimization is based on a motor analytical model which is obtained by solving the magnetic scalar potential using t ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2009

Optimization design of a linear actuator using a genetic algorithm

Yves Perriard, Joël Maridor, Miroslav Markovic

This paper presents a method to optimize two linear actuator configurations. The method is stochastic and combines a genetic algorithm (GA) and FEM (finite element method) model generated with the commercial software FEMM. The optimization is performed in ...

2009

Eddy current power losses in a toroidal laminated core with rectangular cross section

Yves Perriard, Miroslav Markovic

The paper presents a completely analytical solution for the magnetic field, the induced eddy currents and corresponding losses in a toroidal laminated core with a rectangular cross section. The diffusion equation is analytically solved using a separation o ...

2009

An analytical determination of the torque–speed and efficiency–speed characteristics

André Hodder, Yves Perriard, Miroslav Markovic

2009

PM motor sensorless position detection based on iron B-H local hysteresis

Yves Perriard, Miroslav Markovic, Omar Scaglione

A sensorless position detection technique for a permanent magnet (PM) motor with non-salient rotor is presented. It is shown that the phase self inductances and resistances measured at higher frequencies vary slightly with the rotor position. The origin of ...

2009

An analytical solution for the rotor eddy current losses in a slotless PM motor: the case of current layer excitation

Yves Perriard, Miroslav Markovic, Pierre-Daniel Pfister

We present an analytical solution for the induced eddy currents and the corresponding losses generated in the rotor of a slotless permanent magnet (PM) motor. The field excitation is a current layer placed at the stator interior surface. The solution is ba ...

2009

Analytical Solution for Rotor Eddy-Current Losses in a Slotless Permanent-Magnet Motor: The Case of Current Sheet Excitation

Yves Perriard, Miroslav Markovic

We present an analytical solution for the magnetic field, induced eddy currents, and the corresponding losses generated in the rotor of a slotless permanent-magnet (PM) motor. The field excitation is a current sheet placed at the stator interior surface. T ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2008

Brushless DC Motor for a Solar Airplane Application: Comparison between Simulations and Measurements

Paolo Germano, Yves Perriard, Patrick Ragot, Miroslav Markovic

2008

Analysis of the Commutation Currents for a Sinusoidal BLDC Motor

André Hodder, Yves Perriard, Miroslav Markovic

2008