%0 Journal Article %T Improved Design of an Outer Rotor Six-Phase Induction Motor With Variable Turn Pseudo-Concentrated Windings %+ Department of Electrical Engineering - Sharif University of Technology %+ Laboratoire des technologies innovantes - UR UPJV 3899 (LTI) %A Rezazadeh, Ghasem %A Tahami, Farzad %A Capolino, Gerard-Andre %A Nasiri-Gheidari, Zahra %A Henao, Humberto %A Sahebazamani, Mehdi %< avec comité de lecture %@ 0885-8969 %J IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion %I Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers %V 37 %N 2 %P 1020-1029 %8 2022 %D 2022 %R 10.1109/TEC.2021.3126538 %Z Engineering Sciences [physics]Journal articles %X In this paper, a novel six-phase outer rotor induction motor equipped with pseudo-concentrated windings is introduced as a robust, reliable, and low-cost solution. Multiple aspects of the proposed motor structure have been investigated such as a design algorithm and an analytical modeling based on the modified winding function considering the skew effect. The effect of using variable number of turns for the coils has been examined on the pseudo-concentrated windings. An appropriate optimization problem has been also defined to maximize the power factor and efficiency and to minimize the output torque ripple. The designed motor has been fabricated to verify the accuracy of the design procedure with an analytical model and a finite element analysis. Experimental results show superior performances for the designed motor. %G English %L hal-03692569 %U https://u-picardie.hal.science/hal-03692569 %~ UNIV-PICARDIE %~ U-PICARDIE %~ LTI