DS-DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Linear Motor, Induction Motor, Material Handling

• School: Integral University
• Department: Engineering
• Course: DS-DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM

Document Summary

Linear electric motors belong to the group of special electrical machines that convert electrical energy into mechanical energy of translation motion. Linear electric motors can be classified as follows. Synchronous motors including reluctance and stepper motors. The linear motors (lm) are very effective drive mechanisms for transportation and actuation systems. The high power linear motors are used in rapid transportation, baggage handling, conveyors, crane drives, theme park rides and flexible manufacturing systems. The low power ones are used in robotics, gate control, guided trajectories and stage and curtain movement. Nasa envisions the use of such motors in launching space-crafts in future. Before the advent of linear motors, rotary motors with rotary to linear converters of some kind were used to produce linear motions. The most obvious advantage of a linear motor is that it has no gears and requires no mechanical rotary to linear converters.