C302 FROM SMALL SCALED EXPERIMENTS TO FULL SCALE PROTOTYPES, THE FRENCH EXPERIENCE IN LINEAR MOTOR DEVELOPMENT

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INRETS has been involved with linear motor design for 25 years now. This paper presents the history of the scientific and technical development of the specific linear induction motor "LIM" based on U shape reaction rail, originally designed for high speed guided vehicles. The methodology of design is based on an original way involving experimental test on reduced scale machine highly linked to analytic modeling in order to success with accuracy the design of high power-high speed linear motor.