Control for mutually coupled switched reluctance motor with double-layer winding

A control system for a motor, comprising:

• a switched reluctance motor comprising:
• a rotor comprising a plurality of salient poles;
• and
• a stator disposed concentrically with the rotor, the stator comprising a plurality of slots on a stator core, each of the plurality of slots accommodating a first coil and a second coil, each of the first coil and the second coil being wound around the stator core in a toroidal configuration, each of the first coil and the second coil respectively forming a plurality of stator poles;
• and
• a drive circuit comprising at least two independently controlled circuits that control currents,
• wherein a first winding of the first coil and a first winding of the second coil in a same slot are independently excited by providing at least one of positive or negative currents from the drive circuit at appropriate timings, and
• wherein the drive circuit is configured to supply the positive and negative currents to each of the first coil and the second coil in the plurality of slots bi-directionally or in single direction so that, in addition to excitation of the first coil and the second coil for a phase, excitations for N phases are performed simultaneously to form a single magnetic flux loop, N being an integer greater than 0.