The main idea of this system is to use a linear reluctance motor for drive, guidance and suspension.

Reluctance motors can deliver very high power density at low cost, making them ideal for many applications.

Very small reluctance motors have low torque, and are generally used for instrumentation applications.

This is known as a reluctance motor.

Synchronous reluctance motors have an equal number of stator and rotor poles.

There are various types of reluctance motor:

The most common approach to the powering of a switched reluctance motor is to use an asymmetric bridge converter.

Reluctance motor (may be synchronous or not)

Reluctance motor designs have ratings that range from fractional horsepower (a few watts) to about 22 kW.

There are 3 phases in an asymmetric bridge converter corresponding to the phases of the switched reluctance motor.

Additionally, soft magnetic material with many teeth on the rotor and stator cheaply multiplies the number of poles (reluctance motor).

Switched reluctance motors are very large stepping motors with a reduced pole count, and generally are closed-loop commutated.

They employ 12 X-shaped control rods driven by DC-powered movable armature reluctance motors.

A reluctance motor is a type of electric motor that induces non-permanent magnetic poles on the ferromagnetic rotor.

The term electronic commutator is usually associated with self-commutated brushless DC motor and switched reluctance motor applications.

It is similar to the contemporary switched reluctance motor and stepper motor, although there is no continuous magnetic circuit between opposed poles.

Variation of reluctance is the principle behind the reluctance motor (or the variable reluctance generator) and the Alexanderson alternator.

The switched reluctance motor (SRM) is a form of stepper motor that uses fewer poles.

The motor part of a brushless motor is often a permanent magnet synchronous motor, but can also be a switched reluctance motor, or induction motor.

The seven-ton vehicle had two direct-drive reluctance motors, with fixed electromagnets acting on iron bars attached to a wooden cylinder on each axle, and simple commutators.

Closely related in design to three-phase AC synchronous motors, stepper motors and SRMs are classified as variable reluctance motor type.

Late 1990s: EMB Lectra VR24 electric motorbike pioneered the use of variable reluctance motors (hence the VR) and was marketed as street legal.

The switched reluctance motor (SRM) is a type of reluctance motor, an electric motor that runs by reluctance torque.

Modules are available for brushless permanent magnet motors (BPM), outer rotor BPM motors, induction motors, permanent magnet dc machines, switched reluctance motors, synchronous machines and claw pole machines.

For switched reluctance motors, the number of rotor poles is typically less than the number of stator poles, which minimizes torque ripple and prevents the poles from all aligning simultaneously-a position which cannot generate torque.