GAME OVER!? - A.I. Designs New ELECTRIC Motor

An open source software title, Pico JK, has revealed a radically new

electric

motor

design combined with multi-material 3D printing. It features an interlocking coil and stator assembly, but will this really be the engine of the future and has artificial intelligence efficiently surpassed human engineering? The

motor

is made up of several different parts, a fixed stator and a moving part called a rotor. Magnetic flux is created between these two components and this allows rotational movement of the motor shaft, not all motors are the same and these components can be made of different materials, but we generally measure the efficiency and power density of a motor.

Efficiency is the relationship between input and output power, where density is the amount of power you can generate per volume. It is important to know these two measures because we can achieve very high efficiency. in many different types of motors with a maximum synchronous of 97%, however when it comes to power density there is a large variation between an induction motor and a permanent magnet motor, the ideal design is to maintain these high efficiencies but have something that's really light and capable. To carry high power densities, the Tashiba SuperC driver motor is a very good example of this because it is only a couple of feet long, but can handle megawatts of power, it has exponentially more power density than any other motor available, but requires cogenic cooling and highlights the importance of developing superconductors that can operate at higher temperatures, so materials science can be considered the biggest challenge in

electric

motors if a material can be developed that can control current losses Eddie in addition to having the ability to have a custom profile in 3D printing with a high power density, then he could have something revolutionary and applicable to electric motors, if you want really high power density and efficiency, you will usually have to use a design permanent magnet and this is problematic because, naturally, it is the most expensive component of the motor.

Companies are looking at different types of

designs

, such as the induction motor, to solve this problem. The induction motor is inherently cheaper, but there are some problems associated with this type of design, such as speed control, lower efficiencies at low loads and poor starting torque, hence an induction motor. The motor might make sense to drive pumps or compressors, but there have to be modifications for this to work in electric vehicles. We've initially seen this with the RM-less Tesla and now we're starting to see magnetless

designs

from ZF and Molly, but the induction motor is really attractive when it comes to software design and additive manufacturing and we're now starting to see copper coils 3D printed.

This was indeed a very intriguing development because laser powder bed 3D printing could build complex shapes and this can generate some pretty fascinating magnetic fields, it is also very interesting because now algorithmic engineering can customize the designs of the copper coils and this can now be officially manufactured. There is still the challenge of building the engine core. This component provides structural integrity to all components, which is why it is typically manufactured. From a set of steel metal laminations, today's soft magnetic cores could be produced using additive manufacturing, allowing greater freedom in geometric design and in turn potentially offering multi-axis cross-flux Kon motors and even spherical.

They showed us that you can do without the steel rolling process and gave us a strange radial type of true flow engine that is a bit of a hybrid, produces 800 horsepower, and weighs 86 pounds. SMCs may have the same potential in the fact that they can offer these 3D magnetic flux past the copper coils and then it can be configured a little differently and given a very strange motor design. Salto 71 released the open source software titled Pico GK Computational Engineering can now design electric motor parts with the slm solutions machine. We can print a multi-material powder deposition solution, the rotor and housing are printed from steel, but the coils are made from 3D printed copper.

This was really important because we are now starting to see some of the first custom data coil sets in the future. You could see soft magnetic composite materials Also incorporated with multiple laser scanners and drums, the machine can actively select the powder for each layer. Soft magnetic compounds will work very well in this process because they are essentially non-electrically conductive and also allow other material to be included for the cooling channels. The main drawback is that there is loss of conductivity with the 3D printed copper coil and this could be solved with additional heat treatment. What we do know is that laser-based fusion of powdered metal materials is indeed suitable for producing complex components. but it may not be economical to produce all the electric motors out there, so we definitely know that computational engineering is basically limitless, it's a matter of producing the actual object and thanks to multi-material additive manufacturing we are starting to see 3D printed motors and we have to do it.

What we always remember is that it's just a prototype and hasn't really been tested, so there are still a lot of questions about whether or not this will be the future production technique of engine design, but the most important thing is that I would like to know What do you think about all these developments, so leave a comment like you like the video and also make sure to subscribe to my channel.