The switched reluctance motor exhibits desirable features including simple construction, high reliability and low cost.

Recently, following the development of power electronics [1]-[5], the interest in SRM has risen year after year, even though it also has some bad performance, for example low power factor, large torque ripple and that the rotor position must be detected. So, the optimum design of the SRM has not been clarified fully [3]. Several papers have reported on the analysis of SRM [6][11]. Most of the papers present only the static characteristics. In this paper, we present a new method for modeling the SRM and for calculation of dynamic characteristics of SRM. Based on this, the analysis of dynamic characteristics of SRM can be done using MATLAB or general-purpose circuit simulation program SPICE. The reluctance of SRM is variable following the rotor position; the FEM analysis was applied to estimate the inductance depending on the rotor position. The calculated results quantitatively agree with the experimental ones. For optimum design, however, it is necessary to improve the preciseness of the calculated values. In this paper, a new method for SRM is presented. The schematic diagram of the SRM used in this paper was shown in Fig.1. The pole number of the stator and the rotor are 6 and 4, respectively. The core material is MU3 and let the relative permeability be 1000 [12]. Fig2 is the driving circuit of the SRM. A three phase transistor converter is used for the circuit.