摘要 |
An example rotating electrical machine includes a stator assembly, a rotor, and a controller. The stator assembly has two or more stator control coils and is centered on a Z axis that is perpendicular to an XY plane defined by mutually perpendicular X and Y axes. The rotor is configured to rotate about a rotational axis that is nominally collinear with the Z axis and has a magnet array that provides a magnetic field configured to pass through the stator control coils. The controller is configured to control the stator control coils to selectively generate magnetic fields that interact with the magnetic field of the magnet array to: control rotation of the rotor about the second axis; and one or both of: control translation of the rotor in the XY plane; and control rotation of the rotor about the X axis and the Y axis.
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