TORQUE CAPABILITY MANAGEMENT FOR PASSIVELY DAMPED HANDWHEEL ACTUATORS

A method for controlling a motor drive with passive damping includes: shorting a set of windings of a motor to define a shorted set of windings; determining a short circuit current in the shorted set of windings; and commanding, based on an initial torque command and based on the short circuit current in the shorted set of windings, an inverter to apply an output voltage to an active set of windings of the motor and thereby causing the motor to generate an output torque that compensates for a braking torque caused by the shorted set of windings.