Torque ripple reduction in direct torque controlled five-phase induction motor using modified five-level torque comparator

The five-phase induction motor inherently has the minimal torque ripple. However, when it is controlled by direct torque control (DTC) technique, the torque ripple increases due to the presence of a hysteresis torque comparator. The classical five-level torque comparator is presented in the previous literatures to control the torque ripple. However, this comparator has the drawback of wrong selection of zero voltage vectors inside the inner band on the positive side of the comparator, which enables the torque ripple to increase and dc-link utilization to decrease. In this paper, in order to reduce the torque ripple and to increase the dc-link utilization, a modified five-level torque comparator is proposed, which selects either medium or small voltage vectors instead of zero voltage vectors inside the inner band on the positive side of the comparator. In addition to torque ripple reduction and improvement in dc-link utilization, the proposed comparator significantly improves the quality of phase current. All the available 32 voltage vectors are selected through the proposed five-level torque comparator based on the location of x–y stator flux in order to eliminate the x–y stator flux so as to obtain reduced distortion in the phase current. By employing all the available voltage vectors, the freedom of utilization of all voltage vectors in the five-phase induction motor DTC drive is availed. The proposed five-level torque comparator is compared to its classical five-level counterpart through simulation and experimental results in order to validate the proposed DTC strategy.     

A current ripple reduction of a high-speed miniature brushless direct current motor using instantaneous voltage control

High-speed miniature brushless direct current motor (BLDCM) is used in robots and medical applications because of its high-torque and high-speed characteristics. When compared with the general BLDCM, a high-speed miniature BLDCM has a low electrical time-constant. The current and torque ripple are very high when compared with the conventional pulse-width modulation (PWM) control scheme in the conduction period because of the inherent electrical characteristics. The authors propose a simple instantaneous source voltage and phase current control for torque ripple reduction of a high-speed miniature BLDCM. To reduce the switching current ripple, instantaneously controlled source voltage is supplied to the inverter system according to the motor speed and the load torque. In addition, a fast hysteresis current controller can keep the phase current within a limited band. Computer simulations and experimental results up to 40 000 rpm show the effectiveness and verification of the proposed control scheme.     

Experimental determination of mechanical parameters in sensorless vector-controlled induction motor drive

High-performance industrial drives widely employ induction motors with position sensorless vector control (SLVC). The state-of-the-art SLVC is first reviewed in this paper. An improved design procedure for current and flux controllers is proposed for SLVC drives when the inverter delay is significant. The speed controller design in such a drive is highly sensitive to the mechanical parameters of the induction motor. These mechanical parameters change with the load coupled. This paper proposes a method to experimentally determine the moment of inertia and mechanical time constant of the induction motor drive along with the load driven. The proposed method is based on acceleration and deceleration of the motor under constant torque, which is achieved using a sensorless vector-controlled drive itself. Experimental results from a 5-hp induction motor drive are presented.     

Analytical closed-form investigation of pwm inverter induction motor drive performance under dc bus voltage pulsation

The voltage unbalance conditions at the input rectifier stage of the AC?DC?AC rectifier-inverter fed induction motor drive is analysed. This unbalance can cause significant voltage harmonic of twice the line frequency 2f1 in the DC bus. This voltage ripple can have a degrading effect on the induction-machine performance characteristics. The authors present an analytical closed-form mathematical model and analysis of the impact of DC bus ripple voltage of the three-phase voltage source inverter with the space-vector PWM on the induction machine phase voltages, currents and torque pulsations. The analytical expressions for the voltage and current space vectors as a function of the DC bus voltage pulsation are derived. Using superposition, the separate parts of the motor currents can be determined. From the current space vectors, the torque behaviour is estimated, again as a function of DC link voltage pulsation. Next, it is shown that the DC link voltage ripple components may cause large torque pulsation. The proposed analytical method is based on the mixed p?z approach, enabling presentation of the results in lucid and closed form. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed analytical model, experimental results based on laboratory setup were obtained.     

Single-phase induction motor drive system using z-source inverter

Employing conventional three-phase inverter in variable speed single-phase drive suffers from limited maximum output voltage applied to motor or voltage utility factor (VUF). In this study, a z-source inverter (ZSI) has been used to drive a single-phase induction motor (SPIM). By the proposed topology, VUF and consequently torque speed characteristic of the single-phase motor is improved. The equations for employing ZSI in SPIM drive and modulation method are described. Results of two simulations using conventional inverter and ZSI are presented. The results show that using ZSI leads to an increase in motor electromagnetic torque compared to conventional three-phase inverter due to improved VUF. The experimental results confirm the theory and simulation.     

A Sliding Mode Flux-Linkage Controller With Integral Compensation for Switched Reluctance Motor

A novel flux-linkage controller using sliding mode technique with integral compensation (SM-I) is proposed for torque ripple minimization of a switched reluctance motor (SRM). The proposed SM-I controller inherits the advantages of proportion–integration (PI) and conventional SM controller. These make it feasible for the flux-linkage controller to reduce torque ripple by correctly selecting the flux ramps in the limit of available dc-link voltage. Moreover, since the controller is not model-based, it avoids the complexity of mathematical modeling and is easily implemented. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed controller performs better and can be used as an alternative for nonlinear SRM drive systems.      

Optimisation techniques for a hysteresis current controller to minimise torque ripple in switched reluctance motors

The switched reluctance (SR) motor has many benefits owing to its low cost, simple design, rugged construction and comparatively high torque-to-mass ratio. Unlike DC and induction motors, the SR motor is intended to operate in deep magnetic saturation to increase the output power density. Because of the saturation effect and the variation of magnetic reluctance with respect to rotor position, all the relevant characteristics of the machine are highly non-linear functions of both rotor position and phase current. The ultimate outcome of all these non-linearities is that the generated torque contains significant ripples. The non-linearities in the SR motor have been extensively studied and many control strategies to reduce the generated torque ripples have been proposed in the literature. Modulation of phase current profile for generating torque in the SR motor with minimum ripples was the focus of most of the research. However, the main challenge to minimise the torque ripple is to design a current controller that is able to track the modulated phase current. In this work, new techniques to optimise the widely used hysteresis current controller are studied, and experimental verifications under closed-loop speed control with the modulated reference current data are presented. The experimental results indicate that the torque ripple is reduced to lie within 5% of the desired steady torque using the proposed optimisation techniques.     

永磁无刷直流电动机低脉动转矩研究

针对永磁无刷直流电动机在运行过程中存在明显脉动转矩的问题,研究了一种新结构低脉动转矩永磁无刷直流电动机。首先对普通永磁无刷直流电动机在电流换相、极弧系数小于1和电枢反应等3种因素下的脉动转矩进行了物理解析;然后以脉动转矩的变化规律为切入点,提出一种通过电机本体产生2个幅值相同、频率相同、相位互差180°电角度的脉动转矩,实现脉动转矩峰谷互补的抑制策略,并通过理论分析找到了脉动转矩峰谷互补的实现方法;最后研制了低脉动永磁无刷直流电动机及控制器,通过实验验证了脉动转矩抑制的有效性,与普通永磁无刷直流电动机相比,实验结果表明可以减少约70%的脉动转矩。     

Improving the performance of hysteresis direct torque control of IPMSM using active filter topology

This paper describes an active filter topology to improve the performance of hysteresis direct torque control (HDTC) of interior permanent magnet synchronous motor (IPMSM). The filter topology consists of an active filter and two RLC filters, and is connected to the main power circuit through a 1:1 transformer. The active filter is characterized by detecting the harmonics in the motor phase voltages and injecting equivalent harmonic voltages to produce almost sinusoidal voltage waveform to the motor terminals. The active filter uses hysteresis voltage controller while the motor main circuit uses hysteresis direct torque control. The simulation results of this combined control structure show considerable torque ripple reduction in the steady state range and adequate dynamic torque performance as well as considerable harmonic voltage and EMI noise reduction.     

Particle Swarm Design Optimization of ALA Rotor SynRM for Traction Applications

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is applied to the design optimization problem of axially laminated anisotropic (ALA) rotor synchronous reluctance motor (SynRM) drive. The objective of the optimization is to maximize the developed torque while minimizing the torque ripple as well as the Ohmic and core losses for traction applications. The number of flux paths, stator tooth width, and rotor flux path width define the 3-D search space for the optimization problem. An artificial intelligence modeling approach utilizing PSO and finite element-state space (FE-SS) models is used for the characterization and design optimization of a prototype ALA rotor SynRM drive for traction applications.      

Eighteen-sided polygonal voltage space-vector-based PWM control for an induction motor drive

An inverter scheme with 18-sided polygonal voltage space-vector structure is proposed for induction motor drive applications. An open-end winding configuration is used for the drive scheme. The motor is fed from one end with a conventional two-level inverter and from the other end with a three-level inverter, realised by cascading two conventional two-level inverters. The inverters are fed with asymmetrical DC-link voltages. A simple linear PWM control scheme up to 18-step mode is proposed, based only on the motor reference phase amplitudes. The proposed scheme gives an increased modulation range with the elimination of the 5th, 7th, 11th and 13th-order harmonics, for the entire modulation range, when compared with any conventional schemes. The absence of low-order harmonics gives nearly sinusoidal currents throughout the modulation range, and makes PWM control of voltage very simple, with low inverter switching frequencies, especially in the extreme modulation range.     

Performance investigation of modified hysteresis current controller with the permanent magnet synchronous motor drive

This study presents complete permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drive scheme along with mathematical model of motor and inverter. Speed proportional integral (PI) controller parameters are designed in discrete time domain. Stability of the speed controller is observed with respect to motor-load parameters. A modified hysteresis current control scheme is implemented for the drive and a detailed comparative study is done with conventional hysteresis current control scheme. Merits of the modified hysteresis current controller over conventional hysteresis current controller are investigated with both simulation and experimental results.     

Evolution of local to global minimum torque ripples of direct torque control for induction motor drives

This study discusses the evolution of the local minimum to global minimum torque ripples of the direct torque control of induction motor drives. This study will show that the previous minimum torque ripple design is not the global minimum but a local minimum root-mean-square (RMS) torque ripple. To show this, the study finds the optimal initial torque error, which makes the global minimum torque ripple, and then the related global minimum RMS torque ripple. Moreover, after finding the optimal initial torque error and its related global minimum RMS torque ripple, this study derives the evolution of the initial torque ripple error, under the local minimum RMS torque ripple control strategy. Furthermore, this study also proves that under the local minimum RMS torque ripple control strategy, the local minimum torque ripple will converge to the global minimum value.     

高性能模糊控制裹包机的感应电动机驱动系统的设计与实现

针对接缝式裹包机的交流调速系统控制精度较差的问题,提出了具有模糊控制器的有限周期控制的感应电动机驱动.由于转矩和磁通是由有限周期控制技术调节,能达到极快转矩响应.将模糊控制器应用于速度控制反馈环节中,使该驱动系统具有高自适应能力,且对参数和工作条件改变是非常的不灵敏.     

海洋二号卫星大惯量旋转部件干扰力矩抑制技术

海洋二号(HY-2A)卫星要求微波散射计和微波辐射计实现扫描过程中所产生的力矩波动不能影响卫星姿态稳定度。这两个载荷使用永磁同步电动机矢量控制,对负载直接驱动;通过电机本体采用齿槽转矩优化设计、采用固定角度计时法消除量化误差、相电流测量误差控制、逆变器死区补偿等措施,抑制转矩波动。通过电机本体和控制策略进行联合精确模型仿真,分析了系统的转矩波动。由在轨遥测数据分析可得,实现了大惯量旋转部件的精确控制。     

分布式驱动用永磁同步电机电磁转矩的解析计算

针对分布式驱动电动汽车车身阶次振动和车内噪声的主要振源—外转子表贴式永磁同步电机6k阶（ ）转矩波动,提出了一种分布式驱动用永磁同步电机电磁转矩的解析计算方法。基于永磁同步电机磁场畸变,对永磁磁极在均匀气隙中的径向分量进行了傅里叶级数分解,通过磁链、电压的计算,最终得到电磁转矩的解析解,为永磁同步电机的阶次振动与振源识别提供了理论基础。当不考虑电流谐波的影响时,对电磁转矩做了阶次分析,论证了由永磁体磁场谐波引起的电磁转矩波动频率是电源频率的6k倍频。最后,通过有限元计算验证了该解析计算结果。     

Implementation of feedback-linearization-modelled induction motor drive through an adaptive simplified neuro-fuzzy approach

A simple modified version of neuro-fuzzy controller (NFC) method based on single-input, reduced membership function in conjunction with an intuitive flux–speed decoupled feedback linearization (FBL) approach of induction motor (IM) model is presented in this paper. The proposed NFC with FBL remarkably suppresses the torque and speed ripple and shows improved performance. Further, the modified NFC is tuned by genetic algorithm (GA) approach for optimal performance of FBL-based IM drive. Moreover, the GA searches the optimal parameters of the simplified NFC in order to ensure the global convergence of error. The proposed simplified NFC integrates the concept of fuzzy logic and neural network structure like a conventional NFC, but it has the advantages of simplicity and improved computational efficiency over the conventional NFC as the single input introduced here is an error (speed and torque) instead of two inputs, error and change in error, as in the conventional NFC. This structure makes the proposed NFC robust and simple as compared with conventional NFC and thus, can be easily applied to real-time industry application. The proposed system incorporated with different control methods is also validated with extensive experimental results using DSP2812. The effectiveness of the proposed method using FBL of IM drive is investigated in simulation as well as in experiment with different working modes. It is evident from the comparative results that the system performance is not deteriorated using the proposed simple NFC as compared to the conventional NFC; rather, it shows superior performance over PI-controller-based drive.     

Modelling and analysis of an open-loop induction motor drive incorporating the effect of inverter dead-time

The objective of this paper is to study the influence of inverter dead-time on steady as well as dynamic operation of an open-loop induction motor drive fed from a voltage source inverter (VSI). Towards this goal, this paper presents a systematic derivation of a dynamic model for an inverter-fed induction motor, incorporating the effect of inverter dead-time, in the synchronously revolving dq reference frame. Simulation results based on this dynamic model bring out the impact of inverter dead-time on both the transient response and steady-state operation of the motor drive. For the purpose of steady-state analysis, the dynamic model of the motor drive is used to derive a steady-state model, which is found to be non-linear. The steady-state model shows that the impact of dead-time can be seen as an additional resistance in the stator circuit, whose value depends on the stator current. Towards precise evaluation of this dead-time equivalent resistance, an analytical expression is proposed for the same in terms of inverter dead-time, switching frequency, modulation index and load impedance. The notion of dead-time equivalent resistance is shown to simplify the solution of the non-linear steady-state model. The analytically evaluated steady-state solutions are validated through numerical simulations and experiments.     

永磁无刷直流电动机位置传感器精度对脉动转矩抑制效果的影响研究

采用峰谷互补方法对永磁无刷直流电动机的脉动转矩进行抑制时,2台电机脉动转矩波形的对称性和正弦性与抑制效果密切相关,而位置传感器的精度直接影响电机脉动转矩的波形特性.基于此,首先通过实验测定了2种位置传感器在电机运行时其输出信号的相位差、占空比和响应速度,并进行了分析.然后搭建实验平台测定了电机在2种位置传感器工况下脉动...     

电动车用永磁同步电机的转矩阶次特征分析

针对电动汽车车身阶次振动和车内噪声的主要振源—永磁同步电机的转矩波动,首先通过转矩测量试验测得了电机24阶以内的动态、高阶转矩信号,分析与揭示了永磁同步电机转矩信号的阶次特性现象;为解释该试验现象,从理论上建立了一种考虑非正弦永磁磁场分布、开槽、时间谐波电流的永磁同步电机转矩波动数学模型,获得了谐波转矩的解析解,预测了转矩波动的阶次与频率,进而提出了试验测量动态、高阶转矩信号的转速判据。试验研究和理论研究表明：永磁同步电机的转矩具有明显的阶次波动特征,主要阶次有h-1、2（h-1）、6i+h-1、 6i-h+1阶（h∈N,且由变频器决定;i∈N）;h次时间谐波电流将单独引起h-1、2（h-1）阶的转矩波动,h次时间谐波电流、非正弦永磁磁场分布、开槽将共同引起6i+h-1、6i-h+1阶的转矩波动。