40 research outputs found
Simplified Model Predictive Current Control for Surface- Mounted Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Motor Drives with Adaptive Duty Modulation
Parameter control and cost minimization are among the significant aspects of model predictive current controllers. However, with the conventional control scheme of fixed switching vector actuation, susceptibility to uncontrolled current ripples remains a primary concern. This paper presents a simplified approach of model predictive current controller baed on adaptive duty modulation for the surface-mounted permanent-magnet synchronous motor (SPMSM). In this method, the implementation of two successive synthesized voltage vectors adopts the adpative soft-switching combination in each control period. Experimental results validate performance improvement and optimize current predictive accuracy
Simplified Model Predictive Current Control for Surface- Mounted Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Motor Drives with Adaptive Duty Modulation
Parameter control and cost minimization are among the significant aspects of model predictive current controllers. However, with the conventional control scheme of fixed switching vector actuation, susceptibility to uncontrolled current ripples remains a primary concern. This paper presents a simplified approach of model predictive current controller baed on adaptive duty modulation for the surface-mounted permanent-magnet synchronous motor (SPMSM). In this method, the implementation of two successive synthesized voltage vectors adopts the adpative soft-switching combination in each control period. Experimental results validate performance improvement and optimize current predictive accuracy
Advances in Rotating Electric Machines
It is difficult to imagine a modern society without rotating electric machines. Their use has been increasing not only in the traditional fields of application but also in more contemporary fields, including renewable energy conversion systems, electric aircraft, aerospace, electric vehicles, unmanned propulsion systems, robotics, etc. This has contributed to advances in the materials, design methodologies, modeling tools, and manufacturing processes of current electric machines, which are characterized by high compactness, low weight, high power density, high torque density, and high reliability. On the other hand, the growing use of electric machines and drives in more critical applications has pushed forward the research in the area of condition monitoring and fault tolerance, leading to the development of more reliable diagnostic techniques and more fault-tolerant machines. This book presents and disseminates the most recent advances related to the theory, design, modeling, application, control, and condition monitoring of all types of rotating electric machines
DIRECT AND INDIRECT TORQUE CONTROL OF UNBALANCED PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS MACHINES
Electrical machines may exhibit various types of imbalances and undesirable harmonic distortions. These may increase the torque and flux ripples, acoustic noise, unbalanced three-phase currents, while also reducing efficiency. These types of imbalances and undesirable harmonic distortions cannot be controlled by using the conventional indirect torque control (ITC) and direct torque control (DTC) strategies. For some high-performance motion control, such as precision machine tools, robotics, and servo drives, low torque ripples are, however, obligatory. Nowadays, more studies have been conducted on the ITC strategy to control undesired current harmonics, such as double synchronic reference frames (DSRF), resonant controller, second order generalized integration, and reference current generation. Such strategies, however, can rarely be applied to DTC strategy.
In this research, the influence of asymmetric winding impedances, unbalanced back-EMF, and inverter nonlinearity in three-phase surface-mounted PMSMs has been systematically investigated by employing space vector modulations (SVM) based ITC and DTC strategies. This thesis firstly presents a modified ITC strategy by extracting the positive and negative sequence components in the stationary abc frame, and then a coordination transformation is used to control the machine in DSRF. This strategy provides faster dynamic response when compared with the conventional DSRF strategy, since the filters and the decoupling network are not required.
Due to the lack of research regarding the DTC strategy under unbalanced conditions, this research investigates and proposes modified cascaded and parallel DTC-SVM strategies. The conventional cascaded DTC strategy is investigated under balanced and unbalanced conditions. Then, a modified control strategy is introduced by adding two compensators (the conventional PI-controller with a resonant controller, and the use of the negative- and positive-sequence voltage vectors) to suppress the 2nd harmonic components in the torque and stator flux linkage.
Furthermore, for parallel DTC-SVM, the compensation of the 2nd and 6th harmonic components is investigated by means of either a resonant controller or an adaptive filter. In addition to the simplicity of the proposed strategies, these may also be able to significantly reduce the torque and flux ripples, while maintaining the merit of the fast dynamic response of the conventional DTC strategy even under variable fundamental frequency. Moreover, it has been proven that the compensation from using a resonant controller or an adaptive filter is parameter independent. Thus, regardless of unbalanced conditions, an effective torque ripple minimisation can still be achieved by properly selecting the dominant harmonic compensation
Advances and Technologies in High Voltage Power Systems Operation, Control, Protection and Security
The electrical demands in several countries around the world are increasing due to the huge energy requirements of prosperous economies and the human activities of modern life. In order to economically transfer electrical powers from the generation side to the demand side, these powers need to be transferred at high-voltage levels through suitable transmission systems and power substations. To this end, high-voltage transmission systems and power substations are in demand. Actually, they are at the heart of interconnected power systems, in which any faults might lead to unsuitable consequences, abnormal operation situations, security issues, and even power cuts and blackouts. In order to cope with the ever-increasing operation and control complexity and security in interconnected high-voltage power systems, new architectures, concepts, algorithms, and procedures are essential. This book aims to encourage researchers to address the technical issues and research gaps in high-voltage transmission systems and power substations in modern energy systems
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High performance disturbance observer based control system design for permanent magnet synchronous AC machine applications
This thesis was submitted for the award of Doctor of Philosophy and was awarded by Brunel University LondonAn electrical machine is one of the main workforces in different industries and serves them in various applications. Machine drive control design involves many technical issues for efficient and robust exploitation. Over several decades, Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) is getting preferred for industrial applications over its counterpart Squirrel Cage Induction Motor (SCIM) drive, because of their higher efficiency, power density, and higher torque to inertia ratio.
In the prospective that PMSM drives are considered the drives of the future, there are still technical challenges and issues related to PMSM control. Many studies have been devoted to PMSM control in the past, but there are still some open research areas that bring worldwide researchers’ interests back to PMSM drive control. One of the approaches that may facilitate better performance, higher efficiency, and robust and reliable work of the control system is the disturbance observer-based control (DOBC) with linear and nonlinear output feedback control for PM synchronous machine applications. DOBC is adopted due to its ability to reject external and internal disturbances with improving tracking performance in the variable speed wind energy conversion system (WECS) to maximize power extraction. The high order disturbance observer (HODO) is utilized to estimate the aerodynamic torque-based wind speed without the use of a traditional anemometer, which reduces the overall cost and improves the reliability of the whole system. Also, this method has been designed to improve the angular shaft speed tracking of the PMSM system under load torque disturbance and speed variations.
The model-based linear and nonlinear feedback control are used in the proposed control systems. The sliding mode control (SMC) with switching output feedback control law and integral SMC with linear feedback and state-dependent Riccati equation (SDRE) based approaches have been designed for the systems. The SDRE control accounts for the nonlinear multivariable structure of the WECS and is approximated with Taylor series expansion terms. The chattering inherited from SMC is eliminated by the continuous approximation technique. The sliding mode is guaranteed by eliminating the reaching mode in the proposed integral SMC. The model-free cascaded linear feedback control system based on the proportional-integral (PI) controllers use a back-calculation algorithm anti-windup scheme. The proposed speed controllers are synthesized with HODO to compensate for the external disturbance, model uncertainty, noise, and modelling errors. Moreover, servomechanism-based SDRE control, a near-optimal control system is designed to suppress the model uncertainty and noise without the use of disturbance observers.
The proposed control systems for PMSM speed regulation have demonstrated a significant improvement in the angular shaft speed-tracking performance at the transients. Their performances have been tested under speed, load torque variations, and model uncertainty. For example, HODO-based SMC with switching output feedback control law (SOFCL) has demonstrated improvement by more than 78% than the PI-PI control system of the PMSM. The performance of the HODOs-based Integral SMC with SDRE nonlinear feedback is improved by 80.5% under external disturbance, model uncertainty, and noise than Integral SMC with linear feedback in the WECS. The HODO-based SDRE control with servomechanism has shown an 80.2% improvement of mean absolute percentage error under disturbances than Integral SMC with linear feedback in the WECS. The PMSM speed tracking performance of the proposed HODO-based discrete-time PI-PI control system with back-calculation algorithm anti-windup scheme is improved by 87.29% and 90.2% in the speed commands and load torque disturbance variations scenarios respectively. The simulations for testing the proposed control system of the PMSM system and WECS have been implemented in Matlab/Simulink environment. The PMSM speed control experimental results have been obtained with Lucas-Nuelle DSP-based rapid control prototyping kit.Center for International Program “Bolashak” of the Ministry of Education and Science Republic of Kazakhsta
The investigation of electromagnetic radial force and associated vibration in permanent magnet synchronous machines
The rising public awareness of climate change and urban air pollution has been one
of the key drivers for transport electrification. Such trend drastically accelerates the
quest for high-power-and-torque-density electric drive systems. The rare-earth permanent
magnet synchronous machine, with its excellent steady-state and dynamic
characteristics, has been the ideal candidate for these applications. Specifically, the
fractional-slot and concentrated-winding configuration is widely adopted due to its
distinctive merits such as short end winding, low torque pulsation, and high efficiency.
The vibration and the associated acoustic noise become one of the main
parasitic issues of high-performance permanent magnet synchronous drives. These
undesirable features mainly arise from mechanical connection failure, imperfect assembly,
torque pulsation, and electromagnetic radial and axial force density waves.
The high-power-and-torque-density requirement will only be ultimately fulfilled by
the reduction of both electromagnetic active material and passive support structure.
This results in inflated electromagnetic force density inside the electric machine.
Besides, the sti.ness of the machine parts can be compromised and the resultant
natural frequencies are significantly brought down. Therefore, the vibration and
acoustic noise that are associated with the electromagnetic radial and axial force
density waves become a burden for large deployment of these drives.
This study is mainly dedicated to the investigation of the electromagnetic radial
forced density and its associated vibration and acoustic noise in radial-flux permanent
magnet synchronous machines. These machines are usually powered by voltage
source inverter with pulse width modulation techniques and various control strategies.
Consequently, the vibration problem not only lies on the permanent magnet
synchronous machine but also highly relates to its drive and controller. Generally,
the electromagnetic radial force density and its relevant vibration can be divided
into low-frequency and high-frequency components based on their origins. The
low-frequency electromagnetic radial force density waves stem from the magnetic
field components by the permanent magnets and armature reaction of fundamental
and phase-belt current harmonic components, while the high-frequency ones are
introduced by the interactions between the main low-frequency and sideband highfrequency
magnetic field components.
Both permanent magnets and armature reaction current are the main sources of
magnetic field in electric machines. Various drive-level modeling techniques are first reviewed, explored, and developed to evaluate the current harmonic components
of the permanent magnet synchronous machine drive. Meanwhile, a simple
yet e.ective analytical model is derived to promptly estimate the sideband current
harmonic components in the drive with both sinusoidal and space-vector pulse
width modulation techniques. An improved analytical method is also proposed to
predict the magnetic field from permanent magnets in interior permanent magnet
synchronous machines. Moreover, a universal permeance model is analytically developed
to obtain the corresponding armature-reaction magnetic field components.
With the permanent magnet and armature-reaction magnetic field components, the
main electromagnetic radial force density components can be identified and estimated
based on Maxwell stress tensor theory.
The stator tooth structure has large impacts on both electromagnetic radial force
density components and mechanical vibration behaviors. The stator tooth modulation
e.ect has been comprehensively demonstrated and explained by both finite
element analysis and experimental results. Analytical models of such e.ect are developed
for prompt evaluation and insightful revelation. Based on the proposed
models, multi-physics approaches are proposed to accurately predict low-frequency
and high-frequency electromagnetic radial vibration. Such method is quite versatile
and applicable for both integral-slot and fractional-slot concentrated-winding
permanent magnet synchronous machines. Comprehensive experimental results are
provided to underpin the validity of the proposed models and methods.
This study commences on the derivations of the drive parameters such as torque angle,
modulation index, and current harmonic components from circuit perspective
and further progresses to evaluate and decouple the air-gap magnetic field components
from field perspective. It carries on to dwell on the analytical estimations of
the main critical electromagnetic radial force density components and stator tooth
modulation e.ect. Based on the stator mechanical structure, the corresponding electromagnetic
radial vibration and acoustic noise can be accurately predicted. Various
analytical models have been developed throughout this study to provide a systematic
tool for quick and e.ective investigation of electromagnetic radial force density,
the associated vibration and acoustic noise in permanent magnet synchronous machine
drive. They have all been rigorously validated by finite element analysis and
experimental results. Besides, this study reveals not only a universal approach for
electromagnetic radial vibration analysis but also insightful correlations from both
machine and drive perspectives
Field weakening and sensorless control solutions for synchronous machines applied to electric vehicles.
184 p.La polución es uno de los mayores problemas en los países industrializados. Por ello, la electrificación del transporte por carretera está en pleno auge, favoreciendo la investigación y el desarrollo industrial. El desarrollo de sistemas de propulsión eficientes, fiables, compactos y económicos juega un papel fundamental para la introducción del vehículo eléctrico en el mercado.Las máquinas síncronas de imanes permanentes son, a día de hoy la tecnología más empleada en vehículos eléctricos e híbridos por sus características. Sin embargo, al depender del uso de tierras raras, se están investigando alternativas a este tipo de máquina, tales como las máquinas de reluctancia síncrona asistidas por imanes. Para este tipo de máquinas síncronas es necesario desarrollar estrategias de control eficientes y robustas. Las desviaciones de parámetros son comunes en estas máquinas debido a la saturación magnética y a otra serie de factores, tales como tolerancias de fabricación, dependencias en función de la temperatura de operación o envejecimiento. Las técnicas de control convencionales, especialmente las estrategias de debilitamiento de campo dependen, en general, del conocimiento previo de dichos parámetros. Si no son lo suficientemente robustos, pueden producir problemas de control en las regiones de debilitamiento de campo y debilitamiento de campo profundo. En este sentido, esta tesis presenta dos nuevas estrategias de control de debilitamiento de campo híbridas basadas en LUTs y reguladores VCT.Por otro lado, otro requisito indispensable para la industria de la automoción es la detección de faltas y la tolerancia a fallos. En este sentido, se presenta una nueva estrategia de control sensorless basada en una estructura PLL/HFI híbrida que permite al vehículo continuar operando de forma pseudo-óptima ante roturas en el sensor de posición y velocidad de la máquina eléctrica. En esta tesis, ambas propuestas se validan experimentalmente en un sistema de propulsión real para vehículo eléctrico que cuenta con una máquina de reluctancia síncrona asistidas por imanes de 51 kW
Investigation of novel multi-layer spoke-type ferrite interior permanent magnet machines
The permanent magnet synchronous machines have been attracting more and
more attention due to the advantages of high torque density, outstanding
efficiency and maturing technologies. Under the urges of mandatory energy
efficiency requirements, they are considered as the most potential candidates to
replace the comparatively low-efficient induction machines which dominate the
industrial market. However, most of the high performance permanent magnet
machines are based on high cost rare-earth materials. Thus, there will be huge
demands for low-cost high-performance permanent magnet machines.
Ferrite magnet is inexpensive and abundant in supply, and is considered as the
most promising alternative to achieve the goal of low cost and high
performance. In consideration of the low magnetic energy, this thesis explored
the recent developments and possible ideas of ferrite machines, and proposed
a novel multi-layer spoke-type interior permanent magnet configuration
combining the advantages of flux focusing technique and multi-layer structure.
With comparable material cost to induction machines, the proposed ferrite
magnet design could deliver 27% higher power with 2-4% higher efficiency with
exactly the same frame size. Based on the data base of International Energy
Agency (IEA), electricity consumed by electric machines reached 7.1PWh in
2006 [1]. Considering that induction machines take up 90% of the overall
industrial installation, the potential energy savings is enormous.
This thesis contributes in five key aspects towards the investigation and design
of low-cost high-performance ferrite permanent magnet machines. Firstly,
accurate analytical models for the multi-layer configurations were developed
with the consideration of spatial harmonics, and provided effective yet simple
way for preliminary design. Secondly, the influence of key design parameters on
performance of the multi-layer ferrite machines were comprehensively
investigated, and optimal design could be carried out based on the insightful
knowledge revealed. Thirdly, systematic investigation of the demagnetization
mechanism was carried out, focusing on the three key factors: armature MMF,
intrinsic coercivity and working temperature. Anti-demagnetization designs were presented accordingly to reduce the risk of performance degradation and
guarantee the safe operation under various loading conditions. Then,
comparative study was carried out with a commercial induction machine for
verification of the superior performance of the proposed ferrite machine. Without
loss of generality, the two machines had identical stator cores, same rotor
diameter and stacking length. Under the operating condition of same stator
copper loss, the results confirmed the superior performance of the ferrite
machine in terms of torque density, power factor and efficiency. Lastly,
mechanical design was discussed to reduce the cost of mass production, and
the experimental effort on the prototype machine validates the advantageous
performance as well as the analytical and FEA predictions