Reducing Energy Consumption and Increasing the Performances of AC Motor Drives Using Fuzzy PI Speed Controllers

Alternating current electric drives are widely used in many commercial applications. Increasing energy efficiency and improving the quality of regulation are major goals. The speed control structure of the induction machine with indirect vector control with rotor flux orientation and the speed control structure of the permanent magnet synchronous machine with vector control with rotor flux orientation are taken into account. The control structures were modeled and simulated in Simulink. Different simulation regimes were made for different load torques and different parameters. Following the analyses performed, it was highlighted that the fuzzy regulation ensures the reduction of the energy consumption in transient states and the improvement in the quality indicators of the regulation. The fuzzy control systems are robust to the errors of identification of the machine parameters and to the effect of the disturbing load torque.

Implementation of an FPGA-Based Current Control and SVPWM ASIC with Asymmetric Five-Segment Switching Scheme for AC Motor Drives

This paper presents the design and implementation of an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for a discrete-time current control and space-vector pulse-width modulation (SVPWM) with asymmetric five-segment switching scheme for AC motor drives. As compared to a conventional three-phase symmetric seven-segment switching SVPWM scheme, the proposed method involves five-segment two-phase switching in each switching period, so the inverter switching times and power loss can be reduced by 33%. In addition, the produced PWM signal is asymmetric with respect to the center-symmetric triangular carrier wave, and the voltage command signal from the discrete-time current control output can be given in each half period of the PWM switching time interval, hence increasing the system bandwidth and allowing the motor drive system with better dynamic response. For the verification of the proposed SVPWM modulation scheme, the current control function in the stationary reference frame is also included in the design of the ASIC. The design is firstly verified by using PSIM simulation tool. Then, a DE0-nano field programmable gate array (FPGA) control board is employed to drive a 300W permanent-magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) for the experimental verification of the ASIC.

Unidirectional voltage converter for battery electric vehicle ultrafast charger

This paper proposes the use of a frequency converter used in the AC motor drives to build a fast charging battery converter for electric vehicles (EV). The possibility of using semiconductor integrated modules with two-level inverters and diode rectifiers for the construction of high power voltage DC/DC converters has been demonstrated. The DC voltage of the EV battery during charging is obtained by rectifying the three-phase voltage of the PWM inverter. A 600 V DC microgrid was used to power the inverter. Simulation tests of the DC/DC converter model were carried out. The results of simulation tests were verified experimentally on a laboratory stand.

Vector Control Algorithm Based on Different Current Control Switching Techniques for Ac Motor Drives

A comparative analysis of vector control scheme based on different current control switching pulses (HC, SPWM, DPWM and SVPWM) for the speed response of motor drive is analysed in this paper. The control system using different switching techniques, are comparatively simulated and analysed. Ac motor drives are progressively used in high-performance application industries due to small size, efficient performance, robust to torque response and high power to size ratio. A mathematical model of ac motor drives is presented in order to explain the numerical theory of motor drives. The vector control technique is utilized for efficient speed control of ac motor drive based on independent torque and air gap flux control. The study compares the total harmonic distortion contents of phase currents of ac motor drive and speed response in each case. The simulation result shows that total harmonic distortion across the phase current in SVPWM is less as compared to other switching techniques while the rise time in speed response across SVPWM technique is faster as compared to other switching methods. The simulation result of ac motor drives speed control is demonstrated in Matlab/Simulink 2018b.