High performance Reluctance Synchronous Motor drive using Field Oriented Control

This paper is presenting a study for the ability to improve the performance of Reluctance Synchronous Motors (RSM) using Field Oriented Control. For this purpose the three-phase RSM is modeled in a rotor (d-q) reference frame. The Field Oriented Control is then developed for Reluctance Synchronous Motor in a rotating (d-q) reference frame attached to rotor flux and applied to the machine model. The results obtained shows that the Field Oriented Control have proved to be a powerful control strategy with the Reluctance Synchronous Motor, giving better performance and faster torque transient (i.e. less torque settling time). Field Oriented Control has also proved its ability to improve the motor stability and keeps its synchronism at high loading conditions.