A low cost, robust position sensorless control scheme for doubly-fed reluctance motor drives

Author

Liao, Yuefeng ; Sun, Chiping

Author_Institution

Emerson Motor Co St. Louis, MO, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

2-8 Oct 1993

Firstpage

437

Abstract

A position sensorless control algorithm for the newly-developed doubly-fed reluctance motor (DFRM) drives is presented. The control makes use of 60 Hz terminal variables, which are easy to acquire and process, for estimation and control of the torque angle of the machine, while the speed of the system is given in an open-loop mode. The control is robust and suitable for variable-speed pump-type application. With this control, the required VA rating of the pulse width modulated (PWM) power converter is only 50% of that of the DFRM motor, and the motor can be started with full load torque. This control scheme has been successfully implemented on a 2 hp DFRM drive

Keywords

machine control; position control; power convertors; pulse width modulation; reluctance motors; variable speed drives; 2 hp; 60 Hz; PWM; VA rating; algorithm; application; doubly-fed reluctance motor drives; open-loop mode; position sensorless control; power converter; robust; starting; torque angle; variable speed; Control systems; Costs; Open loop systems; Pulse width modulation; Pulse width modulation converters; Pumps; Reluctance motors; Robust control; Sensorless control; Torque control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, 1993., Conference Record of the 1993 IEEE

Conference_Location

Toronto, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1462-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IAS.1993.298960

Filename

298960