Position Sensorless Control of Switched Reluctance Generator for Wind Energy Conversion

Author

Zhang, Xulong ; Tan, Guojun ; Kuai, Songyan ; Wang, Qihu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Electr. Eng., China Univ. of Min. & Technol., Xuzhou, China

fYear

2010

fDate

28-31 March 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper presents a novel sensorless control system of switched reluctance generator (SRG) in order to reduce cost, simplify system structure and increase reliability. Considering nonlinear characteristics of SRG and robustness of sliding mode observer (SMO), sensorless control method of SRG based on SMO is proposed and analyzed. For wind energy conversion system (WECS), a voltage-source PWM inverter is used to make power output of SRG connect to the grid (or ac load). The SRG phase current was regulated by current chopping control method (CCC). An 18.5 kW three-phase 12/8 SRG experimental prototype was constructed and wind turbine mover was emulated using a DC motor drive. Test results using dual TMS320F2812 DSP as control core verified validity and feasibility of the proposed system.

Keywords

DC motor drives; PWM invertors; digital signal processing chips; electric current control; position control; reluctance generators; robust control; sensorless machine control; variable structure systems; wind power plants; wind turbines; DC motor drive; TMS320F2812 DSP; current chopping control method; position sensorless control; sliding mode observer; switched reluctance generator; voltage-source PWM inverter; wind energy conversion; wind energy conversion system; wind turbine; Costs; Power system reliability; Prototypes; Pulse width modulation inverters; Reluctance generators; Robust control; Sensorless control; Sliding mode control; Voltage; Wind energy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Engineering Conference (APPEEC), 2010 Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4812-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4813-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APPEEC.2010.5449249

Filename

5449249