Robust Tracking Control of a Switched Reluctance Motor Turning and Inertial Load

This paper uses a hand- crafted approach to develop a tracking controller for a switched reluctance (SR) motor turning as inertial load. Using nonlinear models of the motor and load, a global uniform ultimate boundedness (CUUR) stability [1] result for the motor position tracking error is obtained. The control is robust with respect to parametric uncertainty and additive bounded disturbances throughout the entire electromechanical system. The control requires measurement of the motor position, velocity, and the per phase winding currests. The control mathodology represents a specific application of the theoretical results developed in [2].