Design trends and trade-offs for sensorless operation of switched reluctance motor drives

Author

Per, Tom ; Husain, Iqbal ; Elbuluk, Malik

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Akron Univ., OH, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1995

fDate

8-12 Oct 1995

Firstpage

278

Abstract

The aligned to unaligned phase inductance ratio and the number of stator and rotor poles strongly affect the resolution of indirect rotor position sensing methods for switched reluctance motor (SRM) drives. A higher inductance ratio increases the resolution, while higher number of phases increases the available sampling window for indirect position sensing. However, these requirements are conflicting design criteria for an SRM. In this paper, the design considerations and trade-offs for sensorless SRM drives are analyzed by computer simulations. The existing indirect position sensing methods and their applicability for various SRM drives are also discussed

Keywords

control system analysis computing; design engineering; electric machine analysis computing; machine control; machine theory; position control; reluctance motor drives; rotors; stators; switching circuits; SRM drives; conflicting design criteria; design trade-offs; design trends; indirect rotor position sensing methods; rotor poles; sampling window; sensorless operation; stator poles; switched reluctance motor drives; unaligned phase inductance ratio; Drives; Inductance; Phase measurement; Position measurement; Reluctance machines; Reluctance motors; Rotors; Servomotors; Stators; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industry Applications Conference, 1995. Thirtieth IAS Annual Meeting, IAS '95., Conference Record of the 1995 IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

0197-2618

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3008-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IAS.1995.530312

Filename

530312