Control Methods for Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Reluctance Motor Drives

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School of Electrical Engineering | Doctoral thesis (article-based) | Defence date: 2019-11-15
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2019

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Sähkötekniikan ja automaation laitos
Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation

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en

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78 + app. 78

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Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS, 187/2019

Abstract

This thesis deals with control methods for synchronous motors with a magnetically salient rotor, such as the synchronous reluctance motors, interior permanent-magnet synchronous motors, and permanent-magnet synchronous reluctance motors. An exact hold-equivalent discrete-time motor model is developed. The motor model is then used in the design and analysis of current controllers and flux observers. A state-feedback current controller with an integral action and reference feedforward is designed directly in the discrete-time domain. The time delays are inherently taken into account in the design. The proposed current control design improves the dynamic performance and robustness especially at high stator frequencies. Furthermore, the saturation characteristics can be properly included in the controller. For sensorless control, a speed-adaptive full-order flux observer is designed and analyzed directly in the discrete-time domain. The proposed sensorless control system enables the operation at very low sampling to fundamental frequency ratios (below ten). For energy-efficient optimal control, a computation method for the control look-up tables is developed. When combined with an identification method for the magnetic model, the proposed method enables the plug-and-play startup of an unknown motor. The developed method is capable of producing optimal references along the maximum torque-per-ampere locus, at the current limit, at the maximum torque-per-volt limit, and in the field-weakening region. Apart from the current controllers, a feedback-linearization stator-flux-oriented control method and its systematic design procedure is developed. Stator-flux-oriented control enables the use of much simpler reference calculation methods. The simplicity of stator-flux-oriented control is tempting for many applications, while better control performance can be achieved with the proposed discrete-time control designs. The developed control methods can be applied in hybrid or electric vehicles, heavy-duty working machines, and industrial applications. The designed controllers and flux observers are experimentally evaluated using a 6.7-kW synchronous reluctance motor drive and a 2.2-kW interior permanent-magnet synchronous motor drive.

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Hinkkanen, Marko, Prof., Aalto University, Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Finland

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Hinkkanen, Marko, Prof., Aalto University, Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Finland

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discrete-time current control, feedback-linearization, field-weakening, maximum torque-per-ampere, maximum torque-per-volt, permanent-magnet synchronous reluctance motor, plug-and-play startup, sensorless control, stator-flux-oriented control

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  • [Publication 1]: M. Hinkkanen, H.A.A. Awan, Z. Qu, T. Tuovinen, F. Briz. Current control for synchronous motor drives: Direct discrete-time pole-placement design. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 2016, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 1530–1541.
    Full text in Acris/Aaltodoc: http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:aalto-201805222577.DOI:
  • [Publication 2]: H.A.A. Awan, S.E. Saarakkala, M. Hinkkanen. Flux-linkage-based current control of saturated synchronous motors. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 2019, vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 4762–4769.
    Full text in Acris/Aaltodoc: http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:aalto-201906203923
    DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2019.2919258 View at publisher
  • [Publication 3]: H.A.A. Awan, M. Hinkkanen, R. Bojoi, G. Pellegrino. Stator-flux-oriented control of synchronous motors: A systematic design procedure. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 2019, vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 4811–4820.
    Full text in Acris/Aaltodoc: http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:aalto-201909205390
    DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2019.2927316 View at publisher
  • [Publication 4]: M. Hinkkanen, S.E. Saarakkala, H.A.A. Awan, E. Mölsä, T. Tuovinen. Observers for sensorless synchronous motor drives: Framework for design and analysis. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 2018, vol. 54, no. 6, pp. 6090–6100.
    Full text in Acris/Aaltodoc: http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:aalto-201808084535.DOI:
  • [Publication 5]: H.A.A. Awan, T. Tuovinen, S.E. Saarakkala, M. Hinkkanen. Discrete-time observer design for sensorless synchronous motor drives. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 2016, vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 3968–3979.
    Full text in Acris/Aaltodoc: http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:aalto-201805222489
    DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2016.2572105 View at publisher
  • [Publication 6]: H.A.A. Awan, Z. Song, S.E. Saarakkala, M. Hinkkanen. Optimal torque control of saturated synchronous motors: Plug-and-play method. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 2018, vol. 54, no. 6, pp. 6110–6120.
    Full text in Acris/Aaltodoc: http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:aalto-201808084518
    DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2018.2862410 View at publisher

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