Paper Info
Title
A prototype controller for variable reluctance motors
Abstract
Abstract- A three-level cascade structure is proposed for the control of a variable reluctance (VR) motor. In order to deal with the highly nonlinear behavior of VR motors, the controlling system includes two variable-structure controllers for current and velocity loops as well as an intermediate torque-sharing compensator. The intermediate compensator has been designed by means of nonlinear optimization techniques in order to reduce the torque ripple and to get the maximum motor velocity. The proposed controller has been validated through extensive sim- ulation experiments. The architecture of a prototype controller is presented and the actual performance measured on a VR motor is discussed in comparison with simulations. The results show practical feasibility and good performance of the proposed controller, which is also suitable for a very simple and quite inexpensive fully hardware implementation. NOMENCLATURE
Year
DOI
Venue
1996
10.1109/41.481427
Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions
Keywords
Field
DocType
cascade control,control system analysis,electric current control,machine control,machine theory,nonlinear control systems,optimal control,reluctance motors,variable structure systems,velocity control,architecture,current loop,motor velocity,nonlinear behavior,nonlinear optimization techniques,performance,simulation,three-level cascade structure,torque ripple,torque-sharing compensator,variable reluctance motors,variable-structure controllers,velocity loop
Switched reluctance motor,Control theory,Magnetic reluctance,Control theory,Electric machine,Control engineering,Engineering,Open-loop controller,Torque ripple,Machine control,Electronic speed control
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
43
1
0278-0046
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bianco, C.G.L.100.34
A. Tonielli213033.43
Fabio Filicori34216.73