By ANJU K P Edited By Sarath S Nair M ODELING AND S PEED C ONTROL OF B RUSHLESS DC M OTOR D RIVES BY L OAD T ORQUE E STIMATION

OVERVIEW Introduction BLDC Advantages, disadvantages and applications of BLDC Modeling of BLDC and current control method Conclusions References

INTRODUCTION DC motors have many attractive properties such as high efficiency and linear torque speed characteristics. The control of dc motors is simple and their hardware is less. The main drawback of dc motor is the need of periodic maintenance Thus DC motors have been gradually replaced by the BLDC

The PI controller is usually employed in a BLDC motor control, which is simple in realization. But it is difficult to obtain the sufficiently high- performance applications. Used a feedforward compensation method through load torque estimation The estimated load disturbance by the state observer is compensated as the equivalent current The d-q transform of phase currents were possible by the Fourier series summation method This current control method was used to get compensation current of BLDC motor.

BLDC Permanent magnet synchronous motor, having permanent magnets on the rotor and trapezoidal shape back EMF. The BLDC motor employs a dc power supply switched to the stator phase windings of the motor by power devices, the switching sequence being determined from the rotor position. BLDC is driven by a three-phase inverter with, six-step commutation Commutation timing is determined by the rotor position, which can be detected by Hall sensors

A DVANTAGES, DISADVANTAGES AND APPLICATIONS OF BLDC ADVANTAGES More Efficient Less electrical energy is wasted Reduced Noise Longer Lifetime Reduced EM Interference. Torque, Voltage, And RPM Linearly Related DISADVANTAGES High cost More complex controller

APPLICATIONS They are having different power ratings from very small motors as used in hard disks to larger motors in electric vehicles hard drives, CD/DVD players, and PC cooling fans use BLDC motors. High power BLDC motors are found in electric vehicles and some industrial machinery. A number of electric bicycles use BLDC motors Certain HVAC systems, especially those featuring variable-speed and/or load modulation, use ECM motors.

MODELING OF THE BLDC MOTOR AND CURRENT CONTROL METHOD

M ODELING OF BLDC M OTOR The BLDC motor is an AC synchronous motor The BLDC motor has three stator windings and permanent magnets on the rotor. The modeling is based on the following assumptions: (1) The motor is not saturated. (2) Stator resistances of all windings are equal and self and mutual inductances are constant. (3) Power semiconductor devices in the inverter are ideal. (4) Iron Losses are negligible.

B LOCK DIAGRAM OF BLDC MOTOR DRIVE

Under the above assumptions, a BLDC motor can be represented as where ia, ib, and ic are rectangular shaped phase currents and ea, eb and ec are trapezoidal shaped back-EMFs. The electromagnetic torque is expressed as where, wm is mechanical speed

C URRENT C ONTROL M ETHOD Input current reference value was calculated from the summation method of the Fourier series. Phase current is rectangular shape and then, it's Fourier series is expressed as Where a0=0 and an=0, because it is odd function

using above eqn d-q transform of phase current can be done the electromagnetic torque is rewritten as α is proportional constant for feedforward compensation, λm is linkage flux of permanent magnet, and iq is q axis stator current

The interaction of T, with the mechanical dynamics where T L is the load torque, J is the inertia, w is the rotor speed, and B is the viscous damping.

B LOCK DIAGRAM OF PROPOSED CONTROL ALGORITHM BLDCM

LOAD TORQUE OBSERVER The proposed speed control method requires information of the load torque for feedforward compensation. A direct measurement of the load torque is difficult because other high cost equipment is required. Therefore, we use state observer to estimate value. Input value of the state observer is position information of rotor. The system equations of a motor can be described as where y is the rotor position

The dynamic equation of the given system can be expressed as

A state observer for the load torque estimation can be represented as follows

Estimated state vector can be represented as is the proportional gain vector to be chosen so as to determine the error dynamics of the observer

Estimated outputs of the observer are rotor position, speed,and load torque. Estimated load torque is used for feedforward compensation Reference current iq* is compensated as iq,com by estimated motor speed quickly converges the reference shortly after startup and recovers very well from the load torque disturbance as well as parameters variation

CONCLUSIONS Though BLDC is costly and its control circuit is complex, it replaces DC motors in many applications due to its wide advantages. The basics of BLDC was discussed. The feedforward compensation control improves the overall speed control performance in low speed controller gain. This technique was also discussed. It is regarded as the best control method to get fast and accurate speed response.

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