Design of controllers

Krishan Arora
Assistant Professor
Lovely Professional University

Need of Controller design

The control system consists of an outer control
loop for rotational speed and an inner control
loop for current. The output of the speed
controller is an input (current reference) to the
current controller. The block diagram of the
control system is shown in Fig. 2. The current
and voltage limits are not included in Fig. 2
when these limits are active, they cause
nonlinearity in the control system. The two
controllers
can
usually
be
designed
independently, since the mechanical dynamics
of the system is usually much slower than the
dynamics of the armature circuit.

Controllers and
Controller Design

Speed Control Loop

Four-Quadrant Drive
A four-quadrant drive allows the DC motor to
be driven in both rotational directions both in
the motoring mode and in the regenerative
braking mode. For four-quadrant operation,
the power electronics must allow the
direction of the armature current to be
changed2. Figure 5 illustrates the fourquadrant drive based on two antiparallel sixpulse thyristor bridges. It is assumed that
only one of the bridges is operated at a time
(i.e., no circulating-current operation).