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IMPLEMENTATION OF VECTOR
CONTROLLED DRIVE
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ABSTRACT
Vector control is becoming the industrial standard for induction motor control. The vector control technique decouples the two
components of stator current space vector: one providing the control of flux and the other providing the control of torque. The
two components are defined in the synchronously rotating reference frame. The vector control technique is therefore a better
solution so that the control on flux and torque become independent from each other and the induction motor is transformed
from a non-linear to linear control plant.
I.INTRODUCTION
The squirrel cage induction motor being simple, rugged, and cheap and requiring less maintenance, has been widely
used motor for fixed speed application. So with the implementation of vector control, induction motor replaces the
separately excited dc motor. Modern method of static frequency conversion has liberated the induction motor from its
historical role as a fixed speed machine. The inherent advantages of adjustable frequency operation cannot be fully
realized unless a suitable control technique is employed. The choice of technique is vital in determining the overall
characteristics and performance of the drive system. Also the power converter has little excess current capability;
during normal operation the control strategy must ensure that motor operation is restricted to the regions of high torque
per ampere, thereby matching the inverter ratings and minimizing the system loses. Overload or fault conditions must
be handled by sophisticated control rather than over design.
Now a days more than 60% of all the electrical energy generated in the world is used by cage induction machines have
been mostly used at fixed speed for more than a century. On the other hand, D.C machines have been used for variable
speed applications. In DC machines mmf axis is established at 90 electrical to the main field axis. The electromagnetic
torque is proportional to the product of field flux and armature current. Field flux is proportional to the field current
and is unaffected by the armature current because of orthogonal orientation between armature mmf and field mmf.
Therefore in a separately excited DC machine , with a constant value of field flux the torque s directly proportional to
the armature current. Hence direct control of armature current gives direct control of torque and fast response. Hence
they are simple in control and offer better dynamic response inherently. Numerous economical reasons, for instance
high initial cost, high maintenance cost for commutators, brushes and brush holders of DC motors call for a substitute
which is capable of eliminating the persisting problems in dc motors. Freedom from regular maintenance and a
brushless robust structure of the three phase squirrel cage induction motor are among the prime reasons, which brings
it forward as a good substitute.
The ac induction motors are the most common motors used in industrial motion control systems, as well as in main
powered appliances. Simple and rugged design, low cost and low maintenance are some of the main advantages of 3phase ac induction motors. Various types of induction motors are available in the market. Different motors are suitable
for different application. The speed and torque control of 3 phase induction motors require great understanding of the
design and characteristics of these motors.
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The realization of fast decoupling control requires that both the magnitude and phase of the machine currents be
controlled accurately. Depending on the design philosophy and the type of ac machine, there can be many different
approaches to synthesize the machine currents to provide fast decoupling control. Among the different approaches of
torque and flux decoupling control techniques, the emerging consensus is that the method of field-orientation yields the
best overall performance. The field-oriented control (F.O.C.) is by far the most widely accepted method of control in
high performance ac drive domains. While F.O.C. represents a single, unified control concept, the application
strategies, complexity of implementation and drive responses vary with different drive motors.
The principle behind the field oriented control or the vector control is that the machine flux and torque are controlled
independently, in a similar fashion to a separately excited DC machine. Instantaneous stator currents are transformed
to a reference frame rotating at synchronous speed aligned with the rotor stator or air gap flux vectors, to produce a daxis component current and a q-axis component current. (SRRF).In this work, SRRF is aligned with rotor mmf space
vector, the stator current space vector is split into two decoupled components, one controls the flux and the other
controls the torque respectively
An induction motor is said to be in vector control mode , if the decoupled components of the stator current space vector
and he reference decoupled components defined by the vector controller in the SRRF match each other
respectively..Alternatively, instead of matching the two phase currents (reference and actual) in the SRRF, the close
match can also be made in the three phase currents (reference and actual) in the stationary reference frame. Hence in
spite of induction machines non linear and highly interacting multivariable control structure, its control has becomes
easy with the help of FOC. Therefore FOC technique operates the induction motor like a separately excitedly DC
motor.
The transformation from the stationary reference frame to the rotating reference frame is done and controlled by with
reference to specific flux vector (stator flux linkage, rotor flux linkage) or magnetizing flux linkage). In general, there
exits three possibilities for such selection and hence, three vector controls. They are stator flux oriented control, rotor
flux oriented control and magnetizing flux oriented control. As the torque producing component in this type of control
is controlled only after transformation is done and is not the main input reference, such control is known as indirect
torque control. The most challenging and ultimately, the limiting feature of field orientation is the method whereby the
flux angle is measured or estimated. Depending on the method of measurement, the vector control is sub divided into
two sub categories: direct vector and indirect vector control. In direct vector control, the flux measurement is done by
using flux sensing coils or the hall devices.
FOC uses a d-q coordinates having the d-axis aligned with rotor flux vector that rotates at the stator frequency. The
particular solution allows the flux and torque to be separately controlled by the stator current d-q components. The rotor
flux is a flux of the d-axis component stator current i ds .The developed torque is controlled by the q axis
component of the stator current
iqs .The decoupling between torque and flux is achieved only if the rotor flux position
is accurately known. This can be done using direct flux sensors or by using a flux estimator.
II.I Types of Vector control techniques of induction motor
The synchronously rotating reference frame (SRRF) can be aligned with the stator flux or rotor flux or magnetizing
flux (field flux) space vectors respectively. Accordingly, vector control is also known as stator flux oriented control or
rotor flux oriented control or magnetizing flux oriented control. Generally in induction motors, the rotor flux oriented
control is preferred. This is due to the fact that by aligning the SRRF with the rotor flux, the vector control structure
becomes simpler and dynamic response of the drive is observed to be better than any other alignment of the SRRF.
The vector control can be classified into (i) Direct vector control and (ii) indirect vector control.
(i)Direct vector control method
In direct vector control method we have seen that it determines the magnitude and position of the rotor flux vector by
direct flux measurement or by a computation based on terminal conditions. It also called flux feedback control is
method in which required information regarding the rotor flux is obtained by means of direct flux measurement or
estimation. The flux is measured by the sensors like Hall Effect sensor, search coil and this is a part of the
disadvantages. Because fixing of number of sensors is a tedious job and this increases the cost factor. [2]
.The quantities generated from flux sensors are used in the outer loop of the drive control structure. Alternatively, in
place of flux sensors, the flux models can also be used for which the stator currents and voltages become the feedback
signals and he rotor flux angle is given as its estimated output.
Figure.2 shows a simplified block diagram of a field control scheme .the two axis reference currents, i qs and i ds are
the demanded torque and flux components of stator current, respectively and are governed by the outer control loops.
Currents, i qs and i ds , undergo a coordinate transformation to two phase stator based quantities, followed by two
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phase to three phase transformation which generates the stator reference currents
i as
, i bs , i cs
.These reference
current are reproduced in the stator phases by the current controlled PWM inverter .[2]
Figure-2: Basic field oriented control system for an induction motor with a current controlled PWM inverter.
Thus the external reference currents i qs and i ds are reproduced within the induction motor. Control is executed in
terms of these direct and quadrature axis current components to give decoupled control of flux and torque as in a dc
machine
Disadvantages
1. Fixing of number of sensors is a tedious job.
2. The sensors increase the cost of the machine.
3. Drift problem exist because of temperature.
4. Poor flux sensing at lower temperatures.
These disadvantages lead to another technique called in-direct vector control technique
(ii)In-direct vector control Method
The motor speed is used as feedback signal in the controller. The controller calculates reference values of the two
decoupled components of stator current space vector in the SRRF which are iqs* and ids* for the control of torque and
flux respectively. [2] The two components of the currents are transformed into three phase currents which are ias*,ibs*,ics*
in the stationary reference frame of reference. Now as a balanced load, two of the phase currents are sensed and the
third one is calculated from the two sensed currents. The current controller controls the reference currents close to
sensed three phase currents in the stationary reference frame and operates the voltage source inverter to feed three
phase induction motor. This ensures a high level of performance of the vector controlled induction motor
(VCIMD).Because of the smooth, efficient and maintenance free operation of VCIMDs, such drives are finding
increasing applications in many drive application s such as air conditioning, refrigeration, fans blowers, pumps, waste
water treatment plants ,elevators, lifts traction motors, electric vehicles, etc[2][7]
The field-weakening controller receives the speed signal ( r ) as an input signal and provides reference value of the
excitation current ( i mr * ) as an output signal. Therefore the two signals are the reference signals for the vector
controller. In the vector controller the d-axis component ( i ds ) and the q- axis component ( i qs ) of the stator current
signals are computed which are responsible for the flux and torque control respectively. The slip frequency signal
( 2 * ) is also computed in vector controller to evaluate the flux angle. The slip angle is computed using slip
frequency (
*
2
), rotor speed (
in the synchronously rotating reference frame and these are transformed into stationary reference three phase currents
*
*
*
( i as * , i bs * , i cs * )For current controlled VSI fed vector controlled induction motor, the reference currents i as , i bs , i cs
and sensed currents ( i as , i bs , i cs ) are fed into the pulse width modulated (PWM) current controller. A triangular carrier
wave is generated at the required switching frequency (fs). The point of intersection of the triangular carrier wave and
modulating signals acts as the point of state change over for the resulting PWM signals, which are fed to the driver
circuit of VSI feeding an induction motor[2][7]
The indirect vector controlled induction motor is reshown in figure.3 below with blocks consists of the speed sensor,
speed controller ,limiter, the field weakening controller , the two phase rotating frame to three phase stationary frame
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converter, PWM current controller, CC-VSI and three phase squirrel cage induction motor. The functions are described
as follows
Puls es
is_abc
DC +
A
DC Voltage Source
i
a
DC -
Tm
A
b
C
C
C
Te
Te*
Demux
is_abc
Pulses
current
measurement
w* is_abc*
wm
1
z
time
Clock
speed ref
re ( n ) r ( n ) r ( n )
Where,
r (n)
r (n)
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re n1
1
w*
2
w
Kp
1
Gain 1
z
Unit Delay
1
Te *
Ki
Gain
Unit Delay 1
1
z
i mr
i mr
i mr
=Kf i m /
if
= im
if
Vector controller
The output of the speed controller after limiting is taken as the reference torque ( T * ) and output of field weakening
controller ( i mr * ) is taken as reference flux for the vector controller. These two command signals are taken as input to
the vector controller for calculating the torque component ( i qs ) and the flux component ( i ds
Estimation of i ds , iqs
and
*
2
The vector controller block is the heart of the entire modeling of the vector
controlled induction motor drive. This section calculates the direct and quadrature axis stator components
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( i ds and i qs ) in the synchronously rotating reference frame (SRRF) aligned with rotor inclined at flux angle ( )
with respect to stationary reference frame. [15]
Mathematically these equations for calculating these two components of the current are given as follows:
*
*
i ds n = i mr n + r di mr Eq(1)
dt
*
i qs n = T n Eq(2)
*
Ki
mr
n
r i mr n
i
2 * n = qs
Where,
Eq (3)
as
r=L
K= 3 p M
2
2
1
Rr
P is the number of poles, i ds n and iqs n refer to flux and torque components of stator current at nth instant,
th
2 * n refer to n instant reference slip frequency, M is the mutual inductance , r is the rotor leakage factor and Lr
is the rotor self inductance and is defined as
Lr Llr Llm Eq (4)
Lr 1 r M ..Eq (5)
And
r r 1
M
1
ids
-K-
du /dt
Derivative
Tr
1
T
0 .1209
Fcn
0.17296
2
iqs
Tr 1
3
w2
Fcn1
ics
in three phase stationary reference frame. The conversion process requires the flux angle ( ), which is
calculated by the integration of the synchronous speed. Synchronous speed is obtained by addition of slip speed
( 2 * ) and motor speed ( r )
Transformation equations can be written as follows:
*
*
*
i as i qs sin i ds cos .....Eq(6)
*
* 1
* 1 .........Eq(7) i cs
ibs cos 3 sin ids sin 3 cos iqs
2
i as i bs
..Eq(8)
III. Results
The simulation has been performed for 30 HP induction motor fed by an IGBT inverter for starting, speed reversal and
load perturbation is shown in the figure 7.
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Load Perturbations
The study of the performance of the vector controlled induction motor drive under load perturbation is really
important as the speed of the motor should not change under any load condition. The analysis is done by applying load
and removing the load on the motor when it is running at a steady speed of 250 rad/sec. Sudden application of load on
the rotor causes an instantaneous fall in the speed of the motor. In response to this drop in speed value, the output of the
controller responds by increasing the reference torque value. Therefore, the developed electromagnetic torque of the
motor increases causing the motor speed to settle down to the reference speed with the increased winding currents
Similarly when the load is removed suddenly from the motor, a small overshoot in the speed of the motor occurs.
Because of this small increase in speed, the torque output of the speed controller reduces thereby reducing the speed of
the motor. Thus the motor settles down at the reference speed value. In this manner the controller keeps the motor
running at a constant speed under the load variations. The performance has been verified by t analyzing the response to
a step variation of the load torque from 0 to rated torque and rated torque to 0.the response is shown in figure.10.
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AUTHOR
RAVI MALOTH Completed B.tech in Electrical & Electronics Engineering in 2007 from Sree Nidhi
Insttitute of Science & Technology, Hyderabad Affiliated to JNTUH, and M.Tech in System
Engineering & Operation Research in 2010 from IITRoorkee, Working as Associate Professor at
KSHATRIYA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, Nizamabad Telangana, India. Area of interest includes
Power Electronics.
M.C.SHEKAR Completed B.tech in Electrical & Electronics Engineering in 2005 from Bapuji
engineering college, Nirmal Affiliated to JNTUH, and M.Tech in Power Engineering in 2009 from
JNTUH, Working as Assistant Professor at KSHATRIYA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, Nizamabad
Telangana, India. Area of interest includes Power Electronics.
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