Title: The influence of decoupling voltages on the performance of synchronous current controllers in induction motor drives

Authors: Mihai Comanescu, Todd D. Batzel

Addresses: Penn State Altoona, 3000 Ivyside Park, Altoona, PA, 16601, USA. ' Penn State Altoona, 3000 Ivyside Park, Altoona, PA, 16601, USA

Abstract: The paper discusses the design of the current controllers for the induction motor (IM) drive where field oriented control is done in the rotor flux synchronous reference frame. The most common current control method is to use PI controllers alone – this is easy to implement and works well in most cases. A better scheme is to use decoupling compensation voltages in addition to the PIs, however, this is more difficult to implement and the decoupling voltages are often omitted. The paper compares the two current control schemes. The influence of the feed-forward decoupling voltages on the performance of the current loops is investigated in torque control mode and speed control mode. The theoretical findings are validated by simulations and experimental results.

Keywords: induction motors; synchronous current control; current decoupling; decoupling compensation voltages; PI control; torque control; speed control.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPELEC.2011.042311

International Journal of Power Electronics, 2011 Vol.3 No.5, pp.527 - 546

Received: 27 Mar 2009
Accepted: 22 Mar 2010
Published online: 31 Jan 2015 *

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