Browsing by Author "Toliyat, Hamid A."

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Citation Count: 126
Direct Torque and Indirect Flux Control of Brushless DC Motor
(Ieee-inst Electrical Electronics Engineers inc, 2011) Ozturk, Salih Baris; Toliyat, Hamid A.
In this paper, the position-sensorless direct torque and indirect flux control of brushless dc (BLDC) motor with nonsinusoidal back electromotive force (EMF) has been extensively investigated. In the literature, several methods have been proposed for BLDC motor drives to obtain optimum current and torque control with minimum torque pulsations. Most methods are complicated and do not consider the stator flux linkage control, therefore, possible high-speed operations are not feasible. In this study, a novel and simple approach to achieve a low-frequency torque ripple-free direct torque control (DTC) with maximum efficiency based on dq reference frame is presented. The proposed sensorless method closely resembles the conventional DTC scheme used for sinusoidal ac motors such that it controls the torque directly and stator flux amplitude indirectly using d-axis current. This method does not require pulsewidth modulation and proportional plus integral regulators and also permits the regulation of varying signals. Furthermore, to eliminate the low-frequency torque oscillations, two actual and easily available line-to-line back EMF constants (k(ba) and k(ca)) according to electrical rotor position are obtained offline and converted to the dq frame equivalents using the new line-to-line park transformation. Then, they are set up in the look-up table for torque estimation. The validity and practical applications of the proposed sensorless three-phase conduction DTC of BLDC motor drive scheme are verified through simulations and experimental results.
Citation Count: 80
Direct Torque Control of Four-Switch Brushless DC Motor With Non-Sinusoidal Back EMF
(Ieee-inst Electrical Electronics Engineers inc, 2010) Ozturk, Salih Baris; Alexander, William C.; Toliyat, Hamid A.
This paper presents a direct torque control (DTC) technique for brushless dc (BLDC) motors with non-sinusoidal back electromotive force (EMF) using a four-switch inverter in the constant torque region. This approach introduces a two-phase conduction mode as opposed to the conventional three-phase DTC drives. Unlike conventional six-step current and voltage control schemes, by properly selecting the inverter voltage space vectors from a simple look-up table at a predefined sampling time, the desired quasi-square wave current is obtained. Therefore, a much faster torque response is achieved compared to conventional current and voltage control schemes. In addition, for effective torque control, a novel switching pattern incorporating the voltage vector look-up table is designed and implemented for a four-switch inverter to produce the desired torque characteristics. Furthermore, to eliminate the low-frequency torque oscillations, pre-stored back EMF constant versus position look-up tables are designed and used in the torque estimation. As a result, it is possible to achieve two-phase conduction DTC of a BLDC motor drive with faster torque response due to the fact that the voltage space vectors are directly controlled. A theoretical concept is developed and the validity and effectiveness of the proposed DTC scheme are verified through the simulations and experimental results.
Citation Count: 2
On-line dead time compensator for PMSM drive based on current observer
(Elsevier - Division Reed Elsevier india Pvt Ltd, 2022) Kıvanç, Ömer Cihan; Ozturk, Salih Baris; Toliyat, Hamid A.
An on-line compensation for the dead time strategy without the knowledge of the current direction is proposed for PMSM drive based on a current observer. The modifications of the motor reference voltages are achieved by an uncomplicated current observer working in conjunction with the feedforward dead time voltage estimator. Therefore, the distortions on phase currents and torque due to dead time are greatly reduced. The proposed method does not require look-up table and coordinate transformations. It also does not need phase current polarity information or calculation of dead time period. Since the proposed scheme requires no extra hardware and time consuming signal processing algorithms, it is appropriate to use in real-time implementation of AC drives. The proposed scheme has been validated in simulation and implemented using TMS320F28335 DSP. Simulation and practical results validate the effectiveness and the feasibility of the proposed scheme. (c) 2021 Karabuk University. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Citation Count: 2
A Simple Least Squares Approach for Low Speed Performance Analysis of Indirect FOC Induction Motor Drive Using Low-Resolution Position Sensor
(Ieee, 2017) Ozturk, Salih B.; Kivanc, Omer C.; Atila, Berkin; Rehman, Saeed Ur; Akin, Bilal; Toliyat, Hamid A.
This paper investigates an ordinary least squares based indirect field oriented control (IFOC) of induction motor at very low speed range (1-5 rpm) using a low-count encoder. At very low speeds the speed estimation provided by common techniques for low-count encoder applications such as averaging the last two speed samples and/or considering the previous speed value until the next position update can generate erroneous speed results which can cause instability in the overall control system. By proposing ordinary least squares (OLS) method with low-resolution position sensor based speed estimation for IFOC of IM drives more realistic speed can be obtained by fitting the predefined sets of speed data in a linear or quadratic manner. Experimental tests prove that the proposed scheme which is constituted of OLS (linear) speed estimation algorithm increases stability and improves low and oscillating speed performance of IFOC of IM drive with low-count encoders down to four pulses per revolution.