• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.153-160
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• 2015

Hybrid Electric Vehicles(HEVs) have seriously come into prevalence recently as car manufacturers and consumers have become more aware of the environmental and economic problems of conventional vehicles. For the alternative power-train and battery cooling systems in HEVs, an effective thermal management system is required, and many automakers are interested in using Brushless DC(BLDC) motors for cooling fans for the overall traction unit's performance and energy saving capability. This paper presents the development status of BLDC motors as major parts of the power-train, i.e. the engine cooling and battery cooling fans of HEVs. A design that uses BLDC motors for the power-train and each battery cooling fan, is successfully implemented through using electro-magnetic analysis, and prototype BLDC motors are examined. As experimental results, the BLDC motors achieved an efficiency of 85% as engine cooling fans and 72% as a battery thermal management fan motor. The electric cogging noise is significantly reduced by changing the skew of the slot pitch angle and optimizing the magnetic shape.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.659-666
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• 2006

Servo-motors are used as key components of automated system by performing precise motion control as accurate positioning and accurate speed regulation in response to the commands from computers and sensors. Especially, the linear brushless servo-motors have numerous advantages over the rotary servo motors which have connection with the friction induced transfer mechanism such as ball screws, timing belts, rack/pinion. This paper proposes an estimation method of unknown motor system parameters using the informations from the sinusoidal driving type linear brushless DC motor dynamics and outputs. The estimated parameters can be used to tune the controller gain and a disturbance observer. In order to meet this purpose high performance Digital Signal Processor, TMS320F240, designed originally for implementation of a Field Oriented Control(FOC) technology is adopted as a controller of the liner BLDC servo motor. Having A/D converters, PWM generators, rich I/O port internally, this servo motor application specific DSP play an important role in servo motor controller. This linear BLDC servo motor system also contains IPM(Intelligent Power Module) driver and hail sensor type current sensor module, photocoupler module for isolation of gate signals and fault signals.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.134-143
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• 2016

This paper proposes a novel asymmetrical interior permanent magnet (IPM) brushless DC (BLDC) motor structure, which utilizes half-type permanent magnet (PM) configuration and has asymmetrical side gaps (slot next to the PMs) for reducing torque ripples. This structure uses 24% less volume of PMs than conventional IPM BLDC motor with a full set of magnets. The characteristics of the proposed motor are compared with three other half-type IPM BLDC motors through finite elements method (FEM) analysis, and the usefulness of the proposed motor was verified through experimental evaluation on prototypes of the conventional motor and proposed motor under various torque load conditions. This research obtained a high-performance IPM BLDC motor while decreasing manufacturing cost at the same time.

• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.104-113
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• 2001

This paper describes a precise position synchronous control of two axes rotating system using BLDC motors and a cooperative control based on decoupling technique and PI control law. The system is required performances both good speed following and minimum position synchronous errors simultaneously. To accomplish these goals, the three kinds of controllers are designed. At first, the current and speed controller are designed very simply to compensate the influences of disturbances and to follow up speed references quickly. Especially, the two degree of freedom PI controller is used considering both good tracking for speed reference input and quick rejection of disturbances in speed controller. Finally, a position synchronous controller is designed as a simple proportional controller to minimize position synchronous errors. The validity of the proposed method is confirmed through some numerical simulations. Moreover, the results are compared to the conventional master-slave control ones to show the effectiveness of the proposed system.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.15-22
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• 2002

This paper introduces a compensating system for machining error, which is resulted from chucking with separated jaws. In machining the chucked cylindrical workpiece, the deterioration of machining accuracy, such as out-of-roundness is inevitable due to the variation of the radial compliance of the chuck workpiece system which is caused by the position of jaws with respect to the direction of the applied force. To compensate the chucking compliance induced error, firstly roundness profile of workpiece due to chucking compliance after machining needs to be predicted. Then using this predicted profile, the compensated tool feed trajectory can be generated. And by synchronizing the cutting tool feed system with workpiece rotation, the chucking compliance induced error can be compensated. To satisfy the condition that the cutting tool feed system must provide high speed and high position accuracy, brushless linear DC motor is used. In this study, firstly through the force-deflection experiment in workpiece chucked lathe, the variation of radial compliance of chuck workpiece system is obtained. Secondly using the mathematical equation and cutting experiment result, the predicted profile of workpiece and its compensation tool trajectory are generated. Thirdly the configuration of compensation system using linear motor is introduced, and to improve the system performance, PID controller is designed. Finally the tracking performance of system is examined by experiment. Through the real cutting experiment, roundness is significantly improved.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.569-577
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• 2005

In this paper, a new control scheme to use 6-switch IGBI module for 3-phase switched reluctance motors(SRM) is proposed. Compared with the conventional asymmetric bridge converter topology, it can minimize the entire system size and cost. Therefore, it may have a new topology lot SRM to compare the other ac motors, such as induction motors, brushless dc motors, and so on. The validity of the proposed method is verified by simulation, and experimental results.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.07b
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• pp.706-708
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• 2002

Vibration, giving rise to acoustical noise, is an important index of motor performance. The unbalance force due to rotor eccentricity caused by manufacturing imprecision or bearing defects is one possible source of excitation to vibration. With the advent of new high-energy magnetic material together with high precision motor applications, magnetic sources of vibration are becoming more serious. This paper introduces two types of high-speed slotless permanent magnet (PM) machine for electro-mechanical battery and investigates unbalance force due to static eccentricity with finite element method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.363-366
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 브러쉬없는 직류전동기의 위치제어를 위한 직접적응 퍼지가변구조제어기를 설계한다. 가변구조제어는 시스템의 파라메터 변화나 외란에 둔감한 특성을 갖는 반면 떨림현상의 문제점을 가지고 있다. 떨림현상의 진폭은 시스템의 불확실정보를 최악의 상태로 가정한 후 결정되므로, 기존의 가변구조제어에서는 그 크기가 너무 크다. 또한 이런 불확실한 요소들의 최대값은 찾아내기도 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 불확실한 요소의 최대값을 최적으로 추정하기 위하여 퍼지 추론 기법을 사용한다. 아울러 소속함수의 원소들을 직접적응 기법에 의하여 자동 조정할 수 있는 기법을 추가한다. 이를 통하여 우수한 제어 성능을 얻을 수 있음을 확인한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.489-492
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• 2000

브러쉬없는 직류전동기의 위치제어를 위한 퍼지가변구조제어기를 설계한다. 특히 본 논문에서는 기존의 퍼지제어 기법에서 얻을수 있는 특징으로부터 하나의 전건부 변수만을 가지는 간단한 퍼지논리제어기의 설계를 기술한다. 가변구조제어는 시스템의 파라메터 변화나 외란에 둔감한 특성을 갖는다. 하지만 리칭페이스에서는 문제가 된다. 이를 개선하기 위하여 본 논문에서는 지수항을 추가한 비선형 슬아이딩면을 구성한다. 그리고 나서 비선형적 슬라이딩면과 슬라이딩면의 변화율을 입력으로하는 퍼지 제어기를 설계한다. 이러한 2-입력 퍼지가변구조제어기의 제어 규칙표로부터 슬라이딩면 하나만을 입력으로 가지는 단일입력 퍼지 가변구조 제어기를 설계한다. 이들 제어기의 성능을 입증하기 위하여 시뮬레이션과 실험을 수행한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.449-454
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• 2005

Brushless DC Motor(PM BLDCM) is widely used in industrial applications due to its high efficiency and power density. In order to increase reliability and reduce system cost, this paper studies particularly applicable method for sensorless PM BLDCM drive system. The resulting third harmonic signal keeps a constant phase relationship with the rotor flux for any motor speed and load condition, and is practically free of noise that can be introduced by the inverter switching, making this a robust sensing method. As a result, the method described here is not sensitive to filtering delays, allowing the motor to achieve a good performance over a wide speed range. In addition, a simple starting method and a speed estimation approach are also proposed.