• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.273-278
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• 2019

This study proposes a method for improving the overmodulation performance of a three-phase inverter to obtain an enhanced output torque for the AC motors. In the inverter-fed AC motor drives, the output torque of the motor can be enhanced by utilizing the overmodulation region as well as the linear modulation regions of the inverter. The overmodulation method is used for this overmodulation operation of the inverter. However, the voltage gain, the ratio of the output voltage of the inverter to the reference voltage achieved by the conventional overmodulation methods becomes nonlinearly smaller than unity. Therefore, the effect of improving the output torque of the AC motors is insignificant even when the overmodulation region is utilized. In this study, we propose a method that improves the overmodulation performance of the inverter by compensating the limited amount of the reference voltage in the overmodulation operation to enhance the output torque of the AC motors. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified through the simulations and experiments with an 800 W permanent magnet synchronous motor.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.439-444
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• 2018

The performance improvement in the high speed region for the sensorless based synchronous machine drive is discussed in the paper. Conventional dynamic overmodulation method in the vector controlled AC driver requires some calculation of maximum amplitude of the applying voltage vector to limit its amplitude, which leads to increase the calculation time of microprocessor. For low performance microprocessor, this might be impossible to complete the control loop within limited control time. Thus, to reduce the calculation time, the constantly limited amplitude for applying voltage vector is tried in this paper to drive sensorless based synchronous motor. Certainly, there exists some errors in amplitude and phase angle between inverter voltage and calculating voltage in the sensorless algorithm. But, this errors are too small to prevent the high speed sensorless operation within overmodulation region. The validities of the proposed method is proved by the experimental results.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.29-33
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• 1998

In this paper, a new dynamic overmodulation strategy is proposed for vector-controlled induction motor drive, and a comparison experiment with conventional schemes are also performed. In overmodulation region, the proposed overmodulation scheme allocates the output voltage of inverter so that synchronous d-axis voltage is diminished in proposed overmodulation scheme allocates the output voltage of inverter so that synchronous d-axis voltage is diminished in proportion as reference voltage exceeds hexagon boundary. As a result, d-axis current is decreased in the overmodulation region, which improves the dynamic performance of torque control considering the current dynamics of induction motor. The conspicuous improvement of the proposed scheme over conventional ones is observed in experimental results.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2019.07a
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• pp.408-409
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• 2019

PMSM(Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor)의 약자속 제어 시 인버터를 6-스텝 모드까지 운전함으로써 전동기의 출력 토크 능력을 최대로 활용할 수 있다. 그러나 6-스텝 동작을 위해 일반적으로 사용되는 정적 과변조 기법의 경우 구현이 복잡하며, 과도 상태에서의 동작이 고려되지 않기 때문에 토크 응답 특성이 저하된다. 이에 비해 구현이 간단한 동적 과변조 기법을 사용하는 경우 전압변조지수 증가에 따라 인버터의 전압 이득이 1보다 비선형적으로 크게 작아지기 때문에 6-스텝 모드에서의 운전이 힘들다. 이에 본 논문에서는 구현이 용이한 동적 과변조 기법에 대해 과변조 성능이 향상되도록 하는 방법을 제안하며, 제안된 방법에 의해 인버터가 6-스텝 모드까지 운전될 수 있으므로 구동 전동기의 출력 토크 능력을 최대한으로 활용할 수 있으며, 향상된 토크 응답 특성을 얻을 수 있다.