• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.667-678
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• 2009

The PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) control signals have a drawback in that their power spectrum tends to be concentrated around the switching frequency and the resulting harmonic spikes cause an EMI (Electromagnetic Interference) and switching losses in semiconductors, etc. The SDM (Sigma-Delta Modulation) is a type of switching modulation used to reduce these harmonic spikes, and several SDM schemes are investigated in this paper. In the DSDM (Dithered SDM), the SDSDM (Space-Dithered SDM) and TDSDM (Time-Dithered SDM), the signals are classified by the location of their random dither additions. In these schemes, the switching frequency is spread by a random dither generator placed on the input or the output parts. Experimental results are presented where the advantages of the new proposed CDSDM (Combined Dithered SDM) are confirmed by applying to a buck converter.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.106-111
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• 2002

In this paper, a new three phase RPWM(Random PWM)with fixed switching frequency is proposed. In the proposed RPWM, each of three phase pulses is located randomly in each switching interval. Based on the space vector modulation technique, the duty ratio of the pulses is calculated. Along with the the randomization of the PWM pulses, we can obtain the effects of spread spectra of voltage, current as in the case of randomly changed switching frequency. To verify the validity of the proposed RPWM, the experimental study was tried. Along with the randomization of PWM pulses, the space vector modulation is also executed in the C167 micro-controller. The experimental results show that the voltage and current harmonics are spread to a wide band area and that the audible acoustic noise is reduced by the proposed RPWM method.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.2018-2030
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• 2015

A two stage ac drive configuration consisting of a single-phase line commutated rectifier and a three-phase voltage source inverter (VSI) is very common in low and medium power applications. The deterministic pulse width modulation (PWM) methods like sinusoidal PWM (SPWM) could not be considered as an ideal choice for modern drives since they result mechanical vibration and acoustic noise, and limit the application scope. This is due to the incapability of the deterministic PWM strategies in sprawling the harmonic power. The random PWM (RPWM) approaches could solve this issue by creating continuous harmonic profile instead of discrete clusters of dominant harmonics. Insufficient filtering at dc link results in the amplitude distortion of the input dc voltage to the VSI and has the most significant impact on the spectral errors (difference between theoretical and practical spectra). It is obvious that the sprawling effect of RPWM undoubtedly influenced by input fluctuation and the discrete harmonic clusters may reappear. The influence of dc link fluctuation on harmonics and their spreading effect in the VSI remains invalidated. A case study is done with four different filter capacitor values in this paper and results are compared with the constant dc input operation. This paper also proposes an ingenious RPWM, a ripple dosed sinusoidal reference-random carrier PWM (RDSRRCPWM), which has the innate capacity of suppressing the effect of input fluctuation in the output than the other modern PWM methods. MATLAB based simulation study reveals the fundamental component, total harmonic distortion (THD) and harmonic spread factor (HSF) for various modulation indices. The non-ideal dc link is managed well with the developed RDSRRCPWM applied to the VSI and tested in a proto type VSI using the field programmable gate array (FPGA).

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.51-57
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• 2010

This paper proposes a new random switching strategy using a DSP TMS320F2812 to reduce the harmonics spectra of single phase switched reluctance motors. The proposed method combines the random turn-on/off angle technique and the random pulse width modulation technique. A harmonic spread factor (HSF) is used to evaluate the random modulation scheme. In order to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method an experiment was conducted. The experimental results show that the harmonic intensity of the output voltage for the proposed method is better than that for conventional methods.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2004.07a
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• pp.411-414
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• 2004

본 연구에서는 RPP(Randomized Pulse Position PWM)의 특징과 RSF(Random Switching Frequency PWM)의 특징을 모두 갖는 하이브리드 RPWM (Random PWM)기법을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법은 PRBS(Pseudo-Random Binary Sequence)로 동작하는 시프트 레지스터의 lead-lag 랜덤 비트를 사용한다는 점에서 종전의 방법과 동일하나, 이와 논리적인 비교를 위해 랜덤 주파수의 삼각파를 이용한다는 점에서 종전의 방법과 다르다. 본 연구의 타당성을 확인하기 위하여 인버터 기반의 3상 유도모터 구동시스템에 제안된 방법을 적용하였다. 그 결과 종전의 방법에 비하여 인버터 구동 유도모터의 전압 및 전류의 고조파 스펙트럼의 광 대역화에 탁월한 효과가 있음을 입증할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.316-319
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• 1998

RPWM(Random Pulse Width Modulation) is a switching technique to spread the voltage and current harmonics on the wide frequency area. Using randomly changed switching frequency of the inverter, the power spectrum of the electromagnetic acoustic noise cab be spread to the wide-band area. The wide-band noise is much more comfortable and less annoying than the narrow-band one. So RPWM have been attracting an interest as an excellent method for the reduction of acoustic noise on the inverter drive system. In this paper a new RPPWM (Random Position PWM) is proposed and implemented. Each of three pulses is located randomly in each switching interval. Along with the randomization of PWM pulses, the space vector modulation is executed in the C167 microcontroller also. The experimental results show that the voltage and current harmonics were spread to wide band area and that the audible switching noise was reduced by proposed RPPWM method.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.196-198
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 강압형 DC-DC 컨버터의 성능 개선을 위한 스위칭 기법인 2차 SDSDM(Space Dithered Sigma-Delta Modulation)방식을 제안한다. PWM 방식은 일정 스위칭 주파수 대역에서의 고조파로 인해 소음, 전자파 장애, 스위칭 손실 등을 초래한다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위한 DSDM 방식의 일종인 1차 SDSDM은 랜덤 디더(Random Dither) 발생기가 1차 SDM의 양자화기(quatizer) 입력 단에 위치하여 스위칭 주파수가 분산된다. 강압형 DC/DC 컨버터에 제안하는 2차 SDSDM의 방식을 적용한 실험 결과를 통해 타당성을 검증한다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.07b
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• pp.1169-1171
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• 2002

In this paper, RFRPP(Random Frequency Randomized Pulse Position ) PWM for three-phase voltage-controlled inverters is proposed. The LLPWM(Lead-Lag PWM) techinquc is that three switching pulses are located randomly back and forth in each switching interval. But with the restriction of random distribution, the harmonic spectrum cannot be dispersedly and continuously distributed. This paper calculates the duty ratio of the switching pulse firstly. Second, the switching pulses are located randomly in the switching interval. Third, the fixed switching frequency of the space vector modulation is randomly varied. To verify the validity of the proposed technique, simulation study is tried using Matlab/Simulink. When a proposed techniquc is employed, the harmonic spectrum of the inverter output voltagc varies from one cycle to the next and the EMI(Electromagnetic Interference) and resonant vibration are greatly alleviated.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.134-138
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• 2004

본 연구에서는 카오스 랜덤 PWM(Chaotic Random PWM) 기법에 의한 3상 유도모터의 스위칭 소음 저감에 대하여 다루고 있다. 일반적으로 사용되고 있는 랜덤 발생기로서 선형일치발생기(Linear Congruential Generator : LCG)대신에 로지스트 사상(Logistic Map)의 분기도(Bifurcation Diagram)를 랜덤 발생기로 사용하였다. 카오스 랜덤수 발생기는 80C196 마이크로 콘트롤러가 전담하고 있으며, 80C196으로부터 발생된 카오스랜덤 수와 MAX038에 의하여 삼각파 랜덤 캐리어가 발생되고 있다. 1.5kw급 3상 유도모터 구동 시스템에 카오스 RPWM기법을 적용하여 모터전압 및 전류 그리고 스위칭 소음의 스펙트럼을 고찰하였다. 카오스 RPWM과 LCG에 의한 RPWM의 결과를 각각 비교하였으며 본 연구의 타당성을 입증하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.163-167
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 PWM 펄스를 랜덤하게 위치시킬 수 있는 새로운 3상 공간벡터 RPWM (Random PWM) 기법을 제안하고 있다. 기존의 RPWM 방식과 달리 SVPWM에 의해 발생된 PWM 펄스를 랜덤하게 위치시키는 원리를 각 섹터마다 달리 적용하여 쉽게 RPWM을 구현하는 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법의 타당성 검증을 위하여, 제안된 RPWM (Random PWM) 기법 알고리즘에 대해 DSP를 이용한 IGBT 인버터 구성에 의한 실험을 수행하였다. 이에 대한 결과 중, 특히 10000 rpm 이상의 고속운전특성에서의 인버터 출력 전압 및 전류의 고조파 스펙트럼을 넓은 주파수 영역으로 고루 분산시켜 제안된 RPWM의 특정고조파의 저감효과를 입증하고자 한다