• Journal of international Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.83-90
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• 2013

This paper describes advanced brushless DC motor drive without position sensor for home appliances with compressor to reduce the pulsating currents and vibration. The proposed method limits the motor currents during starting period and reduces commutation torque ripple during sensorless operating period. Experimental results show that the proposed method implemented in an inverter for a BLDC motor driven compressor considerably reduces not only the pulsating currents but also vibration of the home appliances.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.1203-1215
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• 2019

Sensorless brushless DC (BLDC) motor drive systems are often subjected to inaccurate commutation signals and can produce high current peaks and conduction consumption. To achieve accurate commutation, a fast commutation shift regulation method for sensorless BLDC motor drive systems considering the influence of the inductance freewheeling process is presented to compensate inaccurate commutation signals. The regulation method is effective in both steady speed and variable speed operations. In the proposed method, the commutation error is gained from the line-voltage difference integral in a 60 electrical-degree conduction period and the outgoing phase current before commutation. In addition, the detection precision of the commutation error is improved due to the consideration of the freewheeling period. The commutation error is directly obtained, which avoids successive optimization and accelerates the convergence rate of the proposed method. Moreover, the commutation error features a positive or negative sign, which can be utilized as an indicator of advanced or delayed commutation. Finally, experiments are conducted to validate the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method. The results obtained show that the proposed method can accurately regulate commutation signals.

• KIEE International Transaction on Electrical Machinery and Energy Conversion Systems
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• v.4B no.4
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• pp.196-200
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• 2004

This paper presents a method to reduce the commutation torque ripple in a position sensorless brushless DC motor drive. To compensate the commutation torque ripple considerably, the duration of commutation must be known. The proposed method measures the duration of commutation from the terminal voltage of the motor, calculates a PWM duty ratio using the measured commutation interval to suppress the commutation torque ripple, and applies it to the calculated PWM duty ratio only during the next commutation. Experimental results show that pulsating currents and vibrations are considerably reduced when the proposed method is applied to a position sensorless brushless DC motor drive for the air-conditioner compressor.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.1559-1566
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• 2015

The brushless DC motor (BLDCM) has many advantages. As a result, it is widely used in electric vehicle (EV) drive systems. To improve the reliability of the motor control system, a position sensorless control strategy based on a sliding mode observer (SMO) is proposed. The global fast terminal sliding mode observer (GFTSMO) is proposed to enhance the control performance of the SMO control system. The advantages of the linear sliding mode and the nonsingular terminal sliding mode (NTSM) are combined in the control strategy. The convergence speed of the system state is enhanced. The motor commutation point is obtained with the observation of the back EMF, and the instantaneous torque value of the motor is calculated. Therefore, the position sensorless control of the BLDCM is realized. Experimental results show that the proposed control strategy can improve the convergence speed, dynamic characteristics and robustness of the system.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.164-170
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• 2010

In brushless DC motor, current flow should be controlled such that only properly selected 2 out of 3 phases carry current depending on the position of rotor. In order to detect position of rotor, hole sensor, encoder, optical position-detecting sensor, and magnetic position-detecting sensor are frequently employed. These sensors not only often cause malfunction in low and high temperature but they also have disadvantage of increasing cost and size of an motor system. To reduce the cost and size and to increase the robustness of the motor system, recently researches on sensorless motor dirve are very active. This paper proposes a novel unipolar PWM switching method that can improve the control problem caused by the difficulty of detecting zero crossing point at high revolution speed by minimizing the switching noise while increasing the lifespan of the drive system.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.715-723
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• 2016

This paper proposes a design of optimal PI(D) controller for brushless DC (BLDC) motor speed control by the particle swarm optimization (PSO), one of the powerful metaheuristic optimization search techniques. The proposed control system is implemented on the TMS320F28335 DSP board interfacing to MATLAB/SIMULINK. With Back EMF detection, the proposed system is considered as a class of sensorless control. This scheme leads to the speed adjustment of the BLDC motor by PWM. In this work, the BLDC motor of 100 watt is conducted to investigate the control performance. As results, it was found that the speed response of BLDC motor can be regulated at the operating speed of 800 and 1200 rpm in both no load and full load conditions. Very satisfactory responses of the BLDC system can be successfully achieved by the proposed control structure and PSO-based design approach.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.1444-1446
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• 2005

Recently most machineries have been small size and mobile type. And human body insertion type endoscope and micro robot technology has been developed. Then the motors used in this field are developed in micro size such as about 2mm in diameter. The structure of this motor is similar to a general brushless DC(BLDC) motor but because of small size there is no position sensor such as hall sensor. In this paper, a design and fabrication result of an ultra-small brushless DC motor is presented. This motor is designed to 3-phase coreless winding and operated with sensor-less type driver. Test results confirmed the feasibility of the proposed motor drive system design.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07d
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• pp.1813-1814
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• 2006

BLDC 전동기는 AC서보 일종으로 스위칭 소자를 이용한 인버터 회로를 통해 정류하므로 정류 시 회전자의 위치 정보를 회전자에 홀 센서나 레졸버와 같은 위치 센서를 부착하여 위치 정보를 얻는다. 위치 센서는 전동기 가격 및 크기를 증가시키고 구조를 복잡하게 만들기에 위치 검출 센서 없이 구동하는 센서리스 구동 방법이 최근 많이 연구되고 있다. 센서리스 구동 방법에 가장 많이 쓰는 방법이 역기전력을 이용하는 것이다. 역기전력을 이용하는 경우 전동기가 고속으로 회전 시 비교적 잘 적용되지만 정지 상태에 있거나 저속에서 운전 시, 역기전력이 충분히 크지 않을 경우 적용이 어려운 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 BLDC 전동기의 3상 중 2상의 단자전압을 이용하여 센서리스 구동 방법을 제안한다. 정지 상태에서의 회전자 위치 파악은 DC링크 단에 전류 센서를 사용하여 초기 위치를 파악하고 한상의 단자전압을 검출하여 각 상의 여자 시점을 결정하여 초기 구동함으로써 기존의 다른 센서리스 회로의 간략화와 효율적이고 구현이 간단하며 무엇보다 가격전인 측면에서 여타의 방법에 비해 유리하다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.17 no.8
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• pp.157-164
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• 2000

This paper presents a method to detect a rotor position and to drive a BLDC motor from standstill to medium speed without any position sensor comparing the current responses due to the inductance variation in the rotor position. A rotor position at a standstill is identified by the current responses of six pulses injected to each phase of a motor. Once the motor stars up pulse train that is composed of long and short pulses is injected to the phase corresponding to produce the maximum torque and the next phase continuously. it provides not only the torque but also the information of the next commutation time effectively when the response of long and short pulses crosses each other after the same time delay. This method which is verified experimentally using a DSP can drive a BLDC motor to the medium speed smoothly without any rattling and time delay compared with the conventional sensorless algorithm.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.203-210
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• 2008

Since hub wheel BLDC Motor consisted of wheel and BLDCM (Brushless DC Motor) without gear reducer has high efficiency and low operation noise, it can be utilized to a driving wheel at some light rail systems. However, installing sensors for speedometer on a Hub-Wheel motor is not easy, so it requires a different speed control mechanism method for speed measurement. This paper introduces a speed control method based on simple mathematical model which uses discrete Kalman Filter to estimate and control the speed of the motor.