The presented paper deals with the implementation of the Switching Table Based Direct Torque Control (ST-DTC) in the matrix converter-fed induction motor drive. In order to improve the control of the matrix converter input power factor, the use of the simplified Indirect Space Vector Modulation (ISVM) was proposed. To verify the feasibility of the proposed solution, experimental results were pr...

This paper presents a new method to compensate the nonlinearity for matrix converter drives using disturbance observer. The nonlinearity of matrix converter drives such as commutation delay, turn-on and turn-off time of switching device, and on-state switching device voltage drop is modeled by disturbance observer and compensated. The proposed method does not need any additional hardware and of...

This article presents an alternative ac–ac converter topology and its control for low-speed three-phase induction motor drives fed from single-phase ac mains. The proposed matrix based drive system eliminates the dc link capacitor, thus facilitating high power density reliability. primary challenge in controlling a <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http...

A minimum-time torque control strategy for permanent-magnet ac motor drives is presented. The proposed solution is obtained by an ad-hoc procedure based on the computation of reachability and controllability sets which in turn requires solving iteratively a fourth-degree polynomial equation. For its efficient implementation an algorithm based on Sturm sequences is proposed. The algorithm has be...

A multilevel inverter is a power electronic device made to synthesize a desired AC voltage from several levels of DC voltages. Some industrial drives require medium voltage and megawatt power level. For a medium voltage grid, it is troublesome to connect only one power semiconductor switch directly. A multilevel power converter structure has been introduced as an alternative in high power and m...

Many systems require that the primary source of DC power be converted to other voltages. Battery driven circuitry is an obvious candidate. The 6V or 12V cell in a laptop computer must be converted to different potentials needed for memory, disc drives, display and operating logic. In theory, AC line powered systems should not need DC/DC converters because the implied power transformer can be eq...

Pulse width modulation based on space vectors (SVPWM) technique has become the most popular and important PWM techniques for three phase voltage source inverters (VSI). In this paper, we present the analysis and realization of SVPWM for variable speed control of AC motor drives, employing Xilinx Spartan 3E FPGA device. The selection of zero vectors and space vector sequence are given and the po...