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...

This contribution deals with an optimal design of a brushless DC motor, using optimization algorithms, based on collective intelligence. For this purpose, the case study motor is perfectly explained and its significant specifications are obtained as functions of the motor geometric parameters. In fact, the geometric parameters of the motor are considered as optimization variables. Then, the obj...

Since the cost of fossil fuels is gradually increasing day by day as well as government policy is also towards the minimization of atmospheric pollution, it is mandatory for the human being to concentrate more on designing a hybrid bicycle powered by re-chargeable lead acid batteries. The aim of this paper is to design an electronic control unit for brushless DC (BLDC) motors in an electric cum...

This paper presents a hybrid fuzzy logic proportional plus conventional integral-derivative controller (FP+ID) for the speed control of permanent magnet brushless dc (PMBLDC) motor. Though, PID controllers are commonly used in practice, they have failed to perform satisfactory under nonlinearity, load disturbances, parameter variation etc. In this paper, the performance of the permanent magnet ...

It has been known that a state equation of a blushless DC motor is a nonlinear one. Recently, new linear state equation and a position and velocity sensorless control system with the full-order observer based on the equation has been proposed. But the pole assignment of the observer has not been presented clearly. In this paper, we propose an adaptive sliding observer for this linear state equa...

The permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) and the brushless dc motor (BDCM) have many similarities; they both have permanent magnets on the rotor and require alternating stator currents to produce constant torque. The difference in these two machines is that the PMSM and the BDCM has sinusoidal and trapezoidal back emfs, respectively. This means these two machines have different operating c...

This paper present the design of a novel embedded control system for improving attitude stabilization of a quad-rotor mini UAV. The control strategy uses low cost components and includes an extra control loop based on motor armature current feedback. This additional control loop significantly improves the performance of the quad-rotor attitude stability. This technique results in a controller t...