In the last decade, industrial AC drives have become more advanced in performance and more compact in size. This is largely due to the rapid development of power silicon technology, including the enhancement of IGBTs and of High Voltage Integrated Circuits. Additionally, this technological growth has been particularly accelerated for low horsepower (< 5 Hp) AC Drives. Yet the ground fault prote...

Solar energy is the most promising non-conventional sources of energy. This paper proposes the working of single phase induction motor using solar arrays and power electronics. The SEPIC converter is taken as dc-dc converter which is designed and DC analysis has been done in CCM. Then inverter is used to convert dc power to ac power. The performance of SEPIC converter and inverter is measured, ...

From a control viewpoint, DC motors must be maintained frequently due to their brushes and rectifiers. Sometimes the motor is installed in a location that makes it difficult or impossible to maintain or repair the motor. Compared to the disadvantages of DC motors, AC motors have a variety of advantages. for example, AC motors feature small size, light weight, low rotary inertia, and low price. ...

A design method based on the internal model control (IMC) theory has been developed for the robust control of a low-power ac induction servo drive in application of highperformance motion control system. Indirect vector control with software current control technique has been developed to achieve fast response decoupling control of the induction motor. An equivalent model representing the contr...

–A permanent magnet two phase AC servo motor is widely used for high performance position control applications. Nevertheless with the presence of nonlinearities, and the input is periodic, conventional type controller is not sufficient to provide satisfactory time-varying trajectory position control. In order to improve the tracking performance for periodic reference trajectory, this article pr...

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Voltage sags are normally described by magnitude variation and duration. In addition to these quantities, sags are also characterized by unbalance (asymmetry), nonsinusoidal waveshapes, and phase angle shift (phase jump). These factors are important for determining the behavior of ac motor drives during sags. Voltage unbalance and phase angle shifts cause large unbalanced source currents to, ex...

This paper investigates over-voltage transients on ac induction motors when connected through a cable of arbitrary length to a Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) consisting of a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) inverter with Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) power devices. Factors contributing to a motor over-voltage transient equal to a theoretical twice dc bus voltage are first described using...

36 Elektor Electronics 11/2003 Often a mechanical operation is required in an application to accurately position a load or device. While a conventional DC or AC motor can be used, it is difficult to determine the exact position of the load, motor speed, or how much total motion has been produced, unless external positioning sensors, encoders, servo loops, and controlling devices (brakes or clut...

Several field-oriented induction motor drive methods without rotational transducers have been proposed. These methods have a disadvantage that the rotor resistance variation causes an estimation error of the motor speed. Therefore, simultaneous estimation of the motor speed and the rotor resistance is required. This paper presents a method of estimating simultaneously the motor speed and the ro...