This paper describes a simple way to control, in a sensorless way, a Brushless DC (BLDC) motor for electric vehicle applications. To control this machine it is generally required to count with a position sensor because the inverter phases, acting at any time, must be commuted depending on the rotor position. Encoders and resolvers have been used for sensing rotor position with respect to stator...

Light urban electric vehicles are an important target, both for the researchers and manufacturers. Concerning the motor’s choice, more ways are investigated, but the most important is that as compact as possible solutions have to be used. In the top of the preferences, the permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSM) and brushless DC motors (BLDC) are situated. These are preferred thanks to their...

Abstract: A new type of permanent magnet (PM) brushless claw pole motor (CPM) with soft magnetic composite (SMC) core is designed and analyzed in this paper. The PMs are mounted on the claw pole surface, and the three-phase stator windings are fed by variable-frequency three-phase AC currents. The advantages of the proposed CPM are that the slip rings on the rotor are cast off and it can achiev...

The accuracy of rotor position estimation in the (several kHz), and its amplitude cannot be changed as it is conventional signal injection based sensorless control of determined by the DC-link voltage and the PWM duty cycle, permanent magnet brushless AC drives depends on the load the amplitude of high frequency current will be too small for current. This paper proposes an improved method, whic...

A wavelet transform on the negative half real axis is developed using an average-interpolation scheme. This transform is redundant and can be used to perform causal wavelet processing, such as on-line signal denoising, without delay. Nonetheless, in practice some boundary effects occur and thus a small amount of delay is required to reduce them. The effect of this delay is studied using a numer...

This paper discusses the suitability of four-phase, five-phase, and six-phase modular machines, for use in applications where servo characteristics and fault tolerance are key requirements. It is shown that an optimum slot number and pole number combination exists, for which excellent servo characteristics could be achieved, under healthy operating conditions, with minimum effects on the power ...

Combining the main advantages of the permanent magnet synchronous motors and pure synchronous reluctance motors (SynRM), permanent magnet assisted synchronous reluctance motor (PMaSynRM) has been considered as a promising alternative to the conventional induction motors. In this paper, utilizing a macroscopic design parameter, called insulation ratio along the q-axis, and based on the magnetic ...

This paper discusses the influence of the position feedback sensor technology in servo drive applications. Incremental encoders, resolvers, and sinusoidal encoders are considered. Different hardware and software techniques used for the processing of position measurement signals are presented. Advantages and drawbacks are discussed for each solution. The choice of the best suited position feedba...

In this paper we want to describe proposal of the fuzzy control of synchronous motor with permanent magnet and impact of deployment of membership functions of fuzzy controller on a regulation quality of a synchronous permanent magnet motor (PMSM). In the first part of this paper is described mathematical model of synchronous motor with permanent magnets and designed controller by using fuzzy lo...

Nelson, Andrew Lincoln: Characterization of Winding Faults in Axial Flux Reluctance Motors in the Context of Electric Vehicle Propulsion Systems. (Under the direction of Dr. Mo-Yuen Chow.) Since the late 1980’s there has been a major resurgence in electric vehicle propulsion research and development. This trend has been stimulated by various factors, including rising fossil fuel costs, environm...