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...

Abstract: In recent decades, micro air vehicles driven by electric propellers have become a hot topic, and developed quickly. The performance of the vehicles depends on the rotational speed of propellers, thus, improving the accuracy of rotational speed measurement is beneficial to the vehicle’s performance. This paper presents the development of a soft sensor for the rotational speed measureme...

In 1931 Dirac [1] introduced a magnetic monopole into the quantum mechanics and found a quantization relation between an electric charge e and magnetic charge q, 2μ = n, n ∈ Z, where μ = eq, and ~ = c = 1. One of the widely accepted proofs of the Dirac selection rule is based on group representation theory (see, for example, [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]). In the presence of the magnetic monopole the operato...

The paper presents a novel method of speed control with Single neuron PI controller with a simple and novel commutation scheme, "Pseudo Sinusoid Commutation" for a BLDC motor with improved performance. BLDC motors are one of the electrical drives that are rapidly gaining popularity, due to their high efficiency, good dynamic response and low maintenance. The proposed scheme of commuta...

This study focused on efficiency improvement of BLDC motors via reduction of torque ripple, core loss, and permanent magnet loss. To achieve this objective, we proposed an improved 150° commutation method for three-phase permanent magnet brushless DC (BLDC) motors to improve the current waveform. Although the 120° commutation method is generally employed for a BLDC motor, the 150° commutation m...

The mathematical model of the equivalent circuit of a brushless DC motor switches during the operation due to commutation. This issue causes a sudden ripple in the output torque, which is called commutation torque ripple. Brushless DC motor drives suffer from commutation torque ripple, affecting the performance of the motor in practical applications. A discrete-time switched controller is propo...

The three-phase permanent magnet brushless dc (BLDC) motor inherently needs an electronic commutation circuit to drive it because it is not a self-commutating motor. It is contrary to the conventional brush motor which commutates itself. This paper presents a comparison study of three widely used different commutation methods in terms of the complexity of the commutation circuit, torque ripple,...

in this paper, an intelligent control strategy based on combination of the “flatness based control technique” and the “perturbation and observation (p&o;) mppt algorithm” is developed and investigated to control a hybrid electric energy source (heps). this ehps is composed of a fuel cell system (fc) and a solar panel (sp), as the main source and a supercapacitor bank (sc), as the auxiliary sour...

Matrix converters have been extensively investigated in academia over the last 3 decades. Several review works targeting matrix converter topologies, commutation strategies, modulation and control techniques published. However, to best of authors’ knowledge, a on potential contributions for applications that are shaping electric power sector transition towards decarbonization is lacking, namely...

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...