First-Order-Delay-Controlled Slip-Angular Frequency for the Dynamic Performance of an Indirect-Field-Orientation-Controlled Induction Motor-Driving Inertial Load

Abstract

Sophisticated torque-current control is required in inertial load-drive applications, such as in electric vehicles and electric railway vehicles, over a wide speed range. However, the conventional indirect-field-orientation control (FOC) lacks the current response during the transient response because the conventional feedforward slip-angular-frequency control causes secondary flux fluctuation. Therefore, this article proposes FOC with first-order-delay slip-angular-frequency control, which reduces the secondary flux fluctuation and realizes high-performance torque-current control during transient response. The proposed method was verified through numerical simulation and small-scale model experiments with a 750 W induction motor and an inertial load.

Keywords

• Induction motors (IMs)
• motor drives
• variable speed drives