Field-Weakening Nonlinear Control of a Separately Excited DC Motor.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2007, Article ID 58410, 22 pages doi:10.1155/2007/58410 Research Article Field-Weakening Nonlinear Control of a Separately Excited DC Motor Mohamed Zribi and Adel Al-Zamel Received 17 March 2006; Accepted 30 January 2007 Recommended by Giuseppe Rega This paper investigates the design and implementation of nonlinear control schemes for a separately excited DC motor operating in the field-weakening region. A feedback lin- earization controller, a Corless-Leitman-type controller, and two nonlinear controllers are designed and implemented for a DC motor system. The stability of the closed-loop system is proved using Lyapunov theory. A hardware testbed is constructed to experi- mentally verify the designed controllers. The hardware consists of a DC motor system, a DSP controller board, a power module, two current sensors, and a tachogenerator. The experimental results indicate that the developed controllers work well. Copyright © 2007 M. Zribi and A. Al-Zamel. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, dis- tribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. Introduction Generally, DC motors are used in a huge number of industrial applications. In particular, separately excited DC motors have many applications. The operation of separately excited DC motors is as follows. Field coils are used to establish an air-gap flux between station- ary iron poles and the rotating armature which has axially directed conductors that are connected to a brush commutator; these conductors are continuously switched such that those located under a pole carry similarly directed currents. The interaction of axially di- rected currents and radially directed field flux produces a shaft torque. DC motors and drives generally contain nonlinear relations that are difficult t