A hybrid controller for the speed control of a permanent magnet synchronous motor drive.pdf

ARTICLE IN PRESS0967-0661/$ - se doi:10.1016/j.co Correspond E-mail addr (O. Ustun).Control Engineering Practice 16 (2008) 260–270 /locate/conengpracA hybrid controller for the speed control of a permanent magnet synchronous motor drive Cetin Elmas, Oguz Ustun Department of Electric, Faculty of Technology, Gazi University, 06500 Besevler, Ankara, Turkey Received 29 November 2005; accepted 24 April 2007 Available online 22 June 2007Abstract This paper introduces a hybrid controller (HC) which consists of a parallel connected sliding mode controller (SMC) and a neuro- fuzzy controller (NFC) for the speed control of a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drive. The aim of this study is to obtain a controller that eliminates the chattering phenomenon and provides a fast and smooth dynamic response for the speed control of a PMSM drive. Therefore, using an error band method, the system is controlled by the SMC to get a fast dynamic response in transient mode and is also controlled by the NFC to get a smooth dynamic response in steady state mode. To illustrate the performance of the proposed controller, the simulation and experimental studies are presented separately for the SMC, NFC and HC. The results are compared with each other and discussed in detail. r 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Sliding mode control; Fuzzy logic control; Neural networks; Permanent magnet synchronous motor drive1. Introduction Permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) are of great interest, particularly for industrial applications in the low-medium power range, since it has superior features such as compact size, high torque/weight ratio, high torque/inertia ratio and absence of rotor losses (Slemon, 1994). However, the performance of the PMSM is very sensitive to external load disturbances and parameter variations in the plant. Some control techniques such as nonlinear control (Baik, Kim, Youn, 2000; Solsona, Valla, Muravchik, 2000), sliding mode control (Karunadasa