robust controllers for variable reluctance motors健壮的可变磁阻电机控制器.pdf

ROBUST CONTROLLERS FOR VARIABLE RELUCTANCE MOTORS MOHAMED ZRIBI AND MUTHANA T. ALRIFAI Received 12 June 2004 and in revised form 29 September 2004 This paper investigates the control problem of variable reluctance motors (VRMs). VRMs are highly nonlinear motors; a model that takes magnetic saturation into account is adopted in this work. Two robust control schemes are developed for the speed control of a variable reluctance motor. The first control scheme guarantees the uniform ultimate boundedness of the closed loop system. The second control scheme guarantees the expo- nential stability of the closed loop system. Simulation results of the proposed controllers are presented to illustrate the theoretical developments. The simulations indicate that the proposed controllers work well, and they are robust to changes in the parameters of the motor and to changes in the load. 1. Introduction The variable reluctance motor is a synchronous motor which is comprised of iron lamina- tions on the stator and rotor and copper phase windings on the stator. Torque is produced by the attraction of the closet rotor poles to the excited poles. In motoring operations, phase excitation is synchronized to rotor position such that the rotor poles are pulled to- ward the excited stator poles in the direction of rotation. In generating operations, phase excitation is synchronized to rotor position such that the rotor poles are pulled backward toward the excited stator poles in the direction opposite to the rotation. Variable reluctance motors are almost maintenance free since they do not have me- chanical brushes. Also, VRMs are not expensive because they do not have rotor windings or magnets. Moreover, VRMs can produce high torques at low speeds. These character- istics combined with the advancement in power electronics, and the availability of high- speed processors make variable reluctance motors attractive for many general-purpose industrial app