Vector Control of Induction Motor Abstract
Vector Control of Induction Motor Abstract
Vector Control of Induction Motor Abstract
ABSTRACT
Induction motor, particularly squirrel-cage type induction motors, have a number of advantages when compared with dc motors. Some of these are ruggedness, lower maintenance requirements, better reliability, lower cost, weight, volume and inertia, higher efficiency and the ability to operate in dirty and explosive environments. The major drawback of dc motors is the presence of commutators and brushes, which require frequent maintenance .Also, the DC motors are not suitable for explosive and dirty environments. Because of their advantages, induction motors are widely used than all the motors put together. Vector control of an AC induction motor is analogous to the control of a separately excited DC motor. In a DC motor the field flux produced by the field current is perpendicular to the armature flux produced by the armature current. These fields are decoupled and stationary with respect to each other. Therefore when the armature current is controlled to control torque the field flux remains unaffected enabling a fast transient response. Vector control seeks to recreate these orthogonal components in the AC machine in order to control the torque producing current separately from the magnetic flux producing current so as to achieve the responsiveness of a DC machine. A 3 phase machine can be represented by an equivalent 2 phase machine using direct (d) and quadrature (q) axes for both stator and rotor. The current in these axes are controlled to control the induction motor and hence called Vector Control of Induction Motor. These two decoupled components can be independently controlled by passing though separate PI controllers. The outputs of the PI controllers are transformed back to the three-dimensional stationary reference plane using the inverse of the Clarke-Park transformation. There exists three possibilities for such selection and hence, three different vector controls. They are: Stator flux oriented control, Rotor flux oriented control, and magnetizing flux oriented control. This thesis strives to develop a Simulink model of closed loop speed control of 3 phase induction motor on a three-phase inverter using indirect vector control of induction motor using matlab.As power converters are built from linear and nonlinear electric elements such as power semiconductor switches, electrical machines, and control systems containing linear and nonlinear elements. Effective modeling and simulation of such systems require a software tool that can handle all these functions in an integrated environment. So, MATLAB/SIMULINK software tool is used to simulate and for the study of this system.