• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.225-231
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• 2013

This paper presents an improved signal processing technique in the square-wave-type voltage injection method for IPMSM sensorless drives. Since the sensorless method based on the square-wave voltage injection does not use low-pass filters to get an error signal for estimating rotor position and allows the frequency of the injected voltage signal to be high, the sensorless drive system may achieve an enhanced control bandwidth and reduced acoustic noise. However, this sensorless method still requires low-pass and band-pass filters to extract the fundamental component current and the injected frequency component current from the motor current, respectively. In this paper, these filters are replaced by simple arithmetic operations so that the time delay for estimating the rotor position can be effectively reduced to only one current sampling. Hence, the proposed technique can simplify its whole signal process for the IPMSM sensorless control using the square-wave-type voltage injection. The proposed technique is verified by the experiment on the 800W IPMSM drive system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.869-873
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• 2008

Optimization method for the open loop commutation time intervals in HDD spindle start-up control is presented in this paper. A hard disk drive(HDD) uses a sensorless brushless DC motor(BLDC) for the platter rotation. Because there is no direct sensor for the rotor position, open loop commutations after sensing the rotor position at a standstill using inductive sensing method are performed to speed up the rotor up to a certain speed where the zero crossings of the back electromotive force(EMF) are measurable. Therefore successful open loop commutations are necessary for the stable start-up control of the spindle motors. Random neighborhood search(RNS) algorithm is introduced as a optimization technic in this paper. Rotor speed and its standard deviation are used as a cost function and commutation intervals obtained from the spindle motion equation are used as initial parameter values for the RNS. With the help of the proposed method optimized open loop commutation time intervals for the very low start-up current are acquired and tested. The experimental results shows that the proposed method can decrease the start-up failure rate of a HDD spindle motor.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2020.08a
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• pp.425-426
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 영구자석형 동기전동기의 벡터제어를 수행하는데 필요한 회전자의 위치, 특히 기동시의 초기 회전자 위치를 정확하게 검출하기 위하여 자기식 위치 센서를 사용하는 방법을 제안하고, 기존의 광학식 인크리멘탈 로터리 엔코더를 사용하는 경우에 비하여 검출 성능이 우수함을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.577-582
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• 2015

This paper proposes an efficient detection of absolute position of a robot joint using two incremental encoders. We considers a robot joint comprising a motor, a reducer, two encoders, and a motor drive. An incremental(first) encoder provides motor's rotor position or input position of reducer while another incremental(second) encoder does output position of the reducer. A table is made where the relationship between the first and the second encoder counts is recorded. The key point is placed where the table is constructed: when a pulse occurs in the second encoder, there exists a corresponding unique count value of the first encoder. The absolute position is detected using the table by searching the second encoder position corresponding to the first encoder count value when a pulse occurs in the second encoder. The proposed method needs a small rotation, as just one second encoder's pulse angle, for the initial absolute position detection.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.1168-1170
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• 2005

This paper deals with the conductor bar design to improve starting stability of line-start synchronous reluctance motor(LSRM). As design variables, the number and the shape of conductor bars of rotor are chosen. The starting characteristics are calculated by finite element method(FEM) and the conductor bars are designed to improve the starting torque according to initial starting rotor position. Finally, the starting characteristic of the designed model are compared with that of the initial model.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.40 no.12
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• pp.1218-1229
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• 1991

The time optimal position control design can be repeatedly taken from the initial state of a dynamic system to a desired one as fast as possible in the industrial drives. In this case, an induction machine parameters will vary due to temperature, frequency, and saturation effects. In particular, the rotor resistance changes critically with temperature and frequency. These changes affect the command values of the stator current components and slip speed. There is a mismatch between the commanded variables and actual ones of the induction motor drive, and this situation leads to coupling of the vector controller from the plant, i.e. the induction motor . Consequences of such a coupling include the initiation of oscillations of the rotor flux and unsuitable switching of electromagnetic torque for the induction motor servo drive. Therefore, this paper describes a rotor resistance parameter compensating method for the induction motor, And the validity of the proposed design method is confirmed by simulation studies and experiment results.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.714-722
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• 2018

This paper presents a wide-range speed control scheme of brushless DC (BLDC) motors based on a hall sensor with separated low- and normal-speed controllers. However, the use of the hall sensor signal is insufficient to detect motor speed in the low-speed region because of low sensor resolution and time delay. In the proposed method, a micro-stepping current control method according to the torque angle variation is presented. In this mode, the motor current frequency and rotating angle are determined by the reference speed without the actual speed fed by the hall sensor. The detected torque angle is used to adjust the current value in a limited band to control the current value in accordance with the load. The torque angle is detected exactly at the changing point of the hall sensor signal. The rotor can follow the rotating flux with the variable torque angle. In a normal speed range, the conventional vector control scheme is used to control the motor current with a PI speed controller using the hall sensor. The torque characteristics are analyzed on the basis of the back EMF and current shape. To adopt the vector control scheme, the continuous rotor position is estimated by the measured speed and hall sensor position. At the mode changing point between low and normal speed range, the proper initial current command and reference rotor position are calculated. The calculated current command can reduce the torque ripple during transient mode. The proposed method is simple but effective in extending the speed control range of a conventional BLDC motor with hall sensor without the need for a high-resolution encoder. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by various experiments on a practical BLDC motor.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.227-228
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 스위칭 주파수의 구형파 펄스 전압 주입을 이용한 센서리스 제어시 회전자 초기 위치 추정 방법을 제안하였다. 추정된 동기좌표계 d축에 스위칭 주파수의 구형파 펄스 전압을 주입하여 회전자의 위치를 추정하고, 인덕턴스 포화현상을 이용하여 회전자의 극성을 판별하였다. 제안된 방법은 실험을 통하여 그 타당성을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2014.07a
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• pp.241-242
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 PWM 스위칭 주파수 신호 주입 센서리스 제어와 전압 펄스 인가 방법을 혼합한 회전자의 초기 위치 추정 기법을 제안하였다. d축 전류제어기 출력에 PWM 스위칭 주파수의 펄스 전압 신호를 주입하여 회전자의 위치를 추정하고, 추정한 위치에 해당하는 전압 벡터를 인가하여 자기 포화에 따른 인덕턴스의 차이를 이용함으로써, 회전자 영구자석의 극성을 판별하였다. 실험을 통하여 제안된 기법의 타당성을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Conference
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• 1998.04a
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• pp.277-285
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• 1998

This paper presents the deformation characteristics of the moving pressure plate in a balanced type vane pump that widely used automotive power steering systems. Moving pressure plate can control the clearance between rotor and plate in accordance with load pressure variation; it always guarantees that pump to have optimal volumetric efficiency. In this paper, firstly, we calculate the acting force on the pressure plate, which is used to determine the angular position and load condition for analyzing the deformation of pressure plate. Secondary, finite element method is used for the deformation analysis. As results of acting force analysis, it is found that maximum difference of forces occurs at angular position 28$\circ$ from the small arc center of cam ring and load pressure is a dominant factor to affect acting force variation. The deformation of pressure plate increases as load pressure increases. At high load pressure, the deformation of pressure plate becomes larger than the initial clearance between rotor and plate. Therefore, it is required to design the plate for controlling the deformation.