• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.31 no.8
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• pp.975-982
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• 2007

The single-phase switched reluctance motor(SRM) drive requires DC source which is generally supplied through a rectifier connected with a commercial source. The rectifier is consist of a diode full bridge and a filter circuit. Usually the filter circuit uses capacitor with large value capacitance to reduce ripple component of DC power. Although the peak torque ripple of SRM is small, the short charge and discharge current of the filter capacitor draws the low power factor and system efficiency. A modified single phase SRM drive system is presented in this paper, which includes drive circuit realizing reduction of torque ripple and improvement of power factor. In the proposed drive circuit, one switching part and diode which can separate the output of AC/DC rectifier from the filter capacitor is added. Also, a upper switch of drive circuit is exchanged a diode in order to reduce power switching device. Therefore the number of power switch device is not changed, two diodes are only added in the SRM drive. To verify the proposed system, some simulation and experimental results are presented.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.53 no.12
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• pp.691-699
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• 2004

SRM(Switched Reluctance Motor) drives require the accurate position information of the rotor. These informations are generally provided by a tacho generator or digital shaft-position encoder These speed sensors lower the system reliability and require special attention to noise. This paper describes a new approach to estimating SRM speed from measured terminal voltages and currents for speed sensorless control. The described method is based on the sliding mode observer. The rotor speed and position observers are estimated by the adaptation law using the real and estimated currents. However, the conventional adaptive sliding mode observer based on the variable structure control theory has some disadvantages that the estimated values including the high-frequency chattering and the steady state error generated due to the infinite feedback gain chosen and the discontinuous control input. To reduce the chattering and steady state error, an integrator is also inserted in the sliding mode observer strategy. The described adaptive sliding mode observer decreases the vibration to the switching hyper-plane of the sliding mode by adding integrator. The described methodology incorporates the Lyapunov algorithm to drive the rotor speed and the stator resistance such that it can overcome the problem of sensitivity in the face of SRM parameter variation. Also, without any mechanical information. The rotor speed of SRM is obtained form adaptive scheme. The described method is verified through the simulation and experiment.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.399-406
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• 1998

This paper proposes an instantaneous torque control method for the high performance SRM drive. In first, we e establish SRM model with the characte1istics of the torque. phase current and rotor position which were measured in t the experimental SRM. Based on this model. the reference torque waveform to minimize torque ripple is obtained by t the control of resultant torque considering phase torque overlap according to the variation of load and speed. And the r reference current waveform for the tracking of reference torque are decided. The control method for tracking the r reference current is used the delta modulation technique. The proposed method is validated by the comparing with S simulation and experimental results.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.55 no.8
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• pp.389-395
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• 2006

In the single-phase switched reluctance motor (SRM) drive, the required DC source is generally supplied by the circuit consisting of bridge rectifier with diodes and many filter capacitances connected with AC source. Although the peak torque ripple of SRM is small because of large capacity of the capacitance, the charge and discharge time swhich the AC source acts on the capacitance are small and the peak current will pass on the side of source, so power factor and system efficiency decrease. Therefore a novel SRM drive system is presented in this paper, which includes drive circuit realizing reduction of torque ripple and improvement of power factor and switching topology. The proposed drive circuit consists of one switching part and diodes which can separate the output of AC/DC rectifier from the large capacitance and supply power to SRM alternately in order to realize reduction of torque ripple and improvement of power factor through the turn on and turn off of switching part. In addition, the validity of method is tested by simulation and experiment.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2000

Switched reluctance motor(SRM) has simple magnetic structure, and requires simple power electronic driving circuit. It is very useful for wide range adjustable speed drive system. But, SRM drive generates large vibration and acoustic noise because it is commutated individually by step pulse m.m.f of each phase pole. In the vibration and acoustic noise characteristics. The considerable vibration and noise is induced by radial deforming of stator, so the frequency of dominant vibration and noise is coincident with the frequency of natural mode frequency of mechanical structure. This radial vibration force is generated in the phase commutation region. This paper suggests the new electromagnetic structure of SRM with auxiliary commutation winding which is excited by direct current. This phase and commutation winding are coupled magnetically between one phase winding and the other. Therefore, the switch-off phase current is absorbed by the another phase winding. By this interaction of phase and commutation winding in commutation mechanism, vibration and noise is reduced. And this reduction effect is examined by the test of prototype machine. As a result, SRM with DC exciting commutation winding is very useful to reduce vibration and acoustic noise.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.15-16
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 최소의 진동/소음을 가지는 SRM을 설계하기 위하여 고정자와 회전자의 Skew에 따른 단상 6/6 SRM의 소음/진동 특성을 비교, 분석하였다. SRM(Switched Reluctance Motor)에 발생하는 소음/진동의 주 원인은 모터 구동 시 Yoke 에 발생하는 방사방향 힘의 변화라고 할 수 있다. Yoke에 작용하는 힘은 돌극이 위치한 곳에 집중되므로 더욱 큰 진동을 유발하지만 회전자와 고정자에 동일한 Skew를 적용시키면 힘을 받는 Yoke의 면적은 늘어나게 되고, 따라서 방사방향의 힘을 요크 전체로 분산 시킬 수 있다. 이에 따라 스위치 온, 오프시 요크에 인가되는 방사방향의 힘의 최대치는 감소하게 되어 진동/소음이 현저히 줄어들게 된다. 본 논문에서는 최소의 진동/소음을 가지는 SRM을 설계하기 위하여 시뮬레이션을 통하여 회전자와 고정자의 스큐 각도에 따른 힘의 분포를 분석하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과를 바탕으로 하여 대표적인 특성을 가진 $0^{\circ}$, $18^{\circ}$의 SRM을 설계하여 소음/진동을 측정한 결과 제안한 방식이 소음/진동을 현저하게 감소시키는 효과를 가짐을 입증하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.17 no.12
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• pp.61-67
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• 2000

In switched reluctance motor(SRM) drive, it is necessary to synchronize the stator phase excitation with the rotor position. Therefore the rotor position information is an essential. Usually optical encoders or resolvers are used to provide the rotor position information. These sensors are expensive and are not suitable for high speed operation. In general, the accuracy of the switching angle is dependent upon the resolution of the encoder and the sampling period of the microprocessor. But the region of high speed, switching angles are fluctuated back and forth from the preset values, which are cause by the sampling period of the microprocessor. Therefore, the low cost linear encoder suitable for the practical and stable SRM drive is proposed and the control algorithm to provide the switching signals using the simple digital logic circuit is also presented in this paper. It is verified from the experiments that the proposed encoder and logic controller can be a powerful candidate for the practical low cost SRM drive.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.51 no.8
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• pp.434-440
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• 2002

Switched Reluctance Motor (SRM) has been not commonly used because of the severe noise and vibration, although it has many advantages as solidity and economical efficiency. The origin of the acoustic noise and vibration in SRM's can be broadly classified into two types, mechanical and magnetic. Therefore this paper verifies the origin of vibration induced by radial magnetic forces from various experiments, and then studies the relationship between the output and vibration characteristics of SRM according to switch-on and off angles. Acceleration, torque and efficiency is measured by changing switching angles. From the comparison and analysis of the experimental results, a proper switching angle is presented for both satisfying electric performance and reducing vibration.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.11c
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• pp.22-25
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• 2001

In this paper, a fuzzy advance angle control method is described to drive an industrial low voltage SRM (Switched Reluctance Motor) for 10kW forklift truck. SRM has a highly non-linear characteristic that is due to change the rotor and stator. And low voltage SRM is designed that its phase resistance and phase inductance is very low to inject high current into the phase windings. In this reason, the proper current control is necessary to drive the low voltage SRM efficiently. SRM has positive torque at increasing inductance region and negative torque at decreasing inductance region. Due to this reason, the current has to be built up in the increasing phase inductance part as soon as possible. Therefore, the phase switch must be turned on before the phase inductance increases, and this angle is called as the advance angle. Also, the phase current has to be dropped before the phase inductance decreases. Fuzzy logic is a flexible and general-purposed method of implementing non-linear functions and as such it is useful in control applications. Consequently, we designed a fuzzy advance angle controller to control the phase current appropriately.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.123-125
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• 2001

Salient pole rotor type single phase SRM(switched reluctance motor) uses the magnetic fluxes of radial and axial direction at the same time. Therefore the output power per unit volumn is very high and shaft length can be shorter than any other types of SRM with same output. Also, It can be manufactured with low cost thanks to simple structure and driving circuit. We already designed and manufactured prototype using the dynamic output equation of general rotating machine but the effect by salient pole structure was not considered. The most optimal design parameters for salient pole rotor type single phase SRM will be selected by comparing and analyzing the results from 3D FEM analysis, experimental values of the torque versus speed characteristics. and the nux linkage of prototype. Results for the former 3D FEM analysis and torque vs. speed characteristics were already obtained. Finally, we will measure the nux linkage of salient pole rotor type single phase SRM.