• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.679-690
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• 2009

The paper presents a new photovoltaic inverter for stand-alone induction motor application. The proposed system is composed of two stages. First stage is for the photovoltaic dc power feeding and second stage is dedicated to the motor-inverter subsystem and control technique. A direct torque control (DTC) with a novel switching strategy for motor torque ripple minimization is introduced. The novel DTC strategy is based on selecting a suitable voltage vector group for motor torque ripple minimization. A three-level voltage source inverter (VSI) is used instead of a two level inverter because the first has more available vectors and lower ripples in the output current and flux than the second, thus it has lower torque ripples. The photovoltaic array and battery bank are sized and the configuration is indicated based on sun-hour methodology. Simulation results show a comparison between three systems; two level VSI with conventional DTC strategy, three level VSI with conventional DTC, and the proposed system that has a novel DTC switching strategy applied to three level VSI. The results show that the proposed system has lower ripples in the current, flux and torque of the motor.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2014.07a
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• pp.207-208
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 복잡한 계산 없이 간단한 방법을 통하여 어느 레벨에서도 적용이 가능한 일반적인 N-레벨 식을 제안한다. 이 방법은 각 ${\alpha}$ 축과 ${\beta}$ 축을 움직여 N-레벨 인버터를 2-레벨 인버터로 단순화 한다. 이 과정으로 타입을 구분하지 않고 하나의 식으로 N-레벨 인버터의 dwell-time을 나타낼 수 있다. 시뮬레이션 결과를 통하여 본 논문의 타당성을 검증 하였다.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.240-248
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• 2017

This paper describes the development of a powertrain for a 20 kW experimental electric vehicle using a surface-mounted permanent magnet synchronous motor (SPMSM) and its application to a test vehicle. Two 10 kW SPMSMs are used in the powertrain, and two-level inverters are developed by using IGBTs to derive these motors. To control the SPMSM, a control board based on a TMS320F28335 DSP module, which has fast arithmetic function and floating point operator, is used. We develop a 100 V/40 A battery pack, which includes $32{\times}4$ LiFePO4 battery cells using commercial BMS. A commercial on-board charger with 220 V (AC) input and 100 V (DC) and 18 A output is used to charge the battery pack. The performance of the developed vehicle, such as acceleration availability, maximum speed, and maximum power, is estimated based on vehicle dynamics and verified through experiments.