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Adaptive control system for line-commutated inverters

US4401934A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 7, 1981
Grant dateAug 30, 1983
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Expiry dateAug 7, 2001

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH02P27/047
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A control system for a permanent-magnet motor (10) driven by a multiphase line-commutated inverter (12) is provided with integrators (24) for integrating the back EMF of each phase of the motor for use in generating system control signals for an inverter gate logic (30) using a sync and firing angle (.alpha.) control generator (26) connected to the outputs of the integrators. A precision full-wave rectifier (16) provides a speed control feedback signal to a phase-delay rectifier (14) via a gain and loop compensation circuit (20) and to the integrators for adaptive control of the attenuation of low frequencies by the integrators as a function of motor speed, whereby as the motor speed increases, the attenuation of low frequency components by the integrators is increased to offset the gain of the integrators to spurious low frequencies. While the attenuation may be a continuous linear function of speed, a switch (Q.sub.1) is employed to provide a step change in attenuation at 40% of speed.

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