Vector Control Methods for Star-Connected Three-Phase Induction Motor ‎Drives Under the Open-Phase Failure

Document Type : Research paper

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1 Department of Electrical Engineering, Gorgan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Gorgan, Iran

2 Plasma and Nuclear Fusion Research School, Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Reliability for electric motor drive systems is very vital in some industries. Selecting an appropriate control strategy for driving an electric motor during fault conditions is one of the most important issues mainly for safety-critical applications. Recently, vector control (VC) strategies have been extensively developed for star-connected three-phase induction motor drives during single-phase cut-off fault (COF) based on two different transformation matrices (TMs). Despite the effectiveness of these methods during the fault, these control systems are very complex due to their extensive on-line computation. This paper presents two simple methods based on indirect VC (IVC) and direct VC (DVC) methods for controlling a star-connected three-phase induction motor during the fault condition. The fault in this paper is limited to single-phase COF which can occur in motor stator coils. In this paper, it is shown that using a suitable TM and some changes in the control parameters, it is possible to control the faulted drive system. Performance of the proposed control methods is verified using MATLAB software and DSP/TMS320F28335 controller board for a 0.75kW star-connected three-phase induction motor drive system. The achieved results show the good performance of the introduced control systems in different operating conditions. In addition, the results demonstrate the performance of the proposed VC strategies and that of the previous works are almost the same. However, the proposed VC methods in this paper need less modification in the structure of the standard VC strategy than the previous works.

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Journal of Operation and Automation in Power Engineering
Volume 10, Issue 2
August 2022
Pages 155-164

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  • Receive Date: 29 April 2021
  • Revise Date: 13 June 2021
  • Accept Date: 29 June 2021
  • First Publish Date: 17 July 2021

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