ABSTRACT
This paper presents the method of reducing torque
ripple of brushless direct current (BLDC) motor. In the BLDC motor, the torque ripple
is decided by the back-electromotive force (EMF) and current waveform. If the
back-EMF is constant in the conduction region of current, the torque ripple
depends on the current ripple. The period of freewheeling region in the
conduction region can be acquired by circuit analysis using the Laplace
transformation and the torque ripple can be also reduced by varying input
voltage to reduce the current ripple. The suggested method to reduce the torque
ripple is confirmed by the dynamic simulation with the parameters of 500W BLDC
motor.
KEYWORDS
1. BLDC motor
2. Current ripple
3. Torque ripple
4. Varying input voltage
SOFTWARE:
MATLAB/SIMULINK
CIRCUIT DIAGRAM:
Fig.
1. PWM inverter and equivalent circuit of BLDC motor
EXPECTED SIMULATION RESULTS
Fig.
2. Back-EMF of 500 W BLDC motor at 6660 rpm.
Fig.
3. Current waveform of 500 W BLDC motor at 6660 rpm. (a) Experimental data. (b)
Simulation data.
Fig.
4. Current and torque waveform in simulation. (a) Constant input voltage.
(b)
Various input voltage..
CONCLUSION
This
paper presents the method of reducing torque ripple of the BLDC motor by
varying the input voltage after circuit analysis using the Laplace
transformation. In the simulation confirmed by experiment, the torque ripple is
reduced to 10%. The 500WBLDC motor used for simulation and experiment dose not
have a trapezoidal back-EMF waveform but a sinusoidal back-EMF waveform. So the
torque ripple is not reduced conspicuously, although the current ripple is
reduced conspicuously, and produced torque ripple waveform is similar to the
back-EMF waveform of 500 W BLDC motor.
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