ABSTRACT:
In order to extend the lifetime and save the system cost, the film
capacitor is applied in the DC-link of IPMSM drives. Many active damping
control methods have been carried out to improve the drive system stability,
which need the accurate value of the DC-link film capacitor. In this letter, an
online DC-link capacitance estimation method is investigated for reduced
capacitance IPMSM drives, which does not need any additional signal injection
or sensor. The power coupling characteristics are analyzed to obtain the
instantaneous power of the DC-link capacitor from the inverter and the grid
sides. The band-pass filter is applied to extract the DC-link voltage and
capacitor power with twice the frequency of the grid voltage. The DC-link
capacitance could be estimated by the fundamental component of the DC-link
voltage. The proposed method can be used for different kinds of load types and
motor types of the drive system. Experimental results are performed to verify
the estimation method, and the estimation error is within 1%.
KEYWORDS:
1. Online capacitance estimation
2. Motor drive
3. Online capacitance estimation
4. Reduced DC-link capacitance
SOFTWARE: MATLAB/SIMULINK
BLOCK DIAGRAM:
Fig.
1. Block diagram of DC-link capacitance estimation.
EXPECTED SIMULATION RESULTS:
Fig.
2. Experimental results when the motor operates at 1800rpm. (a) Waveforms of
grid power, inverter power, capacitor power and its fundamental component. (b)
Waveforms of the DC-link voltage, the product of DC-link voltage and its
derivative, and the fundamental component of the product M. (c) Detailed
waveform of the fundamental component of capacitor power, M, and the
estimated DC-link capacitance.
Fig.
3. Experimental results when the motor operates at 4800rpm. (a) Waveforms of
grid power, inverter power, capacitor power, and its fundamental component. (b)
Waveforms of the DC-link voltage, the product of DC-link voltage and its
derivative, and the fundamental component of the product M. (c) Detailed
waveform of the fundamental component of capacitor power, M, and the
estimated DC-link capacitance.
Fig.
4. Experimental results when the motor operates at 3000rpm and the DC-link
capacitance is 59.5μF. (a) Waveforms of grid power, inverter power, capacitor
power and its fundamental component. (b) Waveforms of the DC-link voltage, the
product of DC-link voltage and its derivative, and the fundamental component of
the product M. (c) Detailed waveform of the fundamental component of
capacitor power, M, and the estimated DC-link capacitance.
CONCLUSION:
As
for the reduced DC-link capacitance IPMSM drive system, a real-online DC-link
capacitance estimation method is investigated in this letter, which does not
need an additional signal injection. The power coupling characteristics are
analyzed, and the instantaneous DC-link capacitor power is obtained. The
DC-link capacitance could be estimated by the ratio of the fundamental
component of DC-link capacitor power and that of the product between DC-link
voltage and its derivative term. Moreover, the proposed method only depends on
the DC-link voltage and the instantaneous DC-link capacitor power, which
benefits its application in other motor type and load type reduced DC-link
capacitance motor drive system. Experimental results verify the effectiveness
of the proposed DC-link capacitance estimation method, which could realize the
estimation precision within an error of 1% for the several tens microfarad of
DC-link capacitance.
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