Development of PM brushless DC motor drive system for underwater applications

Author

Salah, Wael ; Ishak, Dahaman ; Hammadi, Khaleel J.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. Sains Malaysia, Nibong Tebal, Malaysia

fYear

2009

fDate

16-18 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

399

Lastpage

402

Abstract

In this paper, the BLDC motor control using rotor position sensing scheme is discussed. The implemented motor drive is controlled by an 8-bit microcontroller PIC18F4431 for driving the power inverter bridge. The use of microcontroller in the drive system will provide flexible and on-line source code modifications in accordance with the motor and circuit requirements. Hardware implementations which have been built consist of a control board, power inverter board and 6-slot/4-pole permanent magnet brushless motor for underwater applications. The information about rotor positions of BLDC motor is obtained using the built-in Hall Effect sensors mounted inside stator iron. Hence, a proper driving sequence for the BLDC motor has been successfully generated as validated by the experiment.

Keywords

brushless DC motors; invertors; microcontrollers; permanent magnet motors; poles and zeros; rotors; sensors; stators; synchronous motor drives; underwater vehicles; BLDC motor control; PIC18F4431 microcontroller; PM brushless dc motor drive system; hall effect sensors; pole permanent magnet brushless motor; power inverter bridge; rotor position sensing scheme; stator iron; underwater applications; Bridge circuits; Brushless DC motors; DC motors; Flexible printed circuits; Inverters; Microcontrollers; Micromotors; Motor drives; Permanent magnet motors; Rotors; BLDC; Microcontroller; Motor Drive; Permenant Magnet; Underwater;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Research and Development (SCOReD), 2009 IEEE Student Conference on

Conference_Location

UPM Serdang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5186-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5187-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCORED.2009.5442989

Filename

5442989