Design of DC traction motor drives for high efficiency under accelerating conditions

Author

Famouri, Parviz ; Cooley, Wils L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV, USA

Volume

30

Issue

4

fYear

1994

Firstpage

1134

Lastpage

1138

Abstract

A design of a DC series motor drive that minimizes both armature and field winding copper losses is presented. A nonlinear feedback is first applied to linearize the system. A closed-form expression of optimal control that minimizes the total copper losses is derived using Pontryagin´s Maximum principle. A computer simulation of a conventional drive and the energy-efficient drive of the same size are presented. The energy consumption comparison is made to show the effectiveness of the control law. Finally, implementation techniques of the energy-efficient drive are discussed

Keywords

DC motors; electric drives; electric machine analysis computing; feedback; losses; machine control; machine windings; maximum principle; nonlinear control systems; optimal control; power consumption; traction; DC traction motor drives; Pontryagin´s Maximum principle; accelerating conditions; armature winding copper losses; closed-form expression; computer simulation; copper losses reduction; energy consumption; energy-efficient drive; field winding copper losses; high efficiency; nonlinear feedback; optimal control; system linearisation; Acceleration; Cables; Copper; DC motors; Equations; Heating; Motor drives; Optimal control; Torque; Traction motors;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Industry Applications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0093-9994

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/28.297932

Filename

297932