Title :
New measurement approach to variable speed drive testing based on multilevel multivariable experiments theory
Author :
De Capua, Claudio ; Landi, Carmine ; Polese, Nello
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Ingegneria Elettrica, Naples Univ., Italy
Abstract :
The authors firstly accomplish a description of the implemented automatic measurement station for efficiency measurements on high and low power electrical drives. Then, the adopted testing procedure, based on central composite rotatable design for multilevel multivariables, implemented to obtain the information requested to minimize the amount of measurements necessary to fully evaluate VSD performance, is discussed in detail. The paper is completed with a trial of the proposed methodology by means of experimental results obtained on a 380 V, 5 kW variable speed drive
Keywords :
AC motor drives; design of experiments; electric machine analysis computing; machine testing; power factor measurement; variable speed drives; virtual instrumentation; 380 V; 5 kW; VXI digitizer; automatic measurement station; central composite rotatable design; coded variables; efficiency measurements; high power electrical drives; low power electrical drives; measurement approach; multilevel multivariable experiments theory; optimal experiment design; power factor; variable speed drive testing; virtual instrument; Current measurement; Electric variables measurement; Performance evaluation; Power measurement; Rotation measurement; Testing; Torque measurement; Variable speed drives; Velocity measurement; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 1999. IMTC/99. Proceedings of the 16th IEEE
Conference_Location :
Venice
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5276-9
DOI :
10.1109/IMTC.1999.776978
