Title :
Investigation of a fault tolerant and high performance motor drive for critical applications
Author :
Ertugrul, N. ; Soong, W.L. ; Valtenbergs, S. ; Chye, H.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Adelaide Univ., SA, Australia
Abstract :
This paper evaluates a fault-tolerant electric motor drive with redundancy for a potential all-electric aircraft (AEA), and investigates to increase the redundancy against partial or complete motor failures. A flexible motor configuration is proposed to increase the redundancy against motor failures. The paper highlights the importance of effectively simulating the system on computer, and the way in which the ideas and techniques used to simulate the system have been adapted to the physical prototype. The computer modelling section of the paper outlines the steps involved with simulating the complete system using an object orientated programming language, LabVIEW, and some simulation results are provided
Keywords :
aerospace control; avionics; brushless machines; control system analysis computing; electric machine analysis computing; electrical faults; fault tolerance; machine control; motor drives; permanent magnet motors; LabVIEW object-oriented programming language; all-electric aircraft; brushless PM motors; computer modelling; critical applications; fault tolerant motor drive; flexible motor configuration; high-performance motor drive; motor failures; redundancy; Aircraft; Computational modeling; Computer languages; Computer simulation; Electric motors; Fault tolerance; Motor drives; Physics computing; Redundancy; Virtual prototyping;
Conference_Titel :
TENCON 2001. Proceedings of IEEE Region 10 International Conference on Electrical and Electronic Technology
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7101-1
DOI :
10.1109/TENCON.2001.949653
