Directing at the nonideal trapezoidal back EMF and commutation in BLDC drives, a current optimization control method for torque ripple reduction is proposed in this paper. There are possibly three major considerations in this paper.
First, a reference current optimization method is proposed for the situation where the back EMF is a nonideal trape- zoidal waveform. Reference currents in two-phase conduction mode and commutation mode are optimized, respectively, in accordance with the back-EMF waveforms. In order to obtain back EMF in real time, it was a good choice to construct observers . In this paper, a Luenberger full-order observer is designed to estimate back-EMF waveforms .
Second, during commutation, commutation control with two-phase switching mode or three-phase switching mode is em-ployed to control the currents of noncommutated windings to trace the optimized reference current. The current rate of change of the noncommutated winding and the difference between the reference current and the actual current are used to determine whether the three-phase inverter works in two-phase switching mode or in three-phase switching mode, which avoids the possible wrong selection of control modes only by judging speed in conventional control methods.
Third, variable structure control (VSC) with the advantages of strong broadband noise-suppressing capacity and strong ro-bustness against external disturbances had been widely used in motor drives [25], [28]一【30]. Based on the advantages of VSC mentioned previously, current controllers using integral VSC(IVSC) are employed to realize current optimization control in both two-phase conduction mode and commutation mode.
The control law of IVSC is composed of continuous equivalent component and switch component; therefore, chatting phenomenon in nature is avoided. The proposed method in this paper can reduce torque ripple and can improve the control performance of a motor over a wide-speed range and wide-load range.
The rest of this paper is organized as follows. Section II describes the reference current optimization method in two- phase conduction mode and commutation mode. Section III describes the commutation methods in low- and high-speed modes. Section IV is the design of current controllers using NSC in two-phase conduction mode and commutation mode based on the different switch modulation methods. Section V is the design of a Luenberger full-order observer to estimate back-EMF waveforms in real time. The validity of the proposed method is verified experimentally in Section VI. Finally, the conclusion is given in Section VII.