Authors : Amged El Wakeel, Usama Abou Zayed, Mohamed E. Metally and Ahmad Turk
Abstract: Switched Reluctance Motor (SRM) has become popular in various applications because of its high torque to inertia ratio, high efficiency, variable speed operation capabilities. The SRM primary drawback is torque ripples in the developed torque leading to notable noise and vibrations. Large torque ripples in SRM are due to the switching currents into its stator coils and its nonlinear magnetic nature during operation. By controlling and monitoring the torque of the SRM a significant decrease in torque ripples and even motor efficiency improvement can be carried out. In this study, two stochastic-based optimal PI controllers are used for speed control of an 8/6 SRM Model using MATLAB/Simulink tool with three types of torque sharing functions for torque ripple reduction and achieving overall performance improvement.
Amged El Wakeel, Usama Abou Zayed, Mohamed E. Metally and Ahmad Turk, 2018. Speed Control of 8/6 Switched Reluctance Motor Using Torque Ripple Reduction Techniques. International Journal of Soft Computing, 13: 158-166.