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Abstract-A Modified Z-Source Converter (MQZSC) is presented end converters are proposed in the literature. Increasing the
in this paper as a front end converter for the switched reluctance DC-link voltage in the magnetization and demagnetization
motor (SRM) drive system in order to perform voltage regulation will reduce magnetization and demagnetization time in the
and Power Factor Correction (PFC). In conventional SRM drive
SRM, subsequently performance is enhanced and operation
system pulsation current causes high Total Harmonic Distortion
range will be increased. Therefore most of the proposed front
(THD) in the input source and DC link voltage cannot be
controlled. In this paper using the MQZSC voltage of the DC link
end converters are from boosting nature. Also because of the
is regulated according to the operation mode and requirements of pulsed current that is derive from the input AC source by the
the drive system. Average Current Control (ACC) PFC has been SRM drive the input current is polluted with high order
integrated in to the control system of the front end converter to harmonics and also the power factor is weak. So in control of
reduce THD and enhance the power factor. Also an angle control the drive system power factor correction is one of the main
has been implemented in the SRM drive system to reduce the concerns.
torque ripple alongside the front end controller. A software In [8] a passive boost converter is used for the front end
simulation has been done to verify the proposed drive system.
converter to increase magnetization and demagnetization
voltage of the SRM, which enhance the operation of the
Keywords-MQZSC; SRM drive system; voltage regulation;
power factor correction system but lacks the switch mode to implement voltage
regulation. In [4]-[5], [9] different front end converters is used
I. INTRODUCTION to improve the power factor and THD of the drive system,
The switched reluctance motor is a reliable machine, which especially in [5] a current source converter is used.
can operate in wide range of speeds [1]. Also the torque is In [3] a drive system with a modified boost converter for the
independent of the direction of current, so the current can be SRM machine has been proposed, in this drive system with the
controlled with one switch instead of two switches in AC implication of the switch mode front end converter the applied
machines. But inductance of the SRM changes with the voltage to the SRM is regulated and a robust voltage and
current and rotor position, hence voltage must be applied current control is implanted to control the drive, but the
periodically for magnetization and demagnetization of each complicated control system makes the control hard to execute.
phase, so a special converter is needed in SRM drive to apply In [10] an integrated multi-port converter is proposed to
voltage and make possible the independent current control in reduce the DC-link capacitor size, which can be large due to
each phase [1]-[2]. Also the fluctuation of the inductance transient current commutation. In this research using Modified
makes the output torque of the SRM highly rippled and this in Quasi Z-Source Converter (MQSC) front end converter high
turn cause vibration and acoustic noise in the machine. magnetization voltage and DC-link voltage regulation is
The performance of a SRM drive system is greatly dependent implemented. In [11] a quasi-z source converter is
on the regulation of the DC-link voltage [3]-[5], also different implemented as the front end converter for the SRM drive. In
application of the SRM, such as: Electric vehicle, hybrid [11] the switch mUltiplexing technique is introduced to
electric vehicles, and battery charging require accurate DC integrate the Asymmetric H-Bridge Converter (ASHB) in to
link voltage adjustment [6]-[7]. Besides in the wide speed Quasi Z-Source Converter (QZSC) as it is in [10] to reduce the
operation tuning the DC-link voltage can compensate for the capacitor size. Also using the front end converter and
rising back EMF of the machine. repetitive controller voltage regulation in the DC link and
So to regulate the DC-link voltage subsequently control and power ripple reduction is achieved. But in this converter the
enhance the performance properties of the SRM various front
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ripple of the output torque is high, which in turn increase the voltage and demagnetization is a pulsed voltage with the
acoustic noise and vibration. frequency of the shoot through switch.
In this paper a modified quasi z source converter is introduced With higher voltages the drive can operate in higher speeds
as front end converter. In MQZSC the magnetizing and and larger loads, since the increment in the voltage will
demagnetizing port is decoupled, which prevent the current compensate for the rising back EMF voltage in higher speeds.
overlap of the subsequent phases in the SRM operation. In Also voltage chopping operation in higher current reference in
here also a turn on and turn off angle control is introduced to the speed-current controller of the SRM can be reached and
couple with the DC-link voltage regulation, which is subsequently according to (3) higher output torque can be
implemented by MQZSC, to reduce the torque ripple. In order achieved:
to coordinate the SRM current control and the voltage
regulation of the MQZSC a magnetization time controller (3)
loop is introduced to produce the reference of the DC-link
voltage controller. Also an average current control power Using this new MQZSC the input power of the ASHB can be
factor correction is implemented in the MQZSC control processed and the voltage can be regulated. So a sophisticated
system to reduce the high Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) control needs to be applied here to make the best of the
and increase the power factor, which is caused by transient proposed converter.
energy in current commutation. Also with this new converter magnetization and
demagnetization current flow in two different current passes in
II. FRONT END CONVERTER TOPOLOGY
result current overlap in the subsequent phases will not be of
The MQZSC is introduced here as front end converters of the concern and independent current control in each phase of the
SRM drive system. In this proposed alternation of the QZSC SRM can be achieved.
two outputs are detached from the converter to be applied to
the ASHB converter in the SRM, also a switch is implemented III. CONTROL STRATEGY
in the output to perform the shoot through operation. The With addition of MQZSC converter as the front end converter
MQZSC as the front end converter of the ASHB in the SRM is of the SRM drive system potentials to the new abilities of this
shown in Fig. 1. new converter is at reach. A sophisticated control system
needs to be designed to make maximum use of the new
abilities added to the drive system.
Switched reluctance motor has doubly salient structure (Fig.
2(a)); hence the produced torque by the SRM is polluted with
torque ripple. Torque ripple in SRM leads to more vibration
and acoustic noise. It also decreases the power factor and
increase THD in the input of the machine.
Torque in SRM is generated by the tendency of the rotor to
move to a position with less reluctance. With applying voltage
Fig. 1 topology of the proposed SRM drive to phase a rotor pole starts to rotate, moving the rotor from a
minimum inductance (L" ) toward maximum inductance (La)
In the MQZSC the magnetization voltage is applied from C"
which can be boosted appropriate to the performance with positive slope. After that the rotor pole reached the
priorities. Demagnetization voltage is applied from the series maximum inductance, which is the aligned postion with the
connection of C, and C2 therefore the demagnetization voltage stator pole, inductance linger in the aligned position for the
will be boosted more than magnetization, so magnetization time that stator and rotor are overlapped and the phase voltage
time will be reduced and operation in the negative torque of the next phase is applied and rotor pole moves toward the
generation will be prevented. The magnetization and next pole phase.
demagnetization voltage is shown in (1) and (2): Ideal inductance profile (neglecting fringing) of the SRM is
I-D V Peak ) shown in Fig. 2(b). To transfer maximum energy to the SRM
Vmag =
I- 2 � ( 'J2
s
(1) phases in each stroke, positive voltage in chopping mode
should be applied to the SRM in the rising inductance profile.
Also in order to prevent SRM to enter negative torque
1 V Peak production, in the negative slope of the inductance profile,
Vdemag =
1-2Ds ( 'J2 ) (2)
SRM phase should be demagnetized before entering negative
torque generation region.
In (1) and (2) Vmag and Vdemag are magnetization and One of the perks of the adding the proposed MQZSC as front
end converter is that the DC link capacitor can be removed.
demagnetization voltages respectively, Ds is the duty cycle of
va:eak is the peak value of the input
Because of the impedance network in the proposed converter
the MQZSC converter, and the output of the diode bridge can be connected directly to the
ac voltage. In these two detachments magnetization is a DC MQZSC. With the AC input in the proposed SRM drive power
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O.O-tS
0_04
O.oJ5
=- 0.03
'E"i 0.025
]: 0.02
0.015
a'
0.01 .----
Fig. 5 experimental inductance profile of the 8/6 4 phase SRM with different
phase currents
ad" (5)
V phase
(b)
Fig. 2 (a) stator and rotor pole structure for the 8/6 SRM (b) idealized and
experimental inductance profile and current of the motor
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8� is controlled
et using a PI controller and feed forward of its
reference. 8; is considered to be the end of a SRM stroke
Fig. 7 magnetization angle controller and MQZSC controller with ACC PFC
which in a 4ph 8/6 it is 60°. Because of the fluctuating nature of the SRM the produced
torque in the SRM is polluted with ripple. This varying
current and torque ripple causes power factor of the input
source to be deteriorated. Also the THD in the line current
,because of the variation nature of SRM current will be high in
SRM drive.
In the PFC the fact that the inductor current is tightly
Fig. 6 turn off angle controller block diagram controlled results in simple converter dynamics allowing
simple and robust wide band width control in the DC-DC
B. Magnetization and MQZSC control converter.
Block diagram of the proposed controller is shown in Fig. 7. The digital power factor correction method can be embedded
With applying turn on and turn off angle the phase is in this voltage regulation method without affecting its
constrained and energy transfer period could be decreased. operation.
Also in higher speeds when back EMF became more Average Current Control (ACC) method is chosen for PFC.
prominent magnetizing and demagnetizing times are longer ACC method is coordinated with MQZSC voltage controller,
,which in turn causes the conduction period to increase also which means that in this method inductor current will be made
this can increase the torque ripple if the turn on and turn off to be in phase with the input voltage, and in the same time
angle doesn't happen in the right moment. So in order to voltage of the capacitor C1 is controlled.
prevent these difficulties with using the proposed MQZSC the In Table 1 a comparison between the proposed drive system
applied voltage to the SRM phases can be regulated to reach and other drive systems in the literature with front end
the desired magnetizing time and demagnetizing time. Ideally converter has been done.
minimum 8mag and 8demag is desired but increasing voltage
IV. SIMULATION RESULTS
cause increased voltage stress on ASHB semiconductor
devices, also MQZSC efficiency and component voltage stress A software simulation of the proposed drive system has been
rises. So according to speed and performance of the SRM done. The characteristics of the drive system are shown in
Table 2. Also a comparison in the key operational elements is
8::£g is considered for this controller.
done between conventional SRM drive system and the
In this controller the error between 8::£g and 8mag is fed to a proposed drive system with and without the control system for
PI controller and the output of the PI controller produces a the front end converter. It is shown that the front end converter
voltage variation (tove) in the command voltage that makes and the proposed control reduce the torque ripple, increase the
the 8mag to reach the reference value. power transfer ratio in each cycle of the SRM period, reduce
As it is shown in Fig. 7 a dual loop indirect current programed the THD of the input current, increase the power factor in the
controller is chosen for MQZSC controller. Compared to input, and increase the high performance speed area of the
single loop controller, dual loop controller effectively SRM drive system.
regulates the inductor current during the transient event and
increases the stability limit of the system [15]. Also in order to
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Table I comparison between the proposed converter and other front end Table 2 Characteristics of the simulated drive system
converters in the literature
Parameter Value
Proposed [8] [3] [II] [9]
drive Speed reference ISOO rpm
system Load torque SN.m
Capacitors 2 2 2 2 2 C1 I.SmF
Inductors 2 I I 2 0 C2 ImF
Switches I 0 I 1 1 LI ImH
Diodes I 3 I 0 2 L2 ImH
Mag. voltage I-D V dc' I Vdc'
'V -,-v
Switching frequency of the 2SKHz
-- d
'" 2 v'"
7/d' J-2D, , 2 v'"
1-2D, MQZSC
O<D <I 05,D, <0.5
O�D, <0.5
without control also torque has been enhanced to some level To rque in M QZSC RM wUhoul control
with is due to increased voltage through front end converter. E ' '-OC������--C-�-'��
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As it was discussed in section III-B a power factor correction e"4
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