This paper presents a new approach to the sensorless control of the switched-reluctance motor (SRM). The basic premise of the method is that an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) forms a very efficient mapping structure for the nonlinear SRM. Through measurement of the phase flux linkages and phase currents the neural network is able to estimate the rotor position, thereby facilitating elimination...

A switched Reluctance motor (SRM) has several desirable features, including simple construction, high reliability and low cost. However, it suffers from large torque ripple, highly non-uniform torque output and magnetization characteristics and large noise. Several studies have succeeded in torque ripple reduction for SRM using Direct Torque Control (DTC) technique. DTC method has many advantag...

Position sensor is the key of exact commutation for switched reluctance motor (SRM). When position sensor is faulted, some phase information of commutation will be lost, causes torque decrease, affects the system reliability. Through the analysis of the fault position signals, a real-time diagnostic method that detected the edge sequences of position signals and calculated the angle between the...

A fuzzy-logic-based turn-off angle compensator for torque ripple reduction in a switched reluctance motor is proposed. The turn-off angle, as a complex function of motor speed and current, is automatically changed for a wide motor speed range to reduce torque ripple. Experimental results are presented that show ripple reduction when the turn-off angle compensator is used.

We present a solution to torque ripple minimization in switched reluctance motors (SRM) based on set invariance theory. We start from a piecewise affine approximation (PWA) of the overall torque characteristics over rotor angle – phase currents space and derive a PWA motor model. Within it we also take into account finite bandwidth of the phase current control loops. Using the PWA model and inv...

Switched reluctance motor (SRM) is an energy converter that converts an electrical energy to mechanical energy in motoring operation and vice-versa in generating operation. When the rotor is out of alignment, the inductance is very low and the current also increase rapidly. The rotor is aligned with the stator then the inductance become very large. In the simulation results, how the rotor minim...