Mohammad Sandidzadeh

By Mohammad Ali Sandidzadeh and Babak Shamszadeh

Part of the book: Reliability and Safety in Railway

By Mohammad Ali Sandidzadeh and Amin Shafipour

Part of the book: Infrastructure Design, Signalling and Security in Railway

By Mohammad Ali Sandidzadeh, Amir Ebrahimi and Amir Heydari

In this chapter, a new method for stator resistance compensation in direct torque control (DTC) drives, based on neural networks, is presented. The estimation of electromagnetic torque and stator flux linkages using the measured stator voltages and currents is crucial to the success of DTC drives. The estimation is dependent only on one machine parameter, which is the stator resistance. Changes of the stator resistances cause errors in the estimated magnitude and position of the flux linkage and therefore in the estimated electromagnetic torque. Parameter compensation by means of stator current phasor error has been proposed in literature. The proposed approach in this chapter is based on a principle that states the error between the measured current magnitude of the stator feedback and the stator’s command, verified with neural network, is proportional to the variation of the stator resistance and is mainly caused by the motor temperature and the varying stator frequency. Then the correction value of stator resistance is achieved by means of a fuzzy controller. For the first time, a combination of neural control and fuzzy control approach in stator resistance variations based on the stator current is presented. The presented approach efficiently estimates the correct value of stator resistance.

Part of the book: Induction Motors