The electrical drive, to which the rigid or soft kite is coupled, is of pivotal importance since it controls the electromechanical energy conversion. The current trend of employing standard off-the-shelf three-phase drives is problematic because these are susceptible to common faults, such as partial or full inverter leg failure, which reduces not only the generated power up to 33%, but can also jeopardise the operation of the AWE system. The objective of this project is to employ six phase drives based on Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (IPMSM) for enhanced fault tolerance and power-to-weight ratio. High fidelity mathematical models, controller design in the healthy/post-fault cases as well as encoderless control were considered in this study.
Robust and Fault-Tolerant Low-Level Control of the Electrical Drive System
Robust and Fault-Tolerant Low-Level Control of the Electrical Drive System
Publications
Pre and Post-fault Current Control of Dual Three-Phase Reluctance Synchronous Drives.
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.
(2019).
Postfault Full Torque–Speed Exploitation of Dual Three-Phase IPMSM Drives.
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.
(2018).
Enhanced Electromechanical Modeling of Asymmetrical Dual Three-Phase IPMSM Drives.
2018 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE).
(2018).
Computationally Efficient Predictive Direct Torque Control Strategy for PMSGs without Weighting Factors.
PCIM Europe 2018; International Exhibition and Conference for Power Electronics, Intelligent Motion, Renewable Energy and Energy Management.
(2018).
Dynamic Modeling of Dual Three-Phase IPMSM Drives With Different Neutral Configurations.
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.
(2018).
A unified theory for optimal feedforward torque control of anisotropic synchronous machines.
International Journal of Control.
(2018).
A unified SVPWM realization for minimizing circulating currents of dual three phase machines.
2017 IEEE 12th International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS).
(2017).
Highly efficient fault-tolerant elelctrical drives for airborne wind energy systems.
Book of Abstracts of the International Airborne Wind Energy Conference (AWEC 2017).
(2017).
Analytical computation of the optimal reference currents for MTPC/MTPA, MTPV and MTPF operation of anisotropic synchronous machines considering stator resistance and mutual inductance.
2017 19th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE’17 ECCE Europe).
(2017).
Simple and robust direct-model predictive current control technique for PMSGs in variable-speed wind turbines.
2017 IEEE International Symposium on Predictive Control of Electrical Drives and Power Electronics (PRECEDE).
(2017).
Analytical solutions for the optimal reference currents for MTPC/MTPA, MTPV and MTPF control of anisotropic synchronous machines.
2017 IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC).
(2017).
Efficient operation of anisotropic synchronous machines for wind energy systems.
Journal of Physics: Conference Series.
(2016).