Abstract
This paper presents a switched reluctance motor (SRM) drive powered by a three-phase single-switch (3P1SW) switch-mode rectifier (SMR). The digital controls of both power stages are realized in a common DSP. In the front-end SMR, a robust current harmonic cancellation scheme and a robust voltage control scheme are developed. The undesired line current and output voltage ripples are regarded as disturbances and they are reduced via the proposed robust controls. In voltage control, a feedback controller is augmented with a simple robust error canceller. The robust cancellation weighting factor is automatically tuned according to load level to yield compromised voltage and power quality control performances. The chaotic phenomena can be automatically avoided and better SMR operating performance is obtained simultaneously. With boostable and regulated dc-link voltage, the current and speed dynamic responses of the followed SRM drive are enhanced, and the vibration and speed ripple are also lessened. As to the SRM drive, a random-band hysteresis current-controlled pulsewidth modulation (CCPWM) scheme (RB-HCCPWM) with harmonic spectrum shaping is developed and applied for its winding excitation control. The winding current harmonic spectrum is more dispersedly distributed to yield reduced stator vibration and speed ripple. Moreover, the commutation advanced shift is applied to yield further performance improvement of SRM drive. © 2006 IEEE.