Experimental Verification of Fault Tolerant Operation Focusing on DC-Bus Battery Failure in Dual Inverter Motor Drive

Recently, a dual inverter motor drive feeding an open-end winding permanent magnet (PM) motor has been studied, aiming for the improvement of total efficiency and a fault tolerant function of hybrid and electric vehicles. The authors have studied the fault tolerant operation of the DC-bus battery, w...

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Main Authors: Yoshiaki Oto, Toshihiko Noguchi, Melinda Badriatul Fauziah
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-10-01
Series:World Electric Vehicle Journal
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2032-6653/10/4/65
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description Recently, a dual inverter motor drive feeding an open-end winding permanent magnet (PM) motor has been studied, aiming for the improvement of total efficiency and a fault tolerant function of hybrid and electric vehicles. The authors have studied the fault tolerant operation of the DC-bus battery, where the failed inverter is operated only with a capacitor across the DC-bus and a space vector modulation (SVM) is employed to regulate the capacitor voltage. In our previous research, the SVM techniques for the fault tolerant operation in a low-modulation-index have been proposed. However, it was difficult to have fault tolerance in a high-modulation-index case. The voltage margin in the fault situation is limited because the failed inverter is operated with the capacitor. In this paper, the SVM technique to achieve the fault tolerant operation in the high-modulation-index state is investigated. The novel point of this paper is that the proposed technique introduces a field-weakening control in order to reduce the command voltage vector within the controllable voltage region. The proposed technique was verified through experimental tests and its operational characteristics were compared with the normal operation, from the viewpoints of the total harmonic distortion (THD) and the efficiencies of the inverters and the motor.
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spelling doaj.art-f0029a9d71e6428c89114626229321372022-12-22T03:09:54ZengMDPI AGWorld Electric Vehicle Journal2032-66532019-10-011046510.3390/wevj10040065wevj10040065Experimental Verification of Fault Tolerant Operation Focusing on DC-Bus Battery Failure in Dual Inverter Motor DriveYoshiaki Oto0Toshihiko Noguchi1Melinda Badriatul Fauziah2Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu 432-8561, JapanDepartment of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu 432-8561, JapanDepartment of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu 432-8561, JapanRecently, a dual inverter motor drive feeding an open-end winding permanent magnet (PM) motor has been studied, aiming for the improvement of total efficiency and a fault tolerant function of hybrid and electric vehicles. The authors have studied the fault tolerant operation of the DC-bus battery, where the failed inverter is operated only with a capacitor across the DC-bus and a space vector modulation (SVM) is employed to regulate the capacitor voltage. In our previous research, the SVM techniques for the fault tolerant operation in a low-modulation-index have been proposed. However, it was difficult to have fault tolerance in a high-modulation-index case. The voltage margin in the fault situation is limited because the failed inverter is operated with the capacitor. In this paper, the SVM technique to achieve the fault tolerant operation in the high-modulation-index state is investigated. The novel point of this paper is that the proposed technique introduces a field-weakening control in order to reduce the command voltage vector within the controllable voltage region. The proposed technique was verified through experimental tests and its operational characteristics were compared with the normal operation, from the viewpoints of the total harmonic distortion (THD) and the efficiencies of the inverters and the motor.https://www.mdpi.com/2032-6653/10/4/65dual inverter motor drivespace vector modulationfault tolerant operationcapacitor voltage controlopen-end winding pm motor
spellingShingle Yoshiaki Oto
Toshihiko Noguchi
Melinda Badriatul Fauziah
Experimental Verification of Fault Tolerant Operation Focusing on DC-Bus Battery Failure in Dual Inverter Motor Drive
World Electric Vehicle Journal
dual inverter motor drive
space vector modulation
fault tolerant operation
capacitor voltage control
open-end winding pm motor
title Experimental Verification of Fault Tolerant Operation Focusing on DC-Bus Battery Failure in Dual Inverter Motor Drive
title_full Experimental Verification of Fault Tolerant Operation Focusing on DC-Bus Battery Failure in Dual Inverter Motor Drive
title_fullStr Experimental Verification of Fault Tolerant Operation Focusing on DC-Bus Battery Failure in Dual Inverter Motor Drive
title_full_unstemmed Experimental Verification of Fault Tolerant Operation Focusing on DC-Bus Battery Failure in Dual Inverter Motor Drive
title_short Experimental Verification of Fault Tolerant Operation Focusing on DC-Bus Battery Failure in Dual Inverter Motor Drive
title_sort experimental verification of fault tolerant operation focusing on dc bus battery failure in dual inverter motor drive
topic dual inverter motor drive
space vector modulation
fault tolerant operation
capacitor voltage control
open-end winding pm motor
url https://www.mdpi.com/2032-6653/10/4/65
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