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COMPARISION BETWEEN TWO LEVEL AND THREE

LEVEL INVERTER FOR DIRECT TORQUE CONTROL
INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVE
Shailesh B. Kadu1, Prof. J.G. Choudhari2
Research Scholar (Department of Electrical Engineering, G.H.Raisoni College of Engineering/ RTMNU, India)

ABSTRACT-Direct torque control method is a powerful control technique for specially Induction motor drive.
Now a days Direct Torque Control using Digital signal processors more popular in the ac motor control, in
particular the induction motor drives. The quick response and smooth control of DSP's are being utilized to
perform real time simulation on the ac motor variables, such as electromagnetic torque, fluxes, mechanical
speed, etc. This paper presents the implementation of a high performance induction motor control technique
known as direct torque control (DTC) utilizing three level inverter and compare between basic DTC scheme and
modified DTC scheme(Three level inverter) to minimize the sampling period of the implemented drive system,
DTC drives. Experimental results of this high performance drive system on a5hp standard induction motor are
as expected and agree with the theoretical work Index term: Induction motor3phase, 5HP, Voltage source
Inverter

I. INTRODUCTION
IM control technique using direct torque control (DTC), was introduced about a few year ago,
has a relatively simple and wide range of control structure at least as good as the FOC technique . It
is also known that DTC drive is less sensitive to parameter changing. DTC method is based mainly on
space vector theory by selecting proper space vector voltage across the sampling period the required
control on stator flux and torque is obtain. The DTC drive consists of DTC controller, torque and flux
calculator, and a voltage source inverter (VSI) as depicted in Figure 1. The configuration is much
simpler than the FOC system. The technique can be easily implemented with using hysteresis
controllers that is one for torque and for flux. The implementation of DTC of IM, although simple but
requires a fast processor to perform real time simulation of electromagnetic torque and stator flux
based on sampled terminal variables. Still micro-controllers have been used extensively in scalar or
vector control of AC machines. However, to obtain a high performance and smooth control AC
Induction motor drives, use of a fast processor is required. The solution to this problem is to use a
processor that can perform fast calculations of the estimated values that in the case of DTC is the
torque and stator flux. With the current research trend in motion control, undoubtedly, the DSP-based
system will dominate the above problem. This is particularly true, example, with the newly introduced
DSP TMS320F2407 family and DSP controllers which are specifically designed for digital motor
control.

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Figure1. Basic Direct Torque Induction Scheme

II. CONCEPT OF DIRECT TORQUE CONTROL

IM having VSI connected has eight possible configurations of six switching devices within the
inverter. As a result, there are eight possible input voltage vectors to the IM. For controlling the stator
flux and torque DTC utilizes eight possible stator voltage vectors
Switching States of Phase Leg a of VSI:

Vab Va Vb
-

-------

(1)

Vbc Vb Vc
------- (2)

Vca Vc Va

------- (3)

Sa consisting of switching devices T1 and T4

III. SWITCHING STATES FOR VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER

Table: 1 Selections for Inverter switching states

In general, in a symmetrical three-phase induction machine, an instantaneous electromagnetic

torque is a cross product of the stator and rotor flux linkage space vector or stator current space vector
and stator flux linkage space vector
Te = 3/2Ps x Is ------- (4)
s= stator flux linkage space vector
Te = 3/2P/2 Lm/Ls srSin ----- (5)
In the above equation the electromagnetic torque given is a sinusoidal function of the angle
between the stator and rotor flux linkage space vector. The magnitude of the stator flux is normally
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kept constant and the motor torque is controlled by means of the angle .The variation stator flux will
produce a variation in the developed torque because of change in angle
Ie Te = 3/2P/2Lm/Ls (s+s) r Sin -------- (6)
It is therefore required to controlled torque very effectively by rotating the stator flux vector
directly in a given direction torque
switching frequency,

Figure: 2 Optimized Voltage Vector In The Torque Control

Stator flux behavior compared to rotor flux is shown in fig after step variation stator
pulsation, the initial pulsation and allows the step variation. Controlling the stator flux and
electromagnetic torque control achieved by using the appropriate stator voltages can quickly change
the electromagnetic torque. Choosing suitable voltage vectors which increases or decreases y the
causes the electromagnetic torque to increase or decrease.

Table: 2 Sector Selections for Direct Torque Control

Fig shows the partition of the complex plan in six angular sectors S I= 16
System core consists of a flux and torque calculated and from that width of the hysteresis can be
determine, a flux and speed controller and a torque are determine by two measure motor stator flux
current, the dc voltage and the state of the switches, references of flux and torque are compared with
actual value of flux and torque and two level for flux and three level for torque hysteresis control
method produces control signal
vs(t)=2/3(vsA(t)+avsB(t)+a2vsC(t)),where a=e2/3 --------(7)
vsA, vsB,vsC are the instantaneous phase that voltage
For the switching VSI it can be shown for a DC link voltage of Vd, the voltage space vector is given
by Sa(t), Sb(t), and Sc(t) are the switching functions of each leg of VSI, such that
The stator flux linkage of an IM can be expressed in the stationary reference frame (w=0) with the
help of the following two equations.
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dqs
ds
dt
d
Vds r s i ds ds qs
dt
Vqs r s i qs
-

--------- (8)
---------

(9)

The IM stator voltage equation which is in the stator reference frame (=0) is given by:

-----

(10)

Where Vs, Is, s are the stator voltage, current and stator flux space vectors respectively. According
to equation above if the stator resistance is small and can be neglected, the change in stator fluxThis
simply means that the tip of the stator flux will follow that of the stator voltage space vector
multiplied by the small change in time.

-------- (11)\
For one period of the voltage applied remain constant
----------- (12)
hence if the voltage drop due to stator resistance is ignored then above equation can be written
as

-------- (13)
Hence if the stator flux space vector (magnitude and angle) is known, its locus can be
controlled by selecting appropriate stator voltage vectors. In DTC the stator flux space vector is
obtained by calculation utilizing the motor terminal variables (stator voltages and currents). The stator
flux is forced to follow the reference value within a hysteresis band by selecting. The electromagnetic
torque is proportional to the vector product between stator vector and rotor flux and the expression is

-------- (14)
Where
s = stator vector flux
r = rotor vector flux and
= angle between stator and rotor flux vector
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The appropriate stator voltage vector is obtained using the hysteresis comparator and selection
table.

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IV. THREE LEVEL INVERTER
In three (multi level) level inverter harmonic analysis is in terms of Total Harmonic Distortion (THD)
for different power circuit topologies for induction motor drives. The most common multilevel
inverter are the neutral-point-clamped inverter (NPC), flying capacitor inverter (FC), and cascaded Hbridge inverter (CHB). After the performance analysis of these topologies of multilevel inverter and
various multi carrier PWM control techniques, results of the simulation are superiorior over two-level
pulse width modulation based inverter fed drives.

Figure 3 Three level direct torque control scheme

Voltage vector and voltage hexagon in three level inverter

V. SIMULATION RESULT OF THREE LEVEL INVERTER

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Figure 4 Plot of Stator current

Figure 5 Plot of Stator flux

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Figure 6 Plot of Torque
VI. CONCLUSION
This paper offers a modification in direct torque control method (DTC) to obtain fast and superior dynamic
torque response. Considering effects of load and velocity of motor, an optimized switching table (OST) which is
substantial factors in selecting appropriate vector, on changes of torque is proposed. Moreover, vector selection
among appropriate vectors is on the basis of producing the least torque ripple. Following are the determination
of OST, a closed-loop control strategy is presented for regulating voltage deviation of capacitors which
restricting them to specified limit Simulation results demonstrate that using the proposed technique fulfills this
objective even in the presence of pulsating torque. By comparing to the basic DTC method, it is substantiated
that exerting the offered method benefits a simple implementation and provides the possibility of reducing dc
link capacitor.

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