MODEL REFERENCE ADAPTIVE CONTROL OF RIPPLE REDUCED SRM DRIVES

Abstract

The paper proposes a model reference adaptive control method for SRM drives. The main goal of the drive control is to improve dynamical performance by compensating for the motor nonlinearities. The proposed ripple reduced method changes only the turn-on and the turn-off angle in function of the speed and current reference. One of the advantages of using this method is that it does not need the real-time calculation or measuring the motor torque. Simulation and experimental results are presented.