{"title":"Low Reverse Recovery Stress in High Power Converters achieved by Self-Resetting Saturable Reactors","authors":"H. Gruening, K. Koyanagi, M. Mukunoki","doi":"10.1109/PCCON.2007.373161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PCCON.2007.373161","url":null,"abstract":"A clamp circuit using non-linear reactors is proposed for the application with high power inverters. For stable inverter operation under all typical operation conditions the cores receive self-resetting characteristics by implementation of a base inductance value in the non-saturated state through air-gap or inductor paralleling. Various circuit configurations investigated by a 6 kA-6 kV-GCT chopper setup are compared to a traditional clamp using a linear anode reactor. New simulation models developed for the cores and diodes are tuned by the experimental results and applied to investigate 2-level and 3-level circuits. Using self-resetting saturable reactors, low freewheel diode reverse recovery stress is achieved especially at small load current even at a very high value of dl/dt.","PeriodicalId":325362,"journal":{"name":"2007 Power Conversion Conference - Nagoya","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133178923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fundamental characteristics of a small actuator with a magnetically levitated mover","authors":"Y. Ueda, H. Ohsaki","doi":"10.1109/PCCON.2007.373030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PCCON.2007.373030","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, further improvement of performance of actuators is required to realize high performance and efficient systems. Direct drive of multi-degrees of freedom is one of the expected technologies for the future. This paper deals with a small actuator for multi-degrees of freedom, which has a mover consisting of Halbach permanent magnets and air-core armature conductors arranged in a multi-layers printed circuit board. This paper presents investigation of electromagnetic force characteristics for six degrees of freedom by numerical analysis and stability of the mover motion for six degrees of freedom.","PeriodicalId":325362,"journal":{"name":"2007 Power Conversion Conference - Nagoya","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133615654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improvement of Input Current Waveforms for a Matrix Converter Using a Novel Hybrid Commutation Method","authors":"K. Kato, J. Itoh","doi":"10.1109/PCCON.2007.373053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PCCON.2007.373053","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a novel hybrid commutation method and a compensation method for the output voltage error and input current error of a matrix converter in order to improve the input current. The proposed commutation method combines input voltage commutation and load current commutation. There are two conventional commutation methods; one that depends on the polarity of the input line voltage and is called voltage commutation, and one that depends on the polarity of the output current and is called current commutation. However, a problem with voltage commutation is that commutation failure occurs at around an input line voltage of zero. It is difficult to detect the voltage polarity due to dependence on the offset and delay of the sensor. Similarly, current commutation failure occurs at around a load current of zero. The cause of these detection errors are detection delay and the offset of the sensor. However, the proposed commutation method can decrease the commutation failure without the need for a high accuracy sensor, because the current commutation is compensated by the voltage commutation. In addition, a new commutation error compensation method is proposed for the proposed commutation. The output voltage and input current error are compensated at the same time, because the duty ratio of each switch is directly compensated. The proposed method is validated based on the experimental results with a 750 W induction motor and a R-L load. The total harmonic distortion (THD) of the input current and the output current with the proposed hybrid commutation are 3.9% and 2.1%, respectively, and are obtained for an induction motor load with vector control.","PeriodicalId":325362,"journal":{"name":"2007 Power Conversion Conference - Nagoya","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133958898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Initial Pole Position Estimation of IPMSM with DC Link Current Measurement - Approach for Weak Saturation Effect Machines","authors":"H. Kubota, Y. Shibano","doi":"10.1109/PCCON.2007.372984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PCCON.2007.372984","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an initial pole position estimation method for low cost system which measures only the DC link current of inverters. The PWM patterns are restricted for this system in order to detect the phase currents. The saturation effect for the tested IPMSM is very weak. So, a method applicable to weak saturation effect machines is investigated.","PeriodicalId":325362,"journal":{"name":"2007 Power Conversion Conference - Nagoya","volume":"221 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131786853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of Active Filters with Spiral Vector Theory","authors":"K. Seki","doi":"10.1109/PCCON.2007.373017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PCCON.2007.373017","url":null,"abstract":"The paper develops active filters according to spiral vector theory that has a definition of instantaneous reactive power in single-phase networks. At first, the paper obtains rms active and reactive power with integral method and shows that they are the same in a steady state condition and in a transient state condition, then it obtains the system voltage with least square method and the system current that has a sinusoidal waveform. The harmonic currents are equal to the load current minus the system current and it used as the output of an active filter.","PeriodicalId":325362,"journal":{"name":"2007 Power Conversion Conference - Nagoya","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114385584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigation on Operating Characteristics of Individual Cells in a Lead-Acid Battery Pack","authors":"Y. Hsieh, W. Chen, K. Ng, C. Moo","doi":"10.1109/PCCON.2007.373050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PCCON.2007.373050","url":null,"abstract":"Similar to series-connected batteries, series-connected cells in a battery pack also suffer from the perplexity of unbalanced voltage while charging or discharging processes, especially for lead-acid batteries. This paper is to study the impact on capacity reduction under different operation conditions, such as different float-charging voltages, different cut-off discharging voltages and even discharging to negative voltages. The results reveal that the health of battery cells is more significantly affected by float-charging voltage than by the discharging cut-off voltage. However, discharging a cell into exceedingly negative voltage incurs a destructive consequence. A bypass protection circuit is proposed to mitigate the deterioration rate of battery cells. Experimental results show that the capacity reduction rate can be decreased distinctly.","PeriodicalId":325362,"journal":{"name":"2007 Power Conversion Conference - Nagoya","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124672789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Torque Distribution Method Using CCD Cameras That Is Suitable for Electric Vehicles Driven by Front and Rear Wheels Independently","authors":"N. Mutoh, K. Yokota","doi":"10.1109/PCCON.2007.373082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PCCON.2007.373082","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a method to distribute driving and breaking torques to electric vehicles (EVs) driven by front and rear wheels independently while estimating the distance between an obstacle and the running vehicle and the road surface situations using CCD cameras. The method is comprised of braking torque distribution procedures to control wheel locks generated due to load movement occurring every time braking operations are performed and driving torque distribution procedures to control wheel spins occurring when vehicles are accelerated on bad roads with low friction coefficients. The former distributes the braking torque to the front and rear wheels based on the distance between the vehicle and an obstacle which is calculated using the information acquired from CCD cameras while taking the load movement into consideration. The latter determines the driving torque distributed to the wheels based on a friction coefficient predicted from the front road surface state obtained from the CCD cameras. Effectiveness of the torque distribution method is verified through simulations and experiments.","PeriodicalId":325362,"journal":{"name":"2007 Power Conversion Conference - Nagoya","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124865189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Min-huei Kim, W. Baik, Dong-Hee Kim, Kyeong-Ho Choi
{"title":"A High Performance Position Control System of Switched Reluctance Motor","authors":"Min-huei Kim, W. Baik, Dong-Hee Kim, Kyeong-Ho Choi","doi":"10.1109/PCCON.2007.372975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PCCON.2007.372975","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a high performance position control system of switched reluctance motor (SRM). Recently, the variable-speed and servo drive systems have been developed because of industrial automation. One of the possible electrical machines in modern servo drive system is the SRM. The control of SRM drive system requires several controllers including switching angle and current controller. Generally switching angle controller is used to increase the drive efficiency, while current controller is adapted to control the electromagnetic torque and to prohibit the over-current. Due to the development of high performance micro-controllers, such as TMS320F2812 Digital Signal Processor (DSP), many complicated control algorithms can be realized. In this paper, a position control system of SRM is suggested to verify the possibility of SRM in servo drive application. A prototype 1-hp SRM is used to prove the validity of this algorithm.","PeriodicalId":325362,"journal":{"name":"2007 Power Conversion Conference - Nagoya","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122877943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Practical Approach to Eliminating DC Magnetic Flux from the Series Transformer of a Dynamic Voltage Restorer","authors":"T. Jimichi, H. Fujita, H. Akagi","doi":"10.1109/PCCON.2007.373187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PCCON.2007.373187","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a control method for eliminating dc magnetic flux from the series transformer of a DVR. The method is characterized by intentionally injecting no compensating voltage during a one-sixth line cycle (=3.3 ms at 50 Hz). The control sequence is independent of an initial phase angle of a voltage sag, thus requiring no flux detection. The period, during which no compensating voltage is injected, is one-third as short as that of an existing method. This paper verifies the effectiveness and viability of the proposed method, using a 200-V, 5-kW laboratory system. The proposed method brings no dc magnetic flux to the series transformer.","PeriodicalId":325362,"journal":{"name":"2007 Power Conversion Conference - Nagoya","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125311257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Izumi, Y. Ibuki, M. Yamashita, H. Shimizu, S. Nakayama, H. Abe
{"title":"High-Efficient Linear Oscillatory Actuator Drive Systems Optimized Current Waveformn","authors":"T. Izumi, Y. Ibuki, M. Yamashita, H. Shimizu, S. Nakayama, H. Abe","doi":"10.1109/PCCON.2007.373077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PCCON.2007.373077","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose the novel method of improving efficiency of LOA. This method can be realized using the optimal current waveform. The current waveform satisfy the appropriate excitation force and the minimized copper loss. Accordingly, the current waveform can be easily shaped by usual inverter. The method was lead to the study of the electro-mechanical transduction model and the energy flow model. As an experimental result, efficiency was improved approximately 24%. Loss was reduced approximately 40%.","PeriodicalId":325362,"journal":{"name":"2007 Power Conversion Conference - Nagoya","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129544699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}