Passivity-Based Control of Saturated Induction Motors

Levent U. Gökdere, Rockwell Science Center
Marwan A. Simaan, University of Pittsburgh
Charles W. Brice, University of South Carolina - Columbia

Abstract

A passivity-based controller, which takes into Account saturation of the magnetic material in the main flux path of the induction motor, is developed to provide close tracking of time-varying speed and flux trajectories in the high magnetic saturation regions. The proposed passivity-based controller is experimentally verified. Also, A comparison between the controllers based on the saturated and nonsaturated magnetics is presented to demonstrate the benefit of the controller based on the saturated magnetics.