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Vol. 17 No. 2 (2021)

Published: December 31, 2021

Pages: 129-139

Original Article

Optimized Sliding Mode Control of Three-Phase Four-Switch Inverter BLDC Motor Drive Using LFD Algorithm

Quasy S. Kadhim 1 Abbas H. Abbas Mohammed M. Ezzaldean 2
1Electrical Engineering Department, University of Basrah, Iraq
2Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Technology, Iraq
History
  • Received: August 4, 2021
  • Revised: September 6, 2021
  • Accepted: September 9, 2021
  • Available Online: September 10, 2021
DOI

https://doi.org/10.37917/ijeee.17.2.15

Abstract

This paper presents a low-cost Brushless DC (BLDC) motor drive system with fewer switches. BLDC motors are widely utilized in variable speed drives and industrial applications due to their high efficiency, high power factor, high torque, low maintenance, and ease of control. The proposed control strategy for robust speed control is dependent on two feedback signals which are speed sensor loop which is regulated by Sliding Mode Controller (SMC) and current sensor loop which is regulated by Proportional-Integral (PI) for boosting the drive system adaptability. In this work, the BLDC motor is driven by a four-switch three-phase inverter emulating a three-phase six switch inverter, to reduce switching losses with a low complex control strategy. In order to reach a robust performance of the proposed control strategy, the Lévy Flight Distribution (LFD) technique is used to tune the gains of PI and SMC parameters. The Integral Time Absolute Error (ITAE) is used as a fitness function. The simulation results show the SMC with LFD technique has superiority over conventional SMC and optimization PI controller in terms of fast-tracking to the desired value, reduction speed error to the zero value, and low overshoot under sudden change conditions.

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