DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION

OF ROTOR POSITION ENCODER

FOR SRM DRIVE

Project proposed by:

R.MANIVANNAN 31505105064
S.MODIESH KUMAR 31505105067
R.RAM NARAYAN 31505105090

PROJECT GUIDE : Mrs.Deepalakshmi

 Objective of the work

To design a low cost rotor position

Encoder for Wide speed operation of
switched reluctance motor drive.
 Methodology
 Implementation of Open loop control using Conventional
Rotor position sensing.
 
 Analysis
 
 Implementation of Open loop control using Rotor position
Encoder.
 
 Analysis
 
 Performance Analysis
Basic Structure of 8/6 SRM
SRM Geometry Details
 No of phase :4
 NO of stator poles :8
 Max Power Output : 5 hp
 NO of rotor poles :6
 Max input voltage : 200 V
 Max input current : 13 A
 Air Gap : 0.5 mm
 Stator pole arc : 18 deg
 Rotor pole arc : 22 deg
 Rotor outer diameter : 100.6 mm
 Stator outer diameter : 190 mm
 Rotor pole height : 19.8 mm
 No of turns per phase : 154
 Stator Material : M43 Steel
Proposed Encoder :
Advantages of Encoder as position sensor:

 In the proposed encoder the number of position sensors

required is only one.

 Here the rotor position information from the encoder acts

as input data for stator pole excitation.

 Also the encoder output can be used to calculate the

speed of the rotor.

 With the use of Encoding technique control over the

duration of excitation of each stator phase is achieved,
whose resolution depends on the number of strips used
in the encoder design.
Work done so far….

• Implemented the basic sensor circuit and

worked on its sensitivity.
• Measured the inductance profile of one of
the stator phase for one revolution and
plotted the appropriate graph.
• designed the optocoupler circuit which is
needed for isolating the low and high
power circuits.
• Designed the microcontroller circuit using
Eagle software on printed circuit board.
• Using MPLAB programmed the coding for
open loop operation and verified the
output.
• Designed the sensor setup required for
providing the necessary rotor position.
• Provided the necessary gate pulse and
checked the working of converter circuit.
• Finally interfaced all the circuits and made
the motor to run using these circuits for
conventional rotor position sensing
technique.
• Verified the encoder logic using single
position sensor for the motor using
breadboard.
Output of optocoupler
Specification:
For regulator and optocoupler circuit:
• IC7805-5V Regulator
• IC7812-12V Regulator
• 1n4007-Rectifier diode
• IC 4N35-optocoupler IC
R dump Converter circuit
Specification:
For the converter circuit:
• Power MOSFET-IRFP460(200v,6A)
• 1N5408-Freewheeling diode
• Power rectifier diode(400v,6A)
• Filter capacitor-(160v,470uF)
• R-dump resistor-(10 ohm,5 watt)
• R-dump capacitor-(250v,47uF)
PIC18F2550 PIN DIAGRAM:
Micro controller for conventional
rotor position sensing
Microcontroller for encoder logic
Conventional open loop control
kit for SRM motor
 Work Schedule

Phase 1 Literature survey 25 days September -

October
Phase 2` Implementation of Open loop 30 days December -
control using Conventional Rotor January
position sensing
Phase 3 Analysis of results 20 days February –
March

Phase 4 Implementation of Open loop 30 days March

control using Rotor position
Encoder
Phase 5 Report 5 days April
References:
 Han-Woong Park   Sung-Jun Park   Man-Hyung Lee   Jin-Gil Park  
Cheul-U Kim   Young-Moon Hwang Dept. of Electrical Engineering,
Korea Naval Acad., Jinhae , “A wide speed operation of SRM
using low cost encoder”, Proceedings of Industrial Electronics
society,2000.IECON 2000.26th Annual Conference of the IEEE on
vol.3, pp. 1943-1948 ,Oct 22-28,2000.

 Sung-Jun Park; Jin-Woo Ahn; Man-Hyung Lee; Lipo, “Novel

encoder for SRM drive with high resolution angle control”
T.A.Industrial Electronics, 2001. Proceedings. ISIE 2001. IEEE
International Symposium on Volume 3, Issue , 2001 Page(s):1781 -
1785 vol.3
 Kjaer, P.C.; Gallegos-Lopez, “Single-sensor current regulation in
switched reluctance motor drives.” G.Industry Applications, IEEE
Transactions on Volume 34, Issue 3, May/Jun 1998 ,Page(s):444 – 451

T. J. E. Miller, Switched Reluctance Motors and Their Control, Magna

Physics Publishing and Clarendon press, Oxford, 1993.

 R. Krishnan, Switched Reluctance Motor Drives: Modeling,

Simulation, Analysis, Design, and Applications, CRC Press, 2001.
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