Recent challenges and reviews on sensorless, PWM techniques and controller possibilities of permanent magnet motors for electric vehicle applications

Abstract

Permanent Magnet Motor (PMM) demand is burgeoning with the trend of electro mobility opportunities flushed to reach sustainability in the world electric drive market. This paper presents a comprehensive review of the recent challenges in PMM and post-COVID-19 emerging options of PMM, freedom of choice of sensor/sensorless PMM, the list of PWM techniques, control opportunities, fault tolerant and future scopes of PMM. The PMM is widely used in electric vehicle (EV), beverage, food industries, aerospace, oil, paper industries and robotics. With the advancement of power converter circuits, efficient batteries, ultra-capacitors, control techniques and energy management schemes, the researchers have targeted their scope on PMMs. Recently, the conventional transportation has been initiated with the prioritized accessible power rating that ranges from 25 kW to above 300 kW realization of PMM. In addition, the annulment of the torque ripples due to the process of commutation. Hence, the prelim goal is to introduce a preferential commutation process which reverses the dc-link current by using a space vector modulation strategy in the field-oriented control (FOC)-adopted BLDC drive system. The validation of the developed SVPWM-based FOC control of BLDCM is accredited by MATLAB/Simulink and SPARTAN III Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) controller that includes real-time prototype. Experimentation validation confirms that the proposed SVPWM-FOC-BLDC system is efficient for the wide speed range without the reversal of dc-link current and torque ripple.

KEYWORDS:

• Permanent magnet motors
• pulse width modulation; control techniques
• electric vehicle
• smart city

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