Online Detection of High-Resistance Connections With Negative-Sequence Regulators in Three-Phase Induction Motor Drives

  • Michele Mengoni
  • , Luca Zarri
  • , Yasser Gritli
  • , Angelo Tani
  • , Fiorenzo Filippetti
  • , Sang Bin Lee

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    Abstract

    High-resistance connections in electric drives can cause localized overheating and motor supply voltage unbalance, which degrade the performance, efficiency, and reliability of the system. An enhanced field-oriented control scheme for induction machines that is capable of detecting resistive unbalance due to high-resistance connections, and regulating the negative-sequence current is proposed as the main contribution of this paper. Resistive unbalance is detected and located while maintaining the symmetric drive behavior both under transient and steady-state operating conditions. The negative-sequence regulator adopted in addition to the traditional current regulator for rotor field-oriented control is used to compensate for the voltage unbalance caused by the inherent asymmetries in the cable and stator winding and by the poor contacts. A model that shows the relationship between the resistive unbalance and negative-sequence current components is derived from the analysis of the proposed scheme. The theoretical analysis and the validity of the detection technique are confirmed with an experimental study on a 4-kW induction motor drive.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number6914615
    Pages (from-to)1579-1586
    Number of pages8
    JournalIEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
    Volume51
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2015 Mar 1

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    Keywords

    • High-resistance connections
    • fault detection
    • faulttolerant drive
    • induction motor drive

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Control and Systems Engineering
    • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
    • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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