Identification of the Mechanical Resonances of Electrical Drives for Automatic Commissioning

The mechanical system of a drive can often be modeled as a two- or three-mass-system. The load is coupled to the driv-ing motor by a shaft able to perform torsion oscillations. For the automatic tuning of the control, it is necessary to know the mathematical description of the system and the corresponding parameters. As the manpower and setup-time necessary during the commissioning of electrical drives are major cost factors, the development of self-operating identification strategies is a task worth pursuing. This paper presents an identification method which can be utilized for the assisted commissioning of electrical drives. The shaft assembly can be approximated as a two-mass non-rigid mechanical system with four parameters that have to be identified. The mathematical background for an identification procedure is developed and some important implementation issues are addressed. In order to avoid the excitation of the system with its natural resonance frequency, the frequency re-sponse can be obtained by exciting the system with a Pseudo Random Binary Signal (PRBS) and using the cross correla-tion function (CCF) and the auto correlation function (ACF). The reference torque is used as stimulation and the response is the mechanical speed. To determine the parameters, especially in advanced control schemes, a numerical algorithm with excellent convergence characteristics has also been used that can be implemented together with the proposed measurement procedure in order to assist the drive commissioning or to achieve an automatic setting of the control parameters. Simula-tions and experiments validate the efficiency and reliability of the identification procedure.

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[IEEE Style]

M. Pacas, S. Villwock, T. Eutebach, "Identification of the Mechanical Resonances of Electrical Drives for Automatic Commissioning," Journal of Power Electronics, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 198-205, 2005. DOI: 10.6113/JPE.2005.5.3.198.

[ACM Style]

Mario Pacas, Sebastian Villwock, and Thomas Eutebach. 2005. Identification of the Mechanical Resonances of Electrical Drives for Automatic Commissioning. Journal of Power Electronics, 5, 3, (2005), 198-205. DOI: 10.6113/JPE.2005.5.3.198.