Design and implementation of field‑oriented control based permanent magnet synchronous motor drives for electric three‑wheelers

Namitha Murali; V.P. Mini; S. Ushakumari

Design and implementation of field‑oriented control based permanent magnet synchronous motor drives for electric three‑wheelers

Namitha Murali

V.P. Mini

S. Ushakumari

Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 637-648, Apr. 2023

10.1007/s43236-023-00597-0

Electric three-wheeler

Torque mode speed mode

Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors

Field oriented control

Abstract

Among electric vehicles, electric three-wheelers are mostly used by the general public for their daily transportation. Hence, it is very important to provide bulk production of electric three-wheelers with better features and lower cost. These days, brushless direct current motors are being replaced with permanent magnet synchronous motors because of their high torque production at low speeds and high efficiency. For the drive train control part of a permanent magnet synchronous motor drive, a field-oriented controller is better because of its independent torque and speed control. This controller provides two modes of operation: torque mode and speed mode. Currently, most researchers are concentrating on the speed mode of field-oriented controllers. However, in a real electric vehicle, torque mode is necessary to drive in any terrain. In this paper, the field-oriented control-based torque mode operation of a permanent magnet synchronous motor drive for an electric three-wheeler application is discussed and validated. Performance analyses of the two modes of operation and experimental validation of the torque mode are carried out. The hardware development of an electric three-wheeler with the torque mode of a field-oriented controller based permanent magnet synchronous motor drive is realized. Finally, paper is concluded with an economic analysis of the developed electric three-wheeler in comparison with an available internal combustion enginebased three-wheeler.

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[IEEE Style]

N. Murali, V. Mini, S. Ushakumari, "Design and implementation of field‑oriented control based permanent magnet synchronous motor drives for electric three‑wheelers," Journal of Power Electronics, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 637-648, 2023. DOI: 10.1007/s43236-023-00597-0.

[ACM Style]

Namitha Murali, V.P. Mini, and S. Ushakumari. 2023. Design and implementation of field‑oriented control based permanent magnet synchronous motor drives for electric three‑wheelers. Journal of Power Electronics, 23, 4, (2023), 637-648. DOI: 10.1007/s43236-023-00597-0.