On the Unification of Optimal Current Reference Theory for Wound Rotor Synchronous Machines
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| author | Parson-Scherban, Maxfield Fallah, Kasra Rahbariasr, Navid Steyaert, Bernard Anderson, James Preindl, Matthias |
| author_facet | Parson-Scherban, Maxfield Fallah, Kasra Rahbariasr, Navid Steyaert, Bernard Anderson, James Preindl, Matthias |
| contents | Controllers for motor drives typically require a current reference which will satisfy the requested torque subject to system constraints. This work generalizes existing current reference theory to the case of the Wound Rotor Synchronous Machine (WRSM). By incorporating the additional rotor-current degree-of-freedom, along with magnetic saturation, cross-coupling, and speed-dependent core losses, the problem of finding an optimal current reference is formulated within affine flux regions as a quadratically constrained quadratic program using a piecewise-affine approximation derived from finite-element data. The solution is characterized according to the active constraint regime, yielding closed-form or low-dimensional polynomial solutions in several cases, and a small semidefinite program in the voltage constrained regime. The proposed framework extends unified optimal current reference theory beyond the permanent-magnet setting to three degree-of-freedom WRSMs while remaining computationally tractable. Results on a physical WRSM prototype illustrate the effectiveness of the approach across the torque-speed operating envelope. |
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| spellingShingle | On the Unification of Optimal Current Reference Theory for Wound Rotor Synchronous Machines Parson-Scherban, Maxfield Fallah, Kasra Rahbariasr, Navid Steyaert, Bernard Anderson, James Preindl, Matthias Systems and Control Optimization and Control Controllers for motor drives typically require a current reference which will satisfy the requested torque subject to system constraints. This work generalizes existing current reference theory to the case of the Wound Rotor Synchronous Machine (WRSM). By incorporating the additional rotor-current degree-of-freedom, along with magnetic saturation, cross-coupling, and speed-dependent core losses, the problem of finding an optimal current reference is formulated within affine flux regions as a quadratically constrained quadratic program using a piecewise-affine approximation derived from finite-element data. The solution is characterized according to the active constraint regime, yielding closed-form or low-dimensional polynomial solutions in several cases, and a small semidefinite program in the voltage constrained regime. The proposed framework extends unified optimal current reference theory beyond the permanent-magnet setting to three degree-of-freedom WRSMs while remaining computationally tractable. Results on a physical WRSM prototype illustrate the effectiveness of the approach across the torque-speed operating envelope. |
| title | On the Unification of Optimal Current Reference Theory for Wound Rotor Synchronous Machines |
| topic | Systems and Control Optimization and Control |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.17165 |