Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 58410, 22 pages
doi:10.1155/2007/58410
Research Article
Field-Weakening Nonlinear Control of a Separately Excited DC Motor
Department of Electrical Engineering, Kuwait University, P.O. Box 5969, Safat 13060, Kuwait
Received 17 March 2006; Accepted 30 January 2007
Academic Editor: Giuseppe Rega
Copyright © 2007 Mohamed Zribi and Adel Al-Zamel. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This paper investigates the design and implementation of nonlinear
control schemes for a separately excited DC motor operating in the field-weakening region. A feedback linearization controller, a Corless-Leitman-type controller, and two nonlinear controllers are designed and implemented for a DC motor system. The stability of the closed-loop system is proved using Lyapunov theory. A hardware testbed is constructed to experimentally verify the designed controllers. The hardware consists of a DC motor system, a DSP controller board, a power module, two current sensors, and a
tachogenerator. The experimental results indicate that the developed controllers work well.