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In some applications, it is interesting to know the position of a BLDC Motor at standstill. This paper propose one solution using the saturation property of the motor. Principle, simulation and measures are presented. The results of industrial applications ...
High speed rotation of small rotors is needed more and more in many industrial applications. Classical examples are compact devices like scanners, gyroscopes, centrifuge units and so on. The key to achieve high rotating speeds is to have contactless bearin ...
In many applications, industry has tried to develop sinusoidal supply for brushless DC (BLDC) motors. This paper describes a method that still keeps a simple 2 phases-on sensorless method and achieves sinusoidal supply, which is needed to avoid speed oscil ...
NOVELTY - After disconnection from normal control (3) a pulse generator (4) sends positive and negative pulses to a motor winding R. The response currents are measured (5) from voltages (Vpr,Vnr) which appear after a fixed time on a neutral resistor (2) an ...
The present paper deals with the determination of voltage stresses on PWM inverter fed induction motors by considering first the cable modeling and the measurement of different parameters. Then, based on this model, voltage stresses on the motor windings a ...
Extended Kalman filtering techniques have been successfully used as sensorless control schemes on many different types of synchronous motors. One big disadvantage of the extended Kalman filtering technique is the large computational cost. Even with today's ...
In this article a high performance Extended Kalman filter algorithm is used to estimate rotor speed, rotor position and load torque in a Hybrid Stepper Motor (HSM). Together with a PI speed controller, the Kalman filter forms a very robust sensorless close ...
We will present a method allowing to evaluate the mechanical performances (torque, speed, mechanical power, dissipated losses in the surface of contact between stator and rotor) of the travelling wave ultrasonic motors. The visualization of the motor chara ...
Designing actuators or motors requires analysis of a lot of parameters such as length, temperature, efficiency, and weight. A global analysis to evaluate these parameters is possible. Three methods can be used: 1) an analytical method, allowing parametric ...
Developing a research autonomous plane for flying in a laboratory space is a challenge that forces one to understand the specific aerodynamic, power and construction constraints. In order to obtain a very slow flight while maintaining a high maneuverabilit ...
