Study of Induction motor drive with Direct Torque Control scheme and Indirect Field Oriented control scheme with Space Vector Modulation

Induction motors are the starting point to design an electrical drive system which is widely used in many industrial applications. In modern control theory, different mathematical models describe induction motor according to the employed control methods. Vector control strategy can be applied to this electrical motor type in symmetrical three phase version or in unsymmetrical two phase version. The operation of the induction motor can be analyzed similar to a DC motor through this control method. With the Joint progress of the power electronics and numerical electronics it is possible today to deal with the axis control with variable speed in low power applications. With these technological projections, various command approaches have been developed by the scientific community to master in real time, the flux and the torque of the electrical machines, the direct torque control (DTC) scheme being one of the most recent steps in this direction. This scheme provides excellent properties of regulation without rotational speed feedback. In this control scheme the electromagnetic torque and stator flux magnitude are estimated with only stator voltages and currents and this estimation does not depend on motor parameters except for the stator resistance. In this dissertation report conventional DTC scheme has been described. Induction motor has been simulated in stationary d-q reference frame and its free acceleration characteristics are drawn. Conventional DTC scheme has been simulated with a 50 HP, 460V, 60Hz induction motor. Literature review has been done to study the recent improvements in DTC scheme which somehow is able to overcome the drawbacks of conventional one. The space vector modulation technique (SVPWM) is applied to 2 level inverter control in the vector control based induction motor drive system, thereby dramatically reducing the torque ripple. Later in this project space vector PWM technique will be applied to DTC drive system to reduce the torque ripple. I