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A Reconfigurable Load Emulator for Multiple Quadrant Motor Drives

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Smart and Sustainable Engineering for Next Generation Applications (ELECOM 2018)

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Motor drives are required to be tested under various loading conditions so as to ascertain the effectiveness of their speed control schemes and the ability of the machine to withstand sudden load changes. This paper presents the modeling and design of a reconfigurable load emulator which can apply typical load torque profiles on the shaft of the motor under test. The proposed system uses a current-controlled dc chopper driven dc machine, and does not require torque measurement. Simulation tests confirm the ability of the load emulator to produce commonly encountered torque-speed characteristics and bidirectional step load profiles for multiple quadrant operation.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius

    M. I. Jahmeerbacus

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  1. Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Peter Fleming

  2. Transnet Centre of Systems Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, Wits, South Africa

    Beatrys Margaretha Lacquet

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

    Saeid Sanei

  4. Michigan State University , East Lansing, MI, USA

    Kalyanmoy Deb

  5. Department of Mathematical Statistics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Andreas Jakobsson

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Jahmeerbacus, M.I. (2019). A Reconfigurable Load Emulator for Multiple Quadrant Motor Drives. In: Fleming, P., Lacquet, B., Sanei, S., Deb, K., Jakobsson, A. (eds) Smart and Sustainable Engineering for Next Generation Applications. ELECOM 2018. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 561. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18240-3_6

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