An Online Global Fault-Tolerant Control Strategy for Symmetrical Multiphase Machines With Minimum Losses in Full Torque Production Range

Abstract

The high fault-tolerant ability of multiphase drives is favored in safety-critical applications. Under open-phase faults, to guarantee ripple-free torque, stator current references should be revised. In this paper, a global fault-tolerant control strategy based on an online current optimization algorithm (OCOA) is proposed for symmetrical multiphase machines (SMMs) to achieve both the maximal torque production range (TPR) and minimal stator winding losses under all possible OPFs. The OCOA can calculate the minimum losses current references covering the full TPR online, regardless of the number and locations of faulty phases. With the online-optimized references, ripple-free torque and minimum losses in full TPR can be achieved under faulty conditions. Additionally, the proposed method can be adopted to SMMs with arbitrary phase numbers. Simulation and experiments demonstrate that the online optimization can be completed in a short time, meanwhile, achieves the same TPR and loss reduction compared with an existing offline strategy based on prestored look-up tables. Due to the flexible online calculation ability and excellent extensibility, the proposed method is especially favored in modular multiphase converters and machines with high phase numbers, where converters can adapt to machines with different phase numbers or the number of possible faulty conditions can be extremely large.