Finite-time stability control with hardware-in-the-loop testing of a chaotic permanent magnet synchronous motor

Abstract

Stability of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) is of prime importance for the successful operation of the drive system, which is found to be dependent on initial operating conditions showing chaotic characteristic. Therefore, the paper presents the stabilization of a chaotic PMSM system through the finite-time stability approach. From this aspect, three controllers have been developed which are effective for the suppression of machine chaotic behaviour. Proposed controllers are simpler and numerically stable in comparison with previous works. Furthermore, performance comparisons of the proposed controllers are also presented in term of their settling time and peak overshoot. Selection among the proposed controllers depends on the consideration of a particular operating index (settling time or peak overshoot) wherein, performance also varies on system parameter λ. Performance evaluation of proposed controllers has been presented in MATLAB environment. In order to validate the obtained MATLAB results, a real-time analysis has been carried out using Typhoon Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) emulator. The comparison shows that both results follow the same trend and are closely coordinated with each other, which validates the proposed controllers.