Realization of fault tolerant capability in a multiphase SRM drive using wavelet transform

Abstract

Switched Reluctance Motor (SRM) are widely used in drives market because of its elegant features such as simple arrangement, manufacturing cost, minimal maintenance and wide speed range. Significant investigation has been conducted to lengthen the feasibility of SRM drive technologies in various aspects such as control strategy, torque ripple minimization, an optimal winding arrangement, etc. Even though it has numerous virtues, there are few noticeable issues that occur in SRM. In this paper, the issues like phase open circuit fault, phase-phase short circuit fault, power switch failure, dc link capacitor failure, and encoder faults are discussed using Wavelet Transform (WT) with their experimental results. A multi-phase (10/8 pole) SRM motor is considered to investigate the fault tolerance proficiency and other performance parameters. Initially, a healthy condition of multi-phase SRM is simulated then faults are injected at different phases which are analyzed and validated using MATLAB simulink tool and the same is validated through experimental results. The performance parameters of SRM drive during various faults conditions are analyzed and the impacts of speed and torque are illustrated.