Grey Wolf based control for speed ripple reduction at low speed operation of PMSM drives

Ali Djerioui; Azeddine Houari; Mourad Ait-Ahmed; Mohamed-Fouad Benkhoris; Aissa Chouder; Mohamed Machmoum

doi:10.1016/j.isatra.2018.01.012

Grey Wolf based control for speed ripple reduction at low speed operation of PMSM drives

ISA Trans. 2018 Mar:74:111-119. doi: 10.1016/j.isatra.2018.01.012. Epub 2018 Jan 12.

Authors

Ali Djerioui¹, Azeddine Houari², Mourad Ait-Ahmed², Mohamed-Fouad Benkhoris², Aissa Chouder³, Mohamed Machmoum²

Affiliations

¹ LGE Laboratory, University of Msila, Algeria; IREENA Laboratory, University of Nantes, Saint-Nazaire, France. Electronic address: Alidjerioui@yahoo.fr.
² IREENA Laboratory, University of Nantes, Saint-Nazaire, France.
³ LGE Laboratory, University of Msila, Algeria.

PMID: 29336788
DOI: 10.1016/j.isatra.2018.01.012

Abstract

Speed ripple at low speed-high torque operation of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine (PMSM) drives is considered as one of the major issues to be treated. The presented work proposes an efficient PMSM speed controller based on Grey Wolf (GW) algorithm to ensure a high-performance control for speed ripple reduction at low speed operation. The main idea of the proposed control algorithm is to propose a specific objective function in order to incorporate the advantage of fast optimization process of the GW optimizer. The role of GW optimizer is to find the optimal input controls that satisfy the speed tracking requirements. The synthesis methodology of the proposed control algorithm is detailed and the feasibility and performances of the proposed speed controller is confirmed by simulation and experimental results. The GW algorithm is a model-free controller and the parameters of its objective function are easy to be tuned. The GW controller is compared to PI one on real test bench. Then, the superiority of the first algorithm is highlighted.

Keywords: Grey Wolf algorithm; Low speed operation; Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine (PMSM); Speed control.