An enhanced proportional resonance controller design for the PMSM based electric vehicle drive system

Permanent magnet synchronous machine (PMSM) has proven to be a more economical traction drive system for electric vehicle (EV) applications owing to increased efficiency and high-power density. However, the drive system requires more efficient control schemes to deliver better dynamic performance irrespective of dynamic changes in the motor speed, machine parameters and disturbances. Hence, to tackle the dynamic changes, to enhance the wider operating speed, to achieve precise speed tracking capability, and improved efficiency, a novel control algorithm for the PMSM based EV is proposed in this paper. The control algorithm is implemented by adopting the merits of conventional proportional resonance (PR) and proportional integral (PI) controller. The proposed control strategy is designed with an outer PI speed regulator and the inner enhanced PR (EPR) current regulator. The uniqueness of the proposed EPR controller is that the controller is designed to damp the torsional mode oscillation owing to dynamic changes such as speed and torque regulation evading the additional control loop. The effectiveness of the control scheme is tested in MATLAB Simulink and hardware-in-loop (HIL) real time simulator RT5700. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme the results are compared with the conventional control schemes. The results presented show that the proposed control technique successfully enhances the static and dynamic performance, and resilience of the EV system. Also, the proposed scheme significantly reduces the flux ripples, torque ripples, current jitter, peak overshoot, undershoot compared to the conventional current controllers.