Predictive Current Control of a Five-Phase Drive Using a Lead-Pursuit Strategy and Virtual Voltage Vectors

Modern electric machines are attracting the greatest interest from the research community due to their current increasing number of applications, including electric vehicles and wind power generators. Their use requires the development of complex regulators, where predictive controllers appear as in...

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Main Authors: Federico Barrero, Mario Bermúdez, Manuel R. Arahal, Ignacio González-Prieto
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Published: MDPI AG 2025-05-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/15/10/5604
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author Federico Barrero
Mario Bermúdez
Manuel R. Arahal
Ignacio González-Prieto
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description Modern electric machines are attracting the greatest interest from the research community due to their current increasing number of applications, including electric vehicles and wind power generators. Their use requires the development of complex regulators, where predictive controllers appear as interesting and viable alternatives in recent research works. Although these controllers have an easy formulation and high flexibility to incorporate different control objectives in multidimensional systems, they have limitations that require attention and limit their application: a high computational cost and current harmonic content. This work presents a novel controller that focuses on these limitations, where the additional degree of freedom introduced in the predictive controller through the lead-pursuit guidance law concept is combined with the use of virtual voltage vectors to reduce the harmonic content in a controlled drive. The effectiveness of the proposed controller is explored using a five-phase drive and several figures of merit, such as the root mean square error in current tracking, the total harmonic distortion in the stator currents, and the number of switching commutations per cycle. Different predictive controllers are compared with the proposal in terms of speed regulation, stator current control, and steady-state performance, where the results obtained are analyzed to show the interest, improvements, and limitations of the proposal.
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spelling doaj-art-0dbd537ee83445149faa390d608c5ed62025-08-20T02:33:43ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172025-05-011510560410.3390/app15105604Predictive Current Control of a Five-Phase Drive Using a Lead-Pursuit Strategy and Virtual Voltage VectorsFederico Barrero0Mario Bermúdez1Manuel R. Arahal2Ignacio González-Prieto3Electronic Engineering Department, University of Seville, 41008 Seville, SpainElectrical Engineering Department, University of Seville, 41008 Seville, SpainDepartment of Systems Engineering and Automation, University of Seville, 41008 Seville, SpainElectrical Engineering Department, University of Malaga, 29016 Málaga, SpainModern electric machines are attracting the greatest interest from the research community due to their current increasing number of applications, including electric vehicles and wind power generators. Their use requires the development of complex regulators, where predictive controllers appear as interesting and viable alternatives in recent research works. Although these controllers have an easy formulation and high flexibility to incorporate different control objectives in multidimensional systems, they have limitations that require attention and limit their application: a high computational cost and current harmonic content. This work presents a novel controller that focuses on these limitations, where the additional degree of freedom introduced in the predictive controller through the lead-pursuit guidance law concept is combined with the use of virtual voltage vectors to reduce the harmonic content in a controlled drive. The effectiveness of the proposed controller is explored using a five-phase drive and several figures of merit, such as the root mean square error in current tracking, the total harmonic distortion in the stator currents, and the number of switching commutations per cycle. Different predictive controllers are compared with the proposal in terms of speed regulation, stator current control, and steady-state performance, where the results obtained are analyzed to show the interest, improvements, and limitations of the proposal.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/15/10/5604electrical drivesfive-phase drivevirtual voltage vectorsstator current predictive control
spellingShingle Federico Barrero
Mario Bermúdez
Manuel R. Arahal
Ignacio González-Prieto
Predictive Current Control of a Five-Phase Drive Using a Lead-Pursuit Strategy and Virtual Voltage Vectors
Applied Sciences
electrical drives
five-phase drive
virtual voltage vectors
stator current predictive control
title Predictive Current Control of a Five-Phase Drive Using a Lead-Pursuit Strategy and Virtual Voltage Vectors
title_full Predictive Current Control of a Five-Phase Drive Using a Lead-Pursuit Strategy and Virtual Voltage Vectors
title_fullStr Predictive Current Control of a Five-Phase Drive Using a Lead-Pursuit Strategy and Virtual Voltage Vectors
title_full_unstemmed Predictive Current Control of a Five-Phase Drive Using a Lead-Pursuit Strategy and Virtual Voltage Vectors
title_short Predictive Current Control of a Five-Phase Drive Using a Lead-Pursuit Strategy and Virtual Voltage Vectors
title_sort predictive current control of a five phase drive using a lead pursuit strategy and virtual voltage vectors
topic electrical drives
five-phase drive
virtual voltage vectors
stator current predictive control
url https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/15/10/5604
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