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I.
INTRODUCTION
This paper was made possible by NPRP grant # 4-152-02-053 from the
Qatar National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation). The
statements made herein are solely the responsibility of the authors.
The authors are with the Electric Machines and Drives Research group,
Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, L3 3AF
(e-mail:
n.bodo@2009.ljmu.ac.uk, e.levi@ljmu.ac.uk, m.jones2@ljmu.ac.uk).
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II.
v
ph 2
1 4 1 1 1 vla 2 vlb 2
v ph3 = (1 / 5) 1 1 4 1 1 vla3 vlb3 (2)
v ph 4
1 1 1 4 1 vla 4 vlb 4
v
1 1 1 1 4 vla5 vlb5
ph5
Space vectors of phase voltages in the two planes are determined with:
Fig. 2. Two-level five-phase VSI space vectors in the - and x-y planes.
(
= (2 5)(v
ph1
)
(3)
)
+ a 2v ph 2 + a 4v ph3 + a 6v ph 4 + a 8v ph5
(4)
since v NaNb (1 + a + a 2 + a 3 + a 4 ) = 0 .
In (4) the two space vectors on the right-hand sides of
the two equations are corresponding voltage space vectors
of the two five-phase two-level VSIs, already discussed in
the previous section. Their combinations give 211 voltage
space vectors, produced by 1024 possible switching states.
These are illustrated in Fig. 3. A consequence of the much
greater number of switching states and voltage space vectors is an increased number of phase voltage levels.
IV. PRINCIPLE OF THE DECOUPLING MODULATION
METHOD
Another consequence of the large number of switching
states and space vectors is that the development of a suitable SVM strategy is challenging. To reduce the complexity, the three-level space vector decagon is decomposed into
a number of two-level decagons, as illustrated in Fig. 3.
The centre decagon provides possibility of operating
only one inverter in two-level mode with the other one
clamped to zero state. The operation in the other decagons
is achieved by applying the nearest large vector from one
inverter (denoted with large dots in Fig. 3), while the rest of
the reference is achieved by operating the second inverter in
PWM mode.
Let the applied vector by one inverter be vi (either zero
vector or large vector) and let the reference be v * . The reference for the other inverter v ** is then set as:
(5)
v ** = (v * vi )
When the magnitude of the reference voltage exceeds
the maximum value obtainable in two-level mode, one inverter is operated in ten-step mode while the second inverter is modulated in the standard way, its reference being
the remaining part between the total reference and the voltage provided by the ten-step inverter according to (5).
The ten-step mode operation leads to a leg voltage waveform with constant harmonics and fundamental, which can
be expressed as a Fourier series as follows:
2
1
1
1
vleg = Vdca[sin t + sin 3t + sin 5t + sin 7t...] (6)
3
5
7
In a five-phase system, harmonics of the order 10k1 (k
= 0, 1, 2, 3...) map into the torque/flux producing subspace,
-, while harmonics of the order 10k3 map into the x-y
subspace. It is mandatory for the inverter working in PWM
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