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Volume 8, Issue 7 (September 2013), PP. 32-41
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Speed Control of Induction Motor Using Dspic30f2023
M.S. Aspalli.1
, Laxmi.2
Dept of Electrical & Electronics Engg, P.D.A. College of Engineering Gulbarga, Karnataka, India.1,2
Abstract:- This paper presents design and analysis of a three phase induction motor drive using IGBT‟s at
the inverter power stage with variable frequency method in closed loop using dsPIC30F2023 as a
controller. It is a 16 bit high-performance digital signal controller (DSC). DSC is a single chip embedded
controller that integrates the controller attributes of a microcontroller with the computation and throughput
capabilities of a DSP in a single core. A 1.5HP, 3-phase, 415V, 50Hz induction motor is used as load for
the inverter. Digital Storage Oscilloscope Textronix TDS2024B is used to record and analyze the various
waveforms. The experimental results for variable frequency control of 3-Phase induction motor using
dsPIC30F2023 chip clearly shows by varying the frequency of voltage applied to the stator the speed of the
motor can be controlled.
Keywords:- Induction motor, Variable frequency drive, dsPIC, Voltage source inverter, starter, Current
source inverter.
I. INTRODUCTION
The electrical machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy, and vice versa, is
the workhorse in a drive system. Drive systems are widely used in applications such as pumps, fans, paper
and textile mills, home appliances, wind generation systems and robotics. Industrial drive applications are
generally classified into constant speed and variable speed drives. Traditionally, ac machines with a
constant frequency sinusoidal power supply have been used in constant speed applications, where as dc
machines were preferred for variable speed drives. DC machines have the disadvantage of higher cost,
higher rotor inertia, and maintenance problems with commutators and brushes. Commutators and brushes,
in addition, limit the machine speed and peak current, cause EMI problems. AC machine do not have the
disadvantages of dc machine, as mentioned above. In the last two or three decades, we have seen extensive
research and development effort for variable frequency, variable speed ac machine drive technology.
There are different types of ac machines are available. They are classified as follows.
 Induction machines
 Synchronous machines
 Variable reluctance machines
Among all types of ac machines, the induction machine, particularly the cage type, is most
commonly used in industry. These machines are very economical, rugged and reliable higher efficiency and
are available in the ranges of fractional horse power to multi-mega watt capacity. Induction motor is a type
of ac machine has been used in the past mainly in applications requiring a constant speed. Availability of
thyristors, power transistors, IGBT and GTO has allowed the development of variable speed induction
motor drives.
In this work IGBTs are used as switching devices, dsPIC as a controller, square wave modulation
technique is used for controlling switching devices. Controller used is dsPIC30F2023. It is a 44 pin IC. As
compared to the PIC Microcontroller and DSP, dsPIC is cheaper and most reliable. The dsPIC DSC has the
“heart” of a 16-bit MCU with robust peripherals and fast interrupt handling capability and the “brain” of a
DSP that manages high computation activities, creating the optimum single chip solution for embedded
system designs. This work describes the speed of the motor is controlled by varying the frequency of the
voltage applied to stator of the motor. There are three major units in this work, are as follows:
 Rectifier: A full wave three phase bridge rectifier converts three phase 50 Hz power supply to
either fixed or adjustable dc voltage.
 Inverter: Electronic switches (IGBTs) switch the rectified dc on and off, and produce a current
or voltage waveform at the desired new frequency.
 Control Unit: An electronic circuit receives the feedback information from the driven motor and
adjust the output voltage or frequency to the selected valves.Controllers produces gate pulses for switching
of the devices and also controllers may incorporate many complex control functions.
According to the requirement, a software program is written and is fed to the digital signal
controller (dsPIC30F2023) for the necessary action.

II. VARIABLE FREQUENCY CONTROL OF THREE
PHASE INDUCTION MOTOR
Figure 3.10 shows the torque-speed curve, if the stator supply frequency is increased with constant
supply
voltage, where ω is the base angular speed. Note, however, that beyond the rated frequency ω , there is fall
ineb maximum torque developed, while the speed rises. Synchronous speed and rated speed are two speed
terms used in the electric machine. Synchronous speed is the speed at which a motor’s magnetic field
rotates. Synchronous speed is the motor’s theoretical speed if there was no load on the shaft and friction in
the bearings. The two factors affecting synchronous speed are the frequency of the electrical supply and the
number of magnetic poles in the stator. The synchronous speed is given by;
f N
s = 120
P
Where;
f = Electrical frequency of the power supply in Hz P = Number of Poles
The rotor speed of an Induction machine is different from the speed of Rotating magnetic field.
The percent difference of the speed is called slip as shown in equation
s =
Ns Nr
N
s
N s = Synchronous speed Nr = Rotor speed
The induction motor speed is directly proportional to the supply frequency and the number of
poles of the motor .Since the number of poles is fixed by design, the best way to vary the speed of the
induction motor is by varying the supply frequency. Voltage induced in stator is proportional to the product
of supply frequency fs and air-gap flux φm as shown in equation
E = 4.44N m fs
Where,
N= number of turns per phase
f stator drop is neglected, then E is equal to V as shown in equation (4). Then the supply voltage will
become proportional to fs and φm
V=4.44m fs
Figure 1 Speed torque curve at variable stator frequency
III. IMPLEMENTATION OF VARIABLE FREQUENCY DRIVE
A. System Overview
The basic block schematic of three-phase induction motor drive is shown in Fig.2. It has starter,
three-phase full bridge rectifier, three-phase full bridge inverter, control circuit, speed sensing unit. The
starting current of the induction motor will be five to six times that of the rated current. To limit this heavy
current flow, starter unit is required. In this starter, two 56Ω wire wound resistors are connected in parallel
in each phase of the input supply.

In the proposed work the three-phase bridge rectifier is designed using IN5408 power diodes.
Three power diodes are connected in parallel to increase the current capability. The output of rectifier is
filtered by 300μF, 900V capacitors. The three-phase inverter has FGA25N120ANTD IGBT switches; the
output of the switches is given to the three phase induction motor.
B. Power circuit design
The power circuit is designed using 25A, 1200V IGBT. The 3-phase induction motor is connected
to 3-phase bridge inverter as shown in Fig.3. If the upper and lower switches of the same leg are switched
on at the same time then this will cause DC bus supply to short. To prevent the DC bus supply from being
shorted, certain dead time must be given between switching off the upper switch and switching on the lower
switch and vice versa. Freewheeling diodes are connected to provide a path for flow of current which is
stored due to the inductive load when switches are OFF.
Figure 2. Block diagram of Complete System Figure 3. Three Phase Bridge Inverter
C. Control Circuit
In this work Microchip‟s dsPIC30F2010 digital signal controller is used. Microchip‟s
dsPIC30F2010 digital signal controllers place unprecedented performance in the hands of 16-bit MCU
designers. The dsPIC DSC has the “heart” of a 16- bit MCU with robust peripherals and fast interrupt
handling capability and the “brain” of a DSP that manages high computation activities, creating the
optimum single-chip solution for embedded control of three-phase induction motor [9]. It also consists of
six opto coupler for isolating the control and power circuits. In this work an optocoupler TLP250 is used to
isolate the gate drive circuit and the IGBT-based power circuit. Six IGBTs of the power circuit are
controlled by square wave switching technique. These square wave signals are required to derive a varying
AC voltage from the power circuit. A dead time of 2 micro second is given between switching off the upper
switch and switching on the lower switch and vice versa, to avoid shorting the DC bus.
IV. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS AND ANALYSIS OF
SPEED CONTROL
The proposed control system was developed by a DSC (dsPIC30F2023) based voltage source
inverter. C language is used to develop the program. The device is programmed using MPLAB Integrated
Development Environment (IDE) tool. It is a free, integrated tool set for the development of embedded
applications employing Microchips PIC and dsPIC controllers. For execution of C code, MPLAB compiler
is used. In this work, 415V, 50Hz, 3-ph, 1.5HP induction motor is used.
The Variable Frequency drive for three phase induction motor is successfully developed and tested
in our power electronics laboratory and the photographs of the complete project setup is as shown in figure
20. Closed loop is carried out for different speeds and loads. Storage oscilloscope is used to store gate
pulses and voltage waveforms. Speed of the induction motor is varied from 1500 RPM to 1290 RPM and
corresponding frequency range is from 50Hz to 44Hz. At a particular set RPM, load is varied from zero to 4
kg and corresponding frequencies are noted.
The developed Variable Frequency Drive is tested for a 3 Phase, 415 Volts, 1.5 H.P. (ABB)
Induction Motor for different frequencies and load reading of Stator Voltage, Stator Current and Frequency
are noted.

Table 1. Experimental Result for Variable Load At Speed 1500 Rpm
SI. NO LOAD ACTUAL RPM Frequency (hz)
1 0.5Kg 1502 50.06
2 1 1502 50.06
3 1.5 1505 50.16
4 2 1510 50.33
5 2.5 1510 50.33
6 3 1512 50.4
7 3.5 1512 50.43
8 4 1513 50.4
Figure 4. Characteristics of Actual RPM Vs. Load for the set speed 1500 rpm
Figure.5 Characteristics of Frequency Vs. Load for the set speed 1500 rpm
Table 2. Experimental Result For Variable Load At Speed 1410 Rpm
SI. NO LOAD ACTUAL RPM Frequency (hz)
1 0.5Kg 1405 46.83
2 1 1405 46.83
3 1.5 1407 46.9
4 2 1407 46.9

5 2.5 1407 46.9
6 3 1409 46.96
7 3.5 1411 47.03
8 4 1411 47.03
Figure 6. Characteristics of Actual Speed Vs. Load for the set speed 1410 rpm
Figure 7. Characteristics of Frequency Vs. Load for the set speed 1410 rpm
Table 3. Characteristics of Frequency Vs. Load for the set speed 1320 rpm
SI. NO LOAD Actual RPM Frequency (hz)
1 0.5Kg 1315 44
2 1 1315 44.24
3 1.5 1318 44.24
4 2 1318 44.30
5 2.5 1321 44.35
6 3 1321 44.80
7 3.5 1322 44.96
8 4 1322 45.05

Figure 8. Characteristics of Actual RPM Vs. Load for the set speed 1320 rpm
Figure 9. Characteristics of Frequency Vs. Load for the set speed 1320 rpm
THREE PHASE
Table 4. Tabulated Result At Different Rpm (200v)
SET RPM ACTUAL
CURRENT
(Amp) FREQUENCY Voltage
RPM (volts)
1560 1545 1.71 51.5 199
1530 1529 1.77 50.96 199
1500 1510 1.80 50 200
1470 1450 2.10 48.32 200
1440 1430 2.25 47.66 201
1410 1400 2.40 46.66 201
1380 1375 2.55 45.82 202
1350 1340 2.85 44.66 201
1320 1320 3.00 44 201
1300 1310 3.15 43.66 201
Figure 10. Characteristics of Speed Vs. Current

Table 5. Tabulated Result For Different Loads At 1560rpm(I/P Voltage 200v)
LOAD ACTUAL RPM
FREQUENCY
(Hz)
VOLTAGE CURRENT
(Amp)
(VOLTS)
0.5 1540 51.33 250 0.99
1 1520 50.66 245 1.01
1.5 1400 46.66 245 1.02
2 1390 46.33 245 1.22
2.5 1380 46 244 1.30
3 1375 45.83 244 1.34
3.5 1370 45.66 244 1.38
4 1360 45.33 243 1.42
Figure 11. Characteristics of Load Vs. Frequency for the set speed 1560 rpm
Figure 12. Characteristics of Speed Vs. Current for the set speed 1560 rpm
As it can be seen from tables for set rpm; 1500, 1410 & 1320, the rpm of motor remain in the range
of set rpm with the error of +/- 10rpm. Hence the accuracy of approximately 98% is achieved.
Table1 shows the rpm and frequency recording at set speed of 1500 rpm and different loads. Their
corresponding graphs are drawn as rpm versus load and frequency verses load and they are as shown in Fig4 and
5. The actual rpm verses load graphs is almost linear, thus shows that the closed loop control is good one. The
frequency verses load graph is non-linear for set speed. This shows that to compensate for increase in load the
frequency is increased by the controller to retain the set speed as 1500 rpm. The same explanation goes for set
speeds as 1560 rpm, 1410 rpm, 1320 rpm.
The average frequency of the output voltage is;
 50.33 for 1500 rpm
 46.9for 1410 rpm
 44.35 for 1320 rpm

The frequency is proportionally decreasing with decrease of rpm, thus follow the
formula
(Ns 
120 f
) .
P
The waveforms of the gate pulses for the various rpm’s and gate pulses of six IGBT’s are as shown in
fig. 13, 14, 15,16,17,18,19,20 and 21, there waveforms are directly acquired from the storage oscilloscope.
INVERTER OUTPUT VOLTAGE WAVEFORMS
Figure 13. Waveforms of Gate Pulse of IGBT Q1 and Q2
WAVEFORMS FOR DIFFERENT RPM
Figure 16. Waveforms for 1560 RPM Figure 17. Waveforms for 1470 RPM

Figure 18. Waveforms for 1440 RPM Figure 19.Waveforms for 1410 RPM
Figure. 20: Photograph of complete designed system
IV. APPLICATIONS
 A 3 phase induction motor has a simple design, inherently high starting torque, and high efficiency.
Such motors are applied in industry for 3 phase pumps, fans, blowers, compressors, conveyor drives, and many
other types of 3 phase motor-driven equipment.
Typical applications of pumps
 Chilled and hot water pumps
 Condenser water pumps
 Booster pumps Typical application of fans
 Supply and return fans
 Exhaust fans
 Boiler combustion fans
 Fume hood fans
 Large air conditioning equipment use 3 phase motors for reasons of economy and efficiency.
V. CONCLUSION
In the proposed system a new generation dsPIC approach for variable frequency control method of
induction motor is applied and this complete system is developed and tested in power electronics laboratory.
Speed control of motor is acquired with the accuracy of ±15 rpm. By varying the frequency of voltage applied to
the stator the speed of the motor can be controlled. By meeting the required process demand, the system
efficiency is improved. Hence we go for variable frequency drives.
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