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Reduction of Losses and Comparision of Sensor and Sensor less
Control of Four-Switch Inverter Fed Permanent Magnet
Brushless DC Motor for Low Cost Commercial Applications
Pvsl Pavana Kumari*, P.Sri Hari**
*(Department of Electrical and Electronics PBR VITS Kavali, JNTUAnanthapur)
** (Department of Electrical and Electronics PBR VITS Kavali, JNTUAnanthapur)
ABSTRACT
The main purpose of this paper is to develop low costfour-switch brushless dc (BLDC) motor drives for
practical industrial applications. Permanent Magnet Brushless DC (PMBLDC)machines are more popular due to
its simple structure and low cost. Improvements in permanent magnetic materials and power electronic devices
have resulted in reliable, cost effective PMBLDC drives, for many applications. PMBL motors find applications
in diverse fields such as domestic appliances and automobiles due to its low cost and performance. Modelling,
simulation and experimentation of drives with new converter configuration and control schemes are essential
for making this drive competitive. In this paper, a comparative study between sensor and sensor less control of
four-switch Inverter fed PMBLDC is discussed and Simulation model using transfer function of BLDC motor is
presented.
Keywords - PMBLDC Motor, Simulation models, sensor less, Fuzzy logic controller.
I. INTRODUCTION
Because of the distinct advantages of high
efficiency, high power density and minimal
maintenance, the Permanent Magnet (PM) Brushless
DC machine is becoming increasingly attractive for
industrial and electric vehicle (EV) applications. A
brushless DC motor (BLDC) is a synchronous
electric motor which is powered by direct current
electricity (DC) and has an electronically controlled
commutation system; instead of a mechanical
commutation system with brushes. It has all the good
advantage of DC drives and eliminating the
drawbacks using electronic commutation. So in this
motor current and torque, voltage and rpm are related
linearly. Normally from the Hall Effect sensor, the
signal for commutation is generated. But using these
sensors the size of the BLDC motor will become
larger and when space will be a main constraint,
BLDC motor fails to meet the same. BLDC Motors
are extensively used in domestic and automobile
industries. The market is too competitive so cost
reduction and higher performance will be the prime
importance. Cost reduction in BLDC motor drives
can be achieved by two methods one topological
approach and second control approach. In the
topological approach, the number of switches,
sensors and associated circuitry used to compose the
power converter is minimized. Normally for the
BLDC Motor drive six switches inverter topology is
used. By reducing the no of switches the cost
reduction can be achieved. Moreover switching and
conduction losses can be reduced. So here Four
Switch VSI (FSVSI) topology is attempted. By using
the Sensor less control the cost of the For extensive
system testing and evaluation program, detailed
computer modelling and simulation is being
developed. Modelling of the PMBLDC machine and
the controller are essential for evaluating their
performance. Each of the simulators allows setting of
the input parameters of the drive as well as the setup
of certain load torque and speed profiles in order to
evaluate the drives. In this paper the modelling of
BLDCM is explained with transfer function model.
The simulation of sensor and sensor less control of
drive is done in Matlab/Simulink. Control with
sensor, the controller is used Fuzzy logic Controller
and in sensor less control the method is used terminal
voltage sensing.
II. TRANSFER FUNCTION MODEL
The dynamics of the machine are described
by a set of differential equations [1]. The electrical
and mechanical equations can be obtained from the
equivalent circuit shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Equivalent circuit of BLDCM
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To attain the electrical equations for a
BLDC machine, basic circuit analysis was used to
find the per-phase voltage as shown below. The
equation is only shown for phase-A to neutral since
the equations for phase B and C only differ in
the subscript notation.
From the equivalent circuit Figure 1., the circuit
equation of the motor in phase variable form are
given in equation (1) where Van the applied phase
voltages, ea is the induced back emf, ia is the phase
currents. La, is the self inductances of the phases and
Ra is the resistance of each phase. The mechanical
equation that relates the machine's angular velocity to
the developed electromagnetic torque, load torque,
and motor parameters is given in equation (2),
where Tem(t) is developed electro-magnetic torque,
TL is load torque, B is viscous friction constant, J is
rotor moment of inertia, _ is the angular speed of the
motor. But we know that Electromagnetic torque and
back emf are given by equations (3) and (4),
where Kt is torque constant and Ke motor constant.
Taking Laplace transformation of the respective
quationsand rearranging the terms equations (5) and
(6) are obtained.
From the above equations it is possible to draw the
model of the BLDC motor as shown in Figure 2.
From the Figure 2transfer function of the system is
presented in equation (7).
Figure 2. Transfer function model of PMBLDC
III. FOUR SWITCH CONVERTER
TOPOLOGY
The cost reduction of controllers for
PMBLM drives can be considered with the
topologies with more than one switch per phase, but
less than conventional two switches per phase .But
according to the working of BLDCM, at a time only
two phases are conducing and the third phase is
inactive [2-5].A BLDC motor needs quasi-square
current waveforms, which are synchronized with the
back-EMF to generate constant output torque and
have 120 degree conduction and 60 degree non-
conducting regions. However, in the four-switch
converter, the generation of 120 degree conducting
current profiles is inherently difficult Though cost
saving is achieved, it introduces distortions in the
uncontrolled phase. This problem is solved by using
hysteresis current control. In this method pwm pulses
produced by the switching ON and OFF the switch
when the phase current crosses the Hysteresis Band.
The simulation model is as shown in Figure 3 and
output waveform is shown in the Figure 4.
Figure 3 Four Switch converter using Direct Control
method

Figure 4 Phase current waveform of Four switch
converter
IV. SENSOR LESS CONTROL
A low cost BLDC motor drive with reduced
parts that is by reducing the number of switches from
six to four is to be developed. The implementation of
a low cost, reduced parts BLDC motor is desired with
high system reliability. Most of the sensors less
methods for a six-switch inverter BLDC motor drive
are not directly applicable to the four-switch inverter
[6-10]. The main reason is that in the four-switch
topology, some methods detect less than six points,
and other commutation instants must be interpolated
via software. This paper presents a novel sensor less
method for four-switch BLDC motor drive based on
zero crossing points of stator line voltages.
Figure 5 Position Sensing Using Line Voltages
In four switch converter topology the third
phase is connected in between midpoint of two
capacitors. Assume that point to be ‘O’ and is
connected to the ground. With point O as reference,
the three line voltage waveforms, Vao ,Vbo and -Vbo
. Therefore, by detecting the zero crossing points of
three line voltages, six commutation points are
obtained. From this commutation points the virtual
hall effect signals are produced. Three line voltages
are derived from terminal voltages Vao and Vbo.
They have higher magnitude compared to back EMF
voltages that is times phase voltages plus drop
voltage on the stator impedance.
written as equation (8) to (10).
From figure 5 the terminal voltage equation
can be written as equation (8) to (10).
Because the drive employs the Direct Current Control
(DPC) method, in order to make the current as quasi
square waveform in accordance with the trapezoidal
back emf, motor adopts 120 degree conducting mode
and only two phases are energized at one time. So,
the current in the two phases has the same amplitude
and opposite direction, while in the third phase, the
current is zero. The phasor representation of Four
switching topology is shown in Figure 6.
Figure 6 Line to line voltage representation
A complete simulation of the system is done
in Simulink of the MATLAB environment. The
system consists of a BLDC motor with the dc link
voltage and inverter. The performance of the machine
is studied in open loop. A constant speed operation of
the drive is simulated in closed loop. Control is
achieved via terminal voltage sensing. The three
voltage functions are used to get the commutation
points. A voltage divider circuit is used first,
followed by low pass filter (second order
Butterworth) and then a zero crossing detection
circuit to get the virtual hall signals. A d- q model of
the BLDC motor done is considered in a rotor
reference frame and an analytical simulation using a
m-file is carried out to study the torque-speed
characteristics of the motor under steady state. The
simulation diagram is shown in Figure 7 and results
are given in Figure 8

Figure 7 Simulink diagram for sensor less control
Figure 8 Stator current for Phase C
In analytical simulation method the torque speed
characteristics using M-file.The steady-state torque is
given by equation 11.
For steady-state operation, v is constant
and represents the angular displacement between the
peak value of the fundamental component of Vas and
the q-axis fixed in the rotor. The values of and
ds are determined by the firing of the driving
inverter. But for most applications, the
common operating mode is used where the conditions
are v = 0, whereupon and Also
assuming Ld = Lq , the expression for torque is given
in the equation (12).
The graph is not entirely linear but approximately
linear only in the region where Te≥0 and r0. It is
not linear for the entire speed range. The simulation
result analytical simulation is shown in the Figure 9.
Figure 9 Torque Speed characteristics obtained by
Analytical method
V. FUZZY LOGIC CONTROLLER
Fuzzy logic controller is used for simulation
of BLDC Motor with sensor. Three hall effect
sensors are connected the other end of the motor and
they are separated by 120 degree mechanically. A
Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC)[11-12] uses fuzzy
logic as a design methodology, which can be utilized
for developing linear and non-linear systems for
embedded control. FLC techniques need less
development time, have better performance and are
good replacements for conventional control
techniques, which require highly complicated
mathematical models. A fuzzy logic controller does
not require an exact mathematical model. It however
requires knowledge-based set of heuristic rules.
These rules are impressive and are expressed in terms
of linguistic variables. The steps involved in the
design of fuzzy controller are fuzzification, rule
definition and defuzzification. For the fuzzy
controller necessary data required for the simulation
is given in Table 1. The two inputs given are error
and change in error. The output is the reference
current for the Hysteresis controller. All three
membership functions are Triangular. The input and
output membership functions are shown in Figures 10
to 12. The fuzzification rule is entered using the rule
editor of the fuzzy toolbox as shown in Figure 13.
The simulation diagram is shown in Figure 14. The
overall simulation diagram with controller, four-

switch inverter and BLDC motor model is shown in
Figure 15.
TABLE 1: PARAMETERS FOR THE
SIMULATION OF FUZZY CONTROLLER
Name ‘FuzzyBldc.fis’
Type ‘mamdani’
and method ‘min’
or method ‘max’
defuzzMethod ‘centriod’
impMethod ‘min’
aggMethod ‘max’
input [1x2 struct]
outpule [1x1 struct]
rule [1x49 struct]
Fig10: Membership Function of Error
Figure 11 Membership Function of Change Error
Figure 12 Membership Function of Reference
Current
Figure 13 Rule Editor
Figure 14 Fuzzy controller with hysteresis controller
Figure 15 Controller, four-switch inverter and Motor
model
The measured motor speed from the BLDC
drive is compared with the reference speed producing
the error which is given to the controller in the
model. By decoding output of the hall sensor signals,
gate pulses for the three phase inverter are generated.
The current output from the fuzzy output is fed to
hysteresis controller(current limit control) [13] is
used for making the phase currents smoother.
Simulation duration is given as 0.6 sec and solver is
fixed step,ode4 (Runge-gutta). The simulations are
performed for fuzzy controller and the results are
given in fig11-17.
Figure 16 Phase Current Using Fuzzy controller
Figure 17 Speed profile of the drive for Fuzzy
controller

Figure 18 Torque profile of the drive for Fuzzy
controller
VI. CONCLUSION
In this paper, the transfer function model is
explained. The simulation is performed in MATLAB
/SIMLINK motor model fed by four-switch inverter
with hysteresis current control first with sensor less
and then Fuzzy controller with the hall effect sensors.
The current waveforms are rectangular without any
distortion due to the hysteresis control. From the
phase voltages the virtual Hall Effect signals are
produced and thus applicable in four switch inverter
topology. The sensorless method via terminal voltage
sensing will overcome the disadvantages of back emf
method. But the sensorless control method is not
suitable for higher speed changes. The fuzzy
controller i.e sensor control responds faster and
smoother to reference speed changes. But if low cost
is the primary concern and motor speed is not an
issue, then sensorless control will be the better
choice. The hardware implementation is simplified
with the use of DSP processor with built-in features
and easy C programming interface of Code
Composer studio. The hysteresis current control is
yet to be implemented in hardware.
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