Chennai and Dr.

MGR University Second International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Intelligent System (SEISCON 2011) ,
Dr. M.G.R. University, Maduravoyal, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. July. 20-22, 2011.

Simplied SVPWM Based Hybrid PWM for Induction

Motor drives for the Reduction of Torque Ripples
M. Harsha Vardhan Reddy and V.Jegathesan
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Karunya University,
Coimbatore- 641114, India

Keywords: conventional SVPWM, discontinuous PWM, imagi-

nary switching times, stator ux ripple, torque ripple.

Abstract
T A voltage source inverter-fed induction motor produces a pulsat-
ing torque due the application of no sinusoidal voltages. Torque
pulsation is strongly influenced by switching fashion employed.
This paper presents the simplified hybrid pulse width modulating
technique for the reduction of torque ripples in an induction mo-
tor. In conventional space vector pulse width modulating (CSVP-
WM) technique (0127-7210) the zero states are divided equally and
give rise to continuous modulating technique. The hybrid PWM is
a combination of both continuous and discontinuous PWM tech-
niques. To modulate the required voltage vector calculation of mag-
nitude and angle are required which is complex. In this paper a
simplified algorithm based on the concept of imaginary switching
times is implemented. To validate this method simulation has been
carried out in MATLAB 7.8 on v/f control of induction motor
Fig.1 voltage vectors of voltage source inverter
1 Introduction For reference Vref vector as shown in[1-12] Fig.1 the active vec-
tors V1 and V2 are applied for duration of T1 and T2. The zero
Space vector pulse width modulation technique has been widely vectors V0 and V7 are applied for duration of Tz are given by the
investigated for decades. Space Vector Modulation (SVM) Tech- equation as in equation (1).
nique[1-12] was originally developed as a vector approach to Pulse
Width Modulation (PWM) for three-phase inverters. It is a more vref sin  3 / 3  D
sophisticated technique for generating sine wave that provides a T1 Ts
sin  3 / 3
higher voltage to the motor with lower total harmonic distortion.
It gives a higher output Voltage for the same dc-bus voltage, lower
switching losses, and better harmonic performance. vref sin  D
T2 Ts (1)
For the ac machine drive application, full utilization of the dc bus
voltage is extremely important in order to achieve the maximum
output torque and minimum torque ripple[5-9] under all operating
conditions. In this aspect compared with any other PWM method
for the voltage source inverter, the PWM method based on volt-
age space vectors results in excellent dc bus utilization. SVPWM
scheme becomes the preferred PWM technique for various three-
phase power converter applications. With SVPWM the perfor-
mance of induction motor (IM) is improved because it minimizes
all the lower order harmonics in the output voltage of the inverter
(stator voltage of the IM) when compared to the conventional
SPWM technique[1-4].
Space vector PWM technique maintains balance between the ref-
erence voltage and the applied volt-seconds over every sub cycle
Ts. The reference vector Vref is synthesized using two active vec-
tors and zero vectors as shown in Fig.1
512
sin  3 / 3
Tz Ts  T1  T2
This T1 and T2 terms depend on Vref, Ts and angle (D). Here Ts
is switching time and it is constant. But Vref and angle (D) is
varying with time. So at every instant calculate Vref and angle
(D) is necessary. Calculating these values at every instant is very
difcult. The T1 and T2 terms also contains trigonometric terms
which are very difcult to implement in real time.
2 Imaginary switching times
In this method, the switching times can be calculated by using the
concept of imaginary switching times[10-12] where there is no