Constant Frequency Torque Controller for DTC with Multilevel Inverter of Induction Machine

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Constant Frequency Torque Controller for DTC with Multilevel
Inverter of Induction Machines
Norjulia Mohamad Nordin1
, Naziha Ahmad Azli2
, Nik Rumzi Nik Idris3
, Nur Huda Ramlan4
,
Tole Sutikno5
1,2,3
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Skudai, Johor Bahru, Malaysia
4
Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Faculty of Electrical and Electronics, Pekan, Pahang, Malaysia
5
Department of Electrical Engineering, Universitas Ahmad Dahlan, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Article Info ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received Oct 22, 2015
Revised Jan 7, 2016
Accepted Jan 23, 2016
Direct Torque Control using multilevel inverter (DTC-MLI) with hysteresis
controller suffers from high torque and flux ripple and variable switching
frequency. In this paper, a constant frequency torque controller is proposed to
enhance the DTC-MLI performance. The operational concepts of the
constant switching frequency torque controller of a DTC-MLI system
followed by the simulation results and analysis are presented. The proposed
system significantly improves the DTC drive in terms of dynamic
performance, smaller torque and flux ripple, and retains a constant switching
frequency.
Keyword:
Constant switching frequency
Direct torque control
Induction machines
Multilevel inverter
Torque Controller Copyright © 2016 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science.
All rights reserved.
Corresponding Author:
Norjulia Binti Mohamad Nordin,
Department of Electrical Power Engineering,
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia,
81310 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia.
Email: norjulia@fke.utm.my / norjulia@utm.my
1. INTRODUCTION
Since it has been introduced in early 1980s [1], Direct Torque Control (DTC) has gained its
popularity in electrical drives research area. Recently, the application of high-power medium voltage in AC
drives has shown rapid development. Thus, the use of multilevel inverters in DTC scheme has become an
important structure for further development and improvement. Numerous technical papers have shown a
superior performance of DTC scheme using multilevel inverters [2-34].
By utilizing the multilevel inverter in DTC scheme, the choices of voltage vectors that can be used
to control the torque and flux are increased. As a result, more precise control can be obtained. Several control
method have been proposed for DTC scheme using multilevel inverter (DTC-MLI); hysteresis-based and
non-hysteresis-based such as predictive control strategy [11, 15, 17, 18, 20, 22, 26, 27, 30], space vector
modulation strategy [2, 4, 8-10, 14, 21, 28, 29, 33] and fuzzy logic control strategy [3, 5, 7, 19, 31, 34-36].
The employment of hysteresis-based control strategy in discrete implementation has led to high
torque ripple even with a small hysteresis band. This is due to the delay in sampling time. Besides that, it
created a variable switching frequency of the switching devices which leads to an unpredictable harmonics
current.
As a result, some researchers preferred to use non-hysteresis-based control strategy. Significant
improvements are accomplished in terms of flux and torque ripple and devices switching frequency. However
it involves a complex mathematical equations and algorithm which has led to the complexity of the DTC-
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In [12], the DTC-MLI scheme employs a multilevel hysteresis controller. It shows some significant
improvements, however the power devices switching frequency are varies and the torque and flux ripple can
still be considered as high. A PI-constant switching frequency (PI-CSF) torque controller for DTC was
initially introduced in [37, 38]. The PI-CSF torque controller was replacing the conventional hysteresis
controller while maintaining the use of lookup-table. However it has been used for DTC with conventional 3-
phase inverter.
In this work, the PI-CSF torque controller is utilized in DTC-MLI system. Figure 1 shows a
proposed system block diagram. The proposed controller consists of a PI controller and a triangular carrier
signal. The constant switching frequency is obtained by comparing the PI controller output with the
triangular carrier signals. In this scheme, the proposed controller will replaced the multilevel hysteresis
torque controller. The proposed system is employed a 5-level cascaded H-Bridge multilevel inverter (CHMI)
as a power converter. The multiple isolated DC sources in CHMI are particularly suitable for an electric
vehicle (EV) application since the power source for an EV can be obtained from the battery modules.
Figure 1. Proposed system block diagram
In this paper, the operational concept of PI-CSF torque controller utilized in DTC-MLI system
followed by simulation results of the proposed system is presented. Furthermore the experimental results are
disclosed to validate the simulation results together with the analysis on the proposed system performance.
The results have shown that superior dynamic performance, smaller torque and flux ripples and constant
device switching frequency are achieved.
2. MULTILEVEL INVERTER
A 5-level cascaded H-Bridge multilevel inverter (CHMI) consists of 2 cells of H-Bridge inverter
connected in cascaded form with separated DC sources. Figure 2 shows a configuration of 5-level CHMI.
The number of voltage level, L, for CHMI can be determined by
2 1 (1)
Where m is a number of cell per phase. Each H-bridge cell produced Vjm output voltage, where j
denotes the phases; a, b, c. Since the cells are connected in series, the total output voltage for each phase
would be
∑ (2)
∑ (3)
∑ (4)
VaN, VbN and VcN is the voltage output per phase with respect to the neutral, N. By considering each
cell produce {-VDC, 0, VDC}, based on (2), (3) and (4), each phase will produce a 5-level output voltage;
2 , 1 , 0, 1 , 2 (5)

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In space phasor form, the output voltage, VS, that generated by the inverter can be defined as
(6)
Where a = ej2π/3
and a2
= ej4π/3
. In d-q form, the output voltage can be expressed as
2 (7)
√
(8)
Considering equation (5), (6) and (7), there exist 125 combinations of phase voltage with 61 voltage
vectors generated for 5-level CHMI. The higher the level of multilevel inverter, the higher the number of the
voltage vector generated, thus giving more degrees of freedom in choosing voltage vectors for control
purposes. Figure 3 and Figure 4 shows a voltage vector map on d-q plane generated from 5-level CHMI and
the configuration of the induction machines fed by 5-level CHMI, respectively.
Figure 2. 5-level cascaded H-bridge
multilevel inverter (CHMI)
Figure 3. Voltage vector map on d-q plane
Figure 4. 3-phase induction machine fed by 5-level CHMI

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3. STRUCTURE AND MODELING OF THE DTC WITH CONSTANT SWITCHING
FREQUENCY
To analyze the DTC drive in terms of its switching frequency, the induction machine is modeled
using the following equations. These equations are written in general reference frame.
(9)
0 (10)
(11)
(12)
The superscript “g” in the above equations denotes that the quantities are referred to the rotating
general reference frame. In the above equations, , and are the stator voltage, stator current and rotor
current, respectively. , , and are the stator resistances, rotor resistances, stator flux linkages and
rotor flux linkages, respectively. is the general reference speed and is the rotor speed. , and
are the stator self-inductance, rotor self-inductance and mutual self-inductance respectively.
The torque and mechanical dynamics of the induction machines are modeled as follows:
(13)
(14)
Where is the electromagnetic torque, is the torque load, J is the moment of inertia, p is the
number of pole and is the mechanical rotor speed.
By using (9) – (14) in the stationary reference frame, the positive and negative torque slope are
obtained by [39, 40]
⋅ (15)
⋅ (16)
Where σ is the total flux linkage factor, is the stator time constant and is the rotor time
constant. In (16), it is assumes that the zero voltage vectors are selected in order to reduce the torque. The
instantaneous stator flux frequency can be obtained in terms of the average synchronous frequency and duty
ratio [38]. Therefore (15) and (16) can be written in the stator flux reference frame as follows:
(17)
(18)
Where
(19)
(20)
(21)

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In (17) and (18), it is assumed that the q components of the particular voltage vector are zero and the
stator and rotor fluxes are constant which means that the voltage vectors are tangential to the circular stator
flux locus. Finally, the equation (17) and (18) are averaged and simplified to give
(22)
4. THE PROPOSED CONTROLLER
The proposed torque controller is employed as an alternative to the hysteresis-based controller with
the benefit of operating at constant switching frequency with low torque ripple. The proposed controller
consist of 6 triangular waveform generators, 6 comparators and a proportional-integral (PI) controller. Figure
5 shows the configuration of the proposed torque controller.
Figure 5. Proposed torque controller
The six triangular waveform generators generate 3 pairs of triangular waveforms (carrier signals)
with the same magnitude but with different DC offset. Each pair (CUpper and CLower) is 180° out of phase. In
principle, the proposed controller will produce the same output as an 8-level hysteresis controller in [12],
which can be either one of the following torque error status; 3, 2, 1, +0.5, -0.5, -1, -2, -3. The number of
levels, however, must be realistic enough for implementation purposes. In other words, the higher the number
of levels, the faster in terms of processor requirement is needed for implementation. By comparing the
triangular waveforms with the PI controller output, a constant switching frequency can be achieved.
The instantaneous value of the torque controller output, q(t), is given by (23). As for the average
value of the carrier signal period, Ttri, designated by d(t) is given by (24).
3, _
2, _ _
1, _
0.5, 0
0.5, 0
1, _
2, _ _
3, _

(23)
(24)

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4.1. PI Controler’s Parameter Selection
The selection of parameters value of PI controller is important to ensure the proper operation of
torque controller. Hence, a linear control system theory has been used to carry out the linearizing and
averaging process for the torque loop. Figure 6 shows a system torque loop.
Figure 6. Torque loop
After the averaging process of (15) and (16), a simplified and averaged torque equation can be
written as in (19). By introducing a small perturbation in Te, d and ωslip for linearization in (22) and
transformed it to the frequency domain, the small-signal transfer function and steady state equation can be
extracted as follows:

(25)
0 (26)
In (25), for simplicity, Kωslip(s) can be neglected since the contribution is relatively small. The
complete linearized proposed torque loop is shown in Figure 7.
Figure 7. Linearized torque loop
Preferably, in order to obtain faster torque response, the torque loop bandwidth should be as large as
it can. However, the selection of torque loop bandwidth and controller’s parameters, i.e., proportional gain,
Kp, and integral gain, Ki, are limited by several constraints such as hardware sampling time and carrier
frequency.
The parameters of 1.5kW induction machines as listed in Table I are used to calculate the numerical
values of torque loop transfer function using (19) - (20). In selecting the proportional gain of PI controller, it
must be ensured that the absolute slope of control signal, Tc, is not exceed the absolute slope of the carrier
signals.
Table 1. Induction Machine Parameters
Parameters Values
Stator Resistance, Rs 3 
Rotor Resistance, Rr 3.793 
Stator self-inductance, Ls 0.3222 H
Rotor self-inductance, Lr 0.3308 H
Mutual inductance, Lm 0.3049 H
No. of pole, p 4
Stator flux reference, ψs 0.896 Wb
Voltage Vector Magnitude, Vs
ψs
120 V

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For the positive slope, as in (17), the following condition must be satisfied:
〈 〉 (27)
Where the value of d in (27) is calculated from (26). For the negative slope, as in (18), the following
condition must be satisfied:
〈 〉 | | (28)
As the above mentioned, the torque loop bandwidth is chosen depends on the maximum bandwidth
limited by the DSP sampling time or the carrier signal frequency, depending on which is lower. It is desirable
to have a high carrier frequency in order to have a large torque loop bandwidth. However, the carrier signals
are generated by the DSP which restricted to its sampling time. In other words, torque loop bandwidth is
restricted to the software sampling time as well. To maintain the linearity between Tc and d, the carrier
signals are build with eight steps per cycle. Figure 8 shows a generated carrier signal under this condition
with a 75µs software sampling time. Based on the Figure 8, it shows that the carrier frequency is 1667 Hz
and the absolute slope of carrier signal is 333,333.333 s-1
.
Figure 8. Generated carrier signal sampled at 75µs
The maximum proportional gain which limited by the maximum positive slopes is assumed to be
occurred at zero rotor speed, ωr=0, and at rated slip, ωe = ωslip = 7.33 rad/s. By substituting this value and the
machines parameters value into (27), gives Kp
+
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the maximum absolute negative slopes is assumed to be occurred at maximum rotor speed. As in this work,
the maximum rotor speed achievable without field weakening is approximately 41 rad/s. By substituting this
value and the machines parameters value into (28), gives Kp
-
≤ 90.56. In order to ensure the control signal,
Tc, is not exceeding the absolute carrier signal slope, Kp is chosen as 39.5. It should be noted that, the gain
value is just an initial value that serve as a guide to operate the proposed controller. A fine tuning of the
controller should be done to achieve the excellent torque response. In this work, the corresponding PI
controller’s parameters are chosen as Kp = 37.85 and Ki = 6169.55. The open-loop bode plot of this PI
controller setting is shown in Figure 9. Based on Figure 9, the crossover frequency for this particular setting
is about 3.05 kHz.
Figure 9. Bode plot of the torque loop with PI controller
5. SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
The proposed system and a hysteresis-based system of DTC-MLI for induction machine have been
simulated using MATLAB/Simulink. The parameters of PI controller that obtained in the previous section
were used in the simulation as well as in the experiment. To show the feasibility of the proposed system, an
experiment was also carried out. Figure 10 shows the block diagram of the experimental set-up. A dSPACE
DS1104 controller card based on a TMS320F240 DSP, ALTERA DE2 FPGA board, IGBT-based 5-level
CHMI, a 1.5kW squirrel-cage induction machine coupled to a DC machine was used to execute the
experiment. The DS1104 was used to implement the hysteresis and the proposed controller also to estimate
the torque and stator flux at a sampling period 75µs. The FPGA was used to implement the voltage vector
selection table as well as to generate the blanking time for the IGBT.
The parameters of the induction machine as tabulated in Table I were used in both simulation and
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Figure 10. Experimental set-up block diagram
(a)
(b)
Figure 11. Simulation results of torque ripple. (a) DTC-MLI with hysteresis-based controller.
(b) DTC-MLI with PI-CSF controller

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(a)
(b)
Figure 12. Experimental results of torque ripple. (a) DTC-MLI with hysteresis-based controller. (b) DTC-
MLI with PI-CSF controller
Figure 11 and Figure 12 shows a simulation and experimental results of the torque ripple for DTC-
MLI with hysteresis-based controller with ΔT = 0.9N.m (or 10% of the rated torque) and DTC-MLI with PI-
CSF controller. Based on the experimental results, its clearly indicates that the reduction of torque ripple as
much as 26% in the DTC-MLI with PI-CSF controller compared to the DTC-MLI with hysteresis-based
controller. Using the PI-CSF controller, the designated controller is properly monitored and corrected the
level of errors to ensure the PI controller signal is within the appropriate carrier level hence suitable voltage
vector is selected either to increase or decrease the torque and been applied consecutively within a carrier
waveform period. However by using the hysteresis-based controller, the voltage vector is chosen based on
the comparison of the raw error signal with the hysteresis band which the selected voltage vector for
increasing or decreasing the torque is applied for the entire switching period.
Figure 13 and Figure 14 show simulation and experimental results of step response for DTC-MLI
with Hysteresis-based controller and DTC-MLI with PI-CSF controller respectively. Based on the
experimental results, DTC-MLI with PI-CSF controller shows 5% faster performance compared to the DTC-
MLI with hysteresis-based controller. In DTC-MLI with PI-CSF controller, the designated controller first
filtered and processed the torque error to ensure the large error will appropriately trigger the correct carrier
signal. As a result, the voltage vector with the highest torque increment (or decrement) is selected for large
errors hence produce faster torque response. In contrast, the raw torque error signal in the DTC-MLI with
hysteresis-based controller is directly controlled by the hysteresis bands which produce a slower response.

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(a)
(b)
Figure 13. Simulation results of torque response. (a) DTC-MLI with hysteresis-based controller.

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Figure 14. Experimental results of torque response. (a) DTC-MLI with hysteresis-based controller.
The frequency spectrum of the phase voltage for both simulation and experimental results of the
DTC-MLI with Hysteresis-based controller and DTC-MLI with PI-CSF controller are shown in Figure 15
and Figure 16 respectively. For the DTC-MLI with PI-CSF controller, the dominant harmonics is at the
carrier frequency of about 1667 Hz. On the contrary, a widely distributed harmonics in the frequency
spectrum with an unpredictable switching frequency is obtained for DTC-MLI with hysteresis-based
controller. The unpredictable switching frequency is undesirable since the switching capability of the inverter
is not fully utilized. In addition, it will create an unpredictable harmonics in current flow. Figure 17 shows a
simulation results for multilevel inverter line-to-line voltage (VAB).

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(a)
(b)
Figure 15. Simulation results of the frequency spectrum of phase voltage. (a) DTC-MLI with hysteresis-
based controller. (b) DTC-MLI with PI-CSF controller
(a)
(b)
Figure 16. Experimental results of the frequency spectrum of phase voltage. (a) DTC-MLI with hysteresis-
based controller. (b) DTC-MLI with PI-CSF controller

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(a)
(b)
Figure 17. Line-to-line voltage (VAB) for 5-level cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter. (a) Simulation.
(b) Experiment ; scale : 1V/div = 100V
6. CONCLUSION
A PI-CSF torque controller to enhance the DTC-MLI system has been proposed. With the proposed
controller, torque ripples are reduced and the switching frequency can be retained at a fixed value. The
operational concept together with the derivation of the proposed controller linear model has been presented.
The feasibility of the proposed controller is demonstrated by hardware implementation. A dSPACE DS1104
controller card based on a TMS320F240 DSP together with ALTERA DE2 FPGA board were used to
execute the experiment. From the results, this simple scheme has significantly improved the performance of
the DTC-MLI drive system yet maintained the simple structure of the DTC drive.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The author would like to thanks the Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia for the financial
funding of this project with vote number R.J130000.7823.3F523 and R.J130000.7808.4F799, also the
Research Management Center (RMC) of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia for their support on research
management and funding with vote number Q.J130000.2525.05H87 and Q.J130000.2523.05H26.
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BIOGRAPHIES OF AUTHORS
Norjulia Mohamad Nordin received her Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia, in 2006 and the M. Eng. Sc. Degree in Energy
System from The University of New South Wales, Australia, in 2008. She is currently working
towards her Ph.D. degree in the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia. Her current
research interests are AC drive system with multilevel inverter and field programmable gate
array application for drive system.
Naziha Ahmad Azli received her B. Sc. Degree in Electrical Engineering from University of
Miami, Florida, USA and M.E.E. and Ph.D. from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 1986, 1992
and 2002 respectively. She is now an Associate Professor at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
(UTM) with which she has been affiliated since 1988. She currently teaches Power Electronics at
both undergraduate and post-graduate levels at the university. Her research interests are power
quality, renewable / alternate / distributed energy and intelligent systems applied to power
electronics converters.

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Nik Rumzi Nik Idris (M’97–SM’03) received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from
the University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, in 1989, the M.Sc. degree in power
electronics from Bradford University, Bradford, U.K., in 1993, and the Ph.D. degree from the
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia, in 2000. He was a Visiting Research Associate
at the University of Akron, Akron, OH, in 2002. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. His research interests include AC drive systems and DSP
applications in power electronic systems. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE Industry
Applications, IEEE Industrial Electronics, and IEEE Power Electronics Societies.
Nur Huda Ramlan received her Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from
Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Perak, Malaysia, in 2009 and the M. Eng. in Electrical from
University Teknologi Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia in 2011. She is currently working towards her
Ph.D. degree in the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Her current research interests are passivity
based controller, active power filters and multilevel inverters.
Tole Sutikno is an Associated Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering at Universitas
Ahmad Dahlan (UAD), Indonesia. He is Editor-in-Chief, Principle Contact and Editor for some
Scopus indexed journals. He is also one of founder of the Indonesian Publication Index (IPI). He
has completed his studies for B.Eng., M.Eng., Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Diponegoro
University, Gadjah Mada University and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, respectively. His
research interests include the field of industrial electronics and informatics, power electronics,
FPGA applications, embedded systems, data mining, information technology and digital library.

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