Neural network based vector control of induction motor

Sundarapandian et al. (Eds) : ACITY, AIAA, CNSA, DPPR, NeCoM, WeST, DMS, P2PTM, VLSI - 2013
pp. 75–83, 2013. © CS & IT-CSCP 2013 DOI : 10.5121/csit.2013.3409
NEURAL NETWORK BASED VECTOR CONTROL
OF INDUCTION MOTOR
Uthra.R1, N.Kalaiarasi2
, P.Srinivas Aruntej3
1
Department of Electrical & Electronics, SRM University, Chennai, India
uthra.r@ktr.srmuniv.ac.in
2
kalaiarasi.n@ktr.srmuniv.ac.in
3
tejarun13@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Stator current drift compensation of induction motor based on RBF neural network is proposed
here. In vector control of induction motor decoupling of speed and rotor flux equations and
their simultaneous control are used to achieve the highest efficiency and fast dynamic
performance. The highest efficiency is reached when the proper flux is selected and as a result
of dynamic decoupling of speed and rotor flux equations, the rotor flux can be modified to
achieve the highest efficiency and make the speed be at its desired value. The precise control of
these changes can also be done using radial basis function neural network (RBFNN). Once
neural network gets trained then it is able to differentiate between normal and fault conditions
and therefore acts in accordance to the change that could bring back the system to normal
condition. Here, neural network is used to compute the appropriate set of voltage and frequency
to achieve the maximum efficiency for any value of operating torque and motor speed.
KEYWORDS
Radial Basis Function Neural Network (RBFNN), Induction Motor, Vector control, k-means
algorithm.
1. INTRODUCTION
A drive system basically consists of an electric machine, a converter, primary sensor for feedback
signal, feedback signal estimator and system controller. The sensors are extremely important in a
drive system or any other feedback control system because primarily all control algorithms are
based on measurements. The sensor faults cause incorrect measurement of feedback signals due
to malfunction in the transducers and sensor circuit elements and upsets the system performance.
This paper proposes the use of Auto Associative neural network to compensate the drift problem
in feedback current sensors in a vector controlled induction motor drive.
Scalar control involves controlling only the magnitude of the control variables with no concern
for the coupling effects between these variables. Conversely, vector or field orientated control
involves adjusting the magnitude and phase alignment of the vector quantities of the motor.
Scalar control, such as the Constant Volts/Hertz method when applied to an AC induction motor
is relatively simple to implement but gives a sluggish response because of the inherent coupling
effect due to torque and flux being functions of current and frequency. Vector control de-couples
the vectors of field current and armature flux so that they may be controlled independently to

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provide fast transient response [1]. Accurate position control is not possible with scalar control
since this requires instantaneous control of the torque. This requires either, instantaneous change
to the stator currents, which is not possible due to energy storage effects, or instantaneous change
to the rotor current which in the case of scalar control is controlled indirectly via the stator
currents. Similarly, whilst scalar control may provide acceptable steady state speed control,
precise and responsive speed control due to load changes requires accurate and responsive torque
control. The vector approach overcomes the sluggish transient response when using scalar control
of AC motors [7].
2. VECTOR CONTROL
Vector control of an Induction motor is also called Field orientation control. In a typical AC
induction motor, three alternating currents electrically displaced by 120◦ are applied to three
stationary stator coils of the motor. The resulting flux from the stator induces alternating currents
in the ‘squirrel cage’ conductors of the rotor to create its own field these fields interact to create
torque. Unlike a DC machine the rotor currents in an AC induction motor cannot be controlled
directly from an external source, but are derived from the interaction between the stator field and
the resultant currents induced in the rotor conductors [13].
Figure 1. Vector control of Induction motor
Vector control of an AC induction motor is analogous to the control of a separately excited DC
motor [7]. In a DC motor the field flux ψf produced by the field current If is perpendicular to the
armature flux ψa produced by the armature current Ia. These fields are decoupled and stationary
with respect to each other. Therefore when the armature current is controlled to control torque the
field flux remains unaffected enabling a fast transient response.
In a vector-controlled drive, the machine stator current vector Is has two components: ids or flux
component and iqs or torque component, as shown in the phasor diagram. These current
components are to be controlled independently, as in a dc machine, to control the flux and torque,
respectively. The ids is oriented in the direction of ψr, and iqs is oriented orthogonally to it. The
controller should make the two inverse transformations, where the unit vector cosθe and sinθe in
the controller should ensure correct alignment of ids in the direction of ψr and iqs at 90◦ ahead of it.
Obviously, the unit vector is the key element for vector control [8]. There are two methods of
vector control based on the derivation of the unit vector. These are the direct (or feedback)
method and indirect (or feed forward) method. For closed-loop flux control in constant-torque
and field weakening regions, ids can be controlled within the programmed flux control loop so that
the inverter always operates in PWM mode [1].

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3. DRIVE SYSTEM
It has been established that iq and id of the rotating reference frame must be controlled to provide
good dynamic control of the induction motor. Using closed loop control ordered quantities of iq
and id are compared with the actual values measured from the motor. In order to obtain the motor
values, transformations on the measured 3 phase stator currents into the direct and quadrature
components of the rotating reference frame are performed. The resulting error terms are then
transformed back to 3 phase quantities and applied to the motor.
Figure 2. Block diagram of Vector control of Induction motor
The power circuit (Fig.2) consists of a DC source (battery or rectifier DC), PWM IGBT inverter
and cage type induction motor. The signal processing blocks include machine phase current
sensors, signals computation and controller, and the PWM algorithm [3]. The command torque
(Te*) and stator flux (ψs*) generate the active (iqs*) and reactive (ids*) current commands within the
block which are then translated to generate input for PWM controller. The machine terminal
voltages and currents are sensed and converted into stationery frame ds – qs signals. These
signals are then converted to rotating frame. The synchronous control loops then generate Vqs*
and Vds* signals. Vqs* and Vds* signals are then translated using inverse Clarke transformation and
fed as input to PWM controller. The PWM controller receives signals at the input and translates
to gate drive signals for the IGBT inverter [8].
4. RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NEURAL NETWORK
RBF is a Multilayer Perceptron Network (MLP) which is based on unit computing of non-linear
function of scalar product of input & output. For an auto associative net the training input and
target output vectors are identical. A stored vector can be retrieved from distorted or partial input
if the input is sufficiently similar to it. Auto-associative neural network is basically a feed
forward, fully-connected, multilayer perceptron (MLP) type neural network. The general RBF
network consists of 3 layers, Input layer, Hidden layer, Output layer.

Figure 3. Architecture of RBFNN
No. of neurons in input layer = 3
No. of neurons in hidden layer = 4 (obtained by using k-means algorithm).
No. of neurons in output layer = 3
The input layer is made up of source nodes that connect the network to its environment. The
second layer, the only hidden layer in the network applies a non liner transformation from the
input space to the hidden space. The output layer is linear, supplying the response of the network
to the signal applied to the input layer.
4.1. Algorithm
1. First the input is given to the input layer.
2. The network is simulated and initialized. For deciding the number of neurons in hidden
layer k-means algorithm is used.
3. Iterate until the network converges.
4. Calculate the error between the network’s o/p & the target o/p. if the error isn't in the
desired limit go to step 3 else go to step 5.
5. Observe the performance of the network with the training and the test data. Re-train if
necessary.
4.1. K - means Algorithm
1. Choose initial centres c1,...,ck.
2. While the clusters are changing, repeat step 3 to 4.
3. Assign data point pi to the cluster whose centre C is closest. This can be done by using
Euclidean distance.
4. Update the cluster centres given by :-
C= (1/n)∑ P.
n = number of points in C

Figure 4. Flowchart of RBF neural network
5. SIMULATION STUDY
To implement a RBF neural network for drift compensation of stator current, multiplicative errors
were implicated in the stator part of the induction motor. Stator currents were observed for
different values of errors implemented in ia, ib, ic, iaib, ibic & icia ranging from 0.1 to 1 and at
voltages ranging from 210 to 510 to obtain the training data for neural network. The
corresponding stator currents are shown in Figure 5 and 6. By introducing different errors in
Matlab Simulink, 960 sets of training data were obtained. Using this data the RBF neural network
with the implementation of k-means algorithm was trained and tested.

Figure. 5. Stator currents (ia,ib,ic)
Figure.6. Stator currents with error factor 0.1 in ia
6. RESULTS
Vector control of Induction motor was simulated using Matlab Simulink and three stator currents
ia,ib,ic were noted. Multiplicative errors were implicated in the stator currents to obtain the training
data for neural network. The RBF Neural network with the implementation of k-means algorithm
was trained and tested. Every time numbers of clusters and radius in the k-means algorithm were
varied and the result of the k-means algorithm which gives the clusters center and the number of
training data in each cluster were implemented in the RBFNN. Maximum absolute error,
minimum absolute error (target- output) and root mean square error (RMSE) at different radius
and cluster in the network were found to reduce. Figure 7 shows that the minimum RMSE is at
125 clusters. So for 960 sets of training data maximum absolute error was 2.006, minimum
absolute error was 0.00022339 and the RMSE was 0.34525 at 125 clusters and radius 5. The
satisfactory output was obtained for the layer with neurons 3 – 125 – 3 (Input–Hidden–Output).
RBF neural network with implementation of k-means algorithm was trained with 960 sets of data
and satisfactory output was obtained.

Figure. 7. Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) Vs cluster.
Table 1 Tested data with trained RBF Neural Network
Input Stator Current Target Stator Current Output Stator Current
Ia Ib Ic Ia Ib Ic Ia Ib Ic
1.5 15 15 15 15 15 15.002 15.002 15.002
15 13 15 15 15 15 14.994 14.994 14.994
15 15 4.5 15 15 15 15.007 15.007 15.007
6 17 17 17 17 17 17.007 17.007 17.007
17 3.5 17 17 17 17 16.993 16.993 16.993
17 17 8 17 17 17 16.998 16.998 16.998

RBFNN was tested and the output shown in Table1 was obtained. It can be observed that the drift
in stator current due to various faults in all the three phases are compensated by the neural
network validating that trained neural network restores back the closest possible original value of
stator current achieving the compensation in the stator current of the Induction motor.
7. CONCLUSION
Vector control of Induction motor using Radial basis function neural network has been
implemented in this paper. The neural network was trained with 960 sets of input data and tested
to obtain a satisfactory output. The result of the K-MEANS algorithm was implemented in the
RBFNN and hence the stator currents were restored to its original values. In this paper,
supervised learning algorithm has been adopted to train the neural network. Artificial neural
network can be implemented by either using supervised network or fixed weight network or both
the types of network. By implementing the above said networks, performance of Induction motor
can be improved as any change in the stator current has been compensated by the trained neural
network and henceforth its performance.
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AUTHORS
Uthra.R completed her graduation in Electrical & Electronics from Madras University
in 2002 and Masters in Power Electronics & Drives from SRM University in 2010. Her
area of interest is artificial intelligence in power Electronics & Drives. She is currently
working as Assistant Professor in SRM University.
N.Kalaiarasi received the Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication
Engineering from Periyar University in the year 2002 and Master of Engineering in
Power Electronics and Drives from college of Engineering, Anna University in the
year 2004. She is currently doing Research in the area of solar energy. She is currently
working as Assistant professor (Sr.G) in the Department of Electrical and Electronics
Engineering, SRM University, Chennai, India. Her area of interest includes Power
Electronics, Digital Signal Processing, and Fuzzy Logic applications in Drives, solar
energy.
Srinivas Arun Tej P received the Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in the year 2011 and Master of Engineering in Power
Electronics and Drives from SRM University in the year 2013.

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