The novel railway system RailCab makes use of autonomous vehicles which are driven by an AC linear motor. Depending on the track-side motor part, long-stator or short-stator operations are possible. The paper deals with the operation of the doubly-fed induction motor which is used for motion control and for transferring the energy required onboard the vehicle. This type of linear motor synchronization of the traveling fields generated by the stationary primary and moving secondary windings is an important and demanding task because the instantaneous positions of the vehicle or the primary traveling wave must be determined with high accuracy. The paper shows how this task is solved at the moment and what improvements are under development.


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    Title :

    Drive control and position measurement of RailCab vehicles driven by linear motors



    Conference:

    Sixth International Symposium on Instrumentation and Control Technology: Sensors, Automatic Measurement, Control, and Computer Simulation ; 2006 ; Beijing,China


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2006-10-30





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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