The Biaxial Excitation Generator for Automobiles (BEGA) is proposed as a solution for integrated starter/alternator systems used in hybrid electric vehicles. This paper demonstrates through experiments and simulations that BEGA has a very large constant power speed range. A vector control structure is proposed for BEGA operation during motoring and generating, at unity power factor with zero d-axis current (id) and zero q-axis flux (Psi q) control. In such conditions, BEGA behaves like a separately excited dc brush(commutator) machine, in the sense that no stator inductance voltage drop occurs in such constraint control conditions. A high iq current is required in order to cancel the q-axis flux, during unity power factor operation. This engages higher copper losses in the machine under light load. In order to minimize the copper losses, for lower load levels, a current referencer is proposed. Due to higher dc field excitation time constant, the dc field current response is not very fast, particularly for high-current excursion. In order to increase the torque response quickness, the d-axis current id is controlled with a nonzero reference value only during transients, when there is a difference between the reference and measured dc field currents. This way, high dynamic performance is secured. Implementation, digital simulation, and experimental results validate the proposed solutions.
BEGA starter/alternator-vector control implementation and performance for wide speed range at unity power factor operation
IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications ; 46 , 1 ; 150-158
2010
9 Seiten, 19 Quellen
Article (Journal)
English
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