Open AccessA Novel Technique for Tuning PI -controller In Switched Reluctance Motor Drive for Transportation Systems
Author(s) -
M. Iben Yaich,
Moez Ghariani
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of electrical and computer engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 22
ISSN - 2088-8708
DOI - 10.11591/ijece.v8i6.pp4272-4281
Subject(s) - control theory (sociology) , switched reluctance motor , pid controller , controller (irrigation) , ant colony optimization algorithms , computer science , matlab , electronic speed control , control engineering , engineering , control (management) , algorithm , torque , physics , temperature control , agronomy , electrical engineering , artificial intelligence , biology , thermodynamics , operating system
This paper presents, an optimal basic speed controller for switched reluctance motor (SRM) based on ant colony optimization (ACO) with the presence of good accuracies and performances. The control mechanism consists of proportional-integral (PI) speed controller in the outer loop and hysteresis current controller in the inner loop for the three phases, 6/4 switched reluctance motor. Because of nonlinear characteristics of a SRM, ACO algorithm is employed to tune coefficients of PI speed controller by minimizing the time domain objective function. Simulations of ACO based control of SRM are carried out using MATLAB /SIMULINK software. The behavior of the proposed ACO has been estimated with the classical Ziegler- Nichols (ZN) method in order to prove the proposed approach is able to improve the parameters of PI chosen by ZN method. Simulations results confirm the better behavior of the optimized PI controller based on ACO compared with optimized PI controller based on classical Ziegler-Nichols method.