H-infinity robust control technique for controlling the speed of switched reluctance motor

The switched reluctance motor (SRM) is applied in various industrial applications due to its profitable advantages. However, the robustness speed of SRM is one of the major drawbacks, which greatly affects the performance of motor. Thus, the aim of this paper is to control the speed of SRM using H-infinity control strategy. This H-infinity control technique is stronger against robustness. In the proposed speed controller, the rotor position of the SRM is applied to the controller. The speed variation of the rotor is determined from the reference speed and applied to the controller as input. Then, the speed variation and the corresponding sensitivity function are determined. The sensitivity function determination is based on the input weight of the controller. The weight adjustment process is repeated until a stable speed condition is achieved. Then, the output of the proposed control technique is compared with the existing control technique and the robustness is analyzed. Here, the existing control techniques considered are proportionalintegral (PI) controller and fuzzy logic controller (FLC)-based PI gain tuning. The proposed control strategy is simulated in MATLAB working platform and the control performance is analyzed.

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