Direct torque control of the brushless DC motor with nonideal trapezoidal back EMF

In this paper a method of the torque control attenuating the undesired torque pulsation for a brushless DC motor with nonideal trapezoidal back EMF is presented. It is the direct torque control method in which the applied output voltage is calculated from the reference torque and the torque of the previous step in the two phase conducting period and in the commutation period considering the back EMF waveform. The time delay due to the calculation is also compensated by the one step ahead current prediction. To measure the instantaneous torque ripple, a torque observer is constructed using a high precision encoder of 50000 pulses per revolution. The simulation and experimental results show that the proposed method reduces the torque ripple significantly and that it keeps the torque control dynamics as well.<<ETX>>