Intelligent control of induction servo motor drive via wavelet neural network

Abstract This study presents an intelligent control system for an induction servo motor drive to track periodic commands using a wavelet neural network (WNN). With the field orientation mechanism, the dynamic behavior of the induction servo motor drive system is rather similar to a linear system. However, the uncertainties, such as mechanical parametric variation, external disturbance, unstructured uncertainty due to nonideal field orientation in transient state, and unmodelled dynamics in practical applications influence the control performance. Therefore, an intelligent control system that is an on-line trained WNN controller with adaptive learning rates is proposed to control the rotor position of the induction servo motor drive. The adaptive learning rates are derived in the sense of discrete-type Lyapunov stability theorem, so that the convergence of the tracking error can be guaranteed in the closed-loop system. In the whole design process, the strict constrained conditions and prior knowledge of the controlled plant are not necessary according to the powerful learning ability of the intelligent control system. With the proposed intelligent control system, the controlled induction servo motor drive possesses the advantages of good tracking control performance and robustness to uncertainties under wide operating ranges. The effectiveness of the proposed control scheme is verified by both simulated and experimental results.