Design of Multisectional Driver and Field-Oriented Modeling of the Axial-Flux Linear Brushless Motor for Railway Transportations

A multisectional power driver design for the two-phase linear brushless motor is proposed in this paper. The field-oriented modeling of the axial-flux linear brushless motor (AFLBM) is also developed by using stationary and cosecant similarity transformation and singular value decomposition. Stationary and cosecant coordinate models were derived based on the proposed approach. Decoupled relation and constant torque property were obtained from the proposed models. Switching logic table for the linear motor operation is provided to drive the AFLBM properly. The switching-mode analysis for the power driver is also analyzed in detail. In order to increase the efficiency and the effectiveness of the electric motor applications, a multisectional driver circuit, which features the power driver with the so-called N + 2 structure, is investigated and compared. Experimental results show that the proposed circuit design can achieve better performance with the higher efficiency. It is believed that the proposed driver circuit technique and system modeling can be very helpful to the control of railway transportations.

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