Novel high-perfomance (efficiency, robustness, torque
density, affordability, vibroacoustics, etc.) microdrives
with advanced electric machines still challenge academia,
industry, and government laboratories. The current drive
systems for land, surface, and undersea vehicles in
automotive and marine applications do not satisfy the
requirements imposed. As a result, new solutions are
sought. In particular, novel hardware (electric micromotor
- power converter with microcontroller on a single chip)
and robust software must be designed and implemented.
Therefore, it is a strong interest to design novel electric
micromachines and IC-based power electronics with
controllers. We document novel results in modeling,
analysis, and control of high-performance electric
microdrives with synchronous reluctance motors. In this
paper, to attain the highest degree of integrity of controlled
system (electric motor - IC convertericontroller),
electromagnetic theoly and classical mechanics are used to
comprehensively study complex phenomena and effects.
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The corresponding nonlinear differential equations are
found and used to design and verify different control laws.
A wide spectrum of the interactive software tools,
algorithms, and programs were developed to solve the
long-standing problems. The experimental results illustrate
the efficiency of the modeling, analysis, and control tools.