Cascade speed control of a DC Motor Drive

Abstract

Initially, DC drives are used for variable speed control because they could
easily achieve a good torque and speed response with high accuracy. While a DC
drive produces an easily controlled torque from zero to base speed and beyond, the
motor’s mechanics are more complex and require regular maintenance. For the DC
Motor Modeling, it can be analyzed with control techniques of Step response, Impulse
response and Bode plot by using MATLAB Simulink. All data based on the internal
circuit of a simple DC Motor and its features can be analyzed both by Control System
design calculation and by MATLAB software. By the effect of MATLAB modeling
results of DC Motors, all others types of DC Motors can be chosen with their desire
applications. By the advance control analysis of easiest way, it can be solved with the
help of Modeling and Simulink using MATLAB. This is the concept of DC Motor
Control and MATLAB software.
Presently, speed control of electrical drives is preferably done by cascaded
control loops. In an inner control loop, the torque of the machine or some equivalent
quantity (may be current) is controlled, whereas in the next control loop the speed of
the drive is controlled.
The Simulink/ MATLAB implementation is adopted because of its inherent
integration of vectorized system representations in block diagram form, of numerical
analysis methods, of graphical portrayal of time evolutions of signals combined with
the simple realization of the functionality of controllers and power electronic
excitations. The development of Simulink models of drive assemblies is a relatively
simple task consisting of combining input-output block representation of the various
components making up the system; these blocks can readily be reused (utilizing
standard copy-and-paste techniques) to modify the system components or the
configuration of the system. This approach provides a powerful design tool because of
the ease of observing the effects of parameters modifications and of differing system
configurations and control strategies.
This project presents Simulink/ MATLAB based implementation to assess the
dynamic performance of open- and closed-loop dc drive systems.