Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.7305/automatika.2014.01.105

Fault Tolerant Bio-Inspired System Controlled Modular Switched Reluctance Machine

Loránd Szabó orcid.org/0000-0002-1096-4802 ; Department of Electrical Machines and Drives Technical University of Cluj-Napoca 400114 Cluj, 28 Memorandumului str., Romania
Mircea Ruba ; Department of Electrical Machines and Drives Technical University of Cluj-Napoca 400114 Cluj, 28 Memorandumului str., Romania
Csaba Szász ; Department of Electrical Machines and Drives Technical University of Cluj-Napoca 400114 Cluj, 28 Memorandumului str., Romania
Virgil Chindri¸s ; Department of Electrical Machines and Drives Technical University of Cluj-Napoca 400114 Cluj, 28 Memorandumului str., Romania
Géza Husi ; Department of Electrical Engineering and Mechatronics, University of Debrecen, 4028 Debrecen, 2-4 Ótemet˝o str., Hungary

Abstract

Fault tolerance is an obligatory feature in safety critical applications (aeronautical, aerospace, medical and military applications, power plants, etc.), where loss of life, environmental disasters, equipment destructions or unplanned downtimes must be avoided. For such applications, a novel bio-inspired motion control system is proposed. All its three components (the switched reluctance machine, the power converter and the control system) are designed to be as fault tolerant as possible. This paper describes all these three fault tolerant components: the bio-inspired control system having self-healing capabilities, the power converter with an extra leg and the fault tolerant modular machine. The theoretical expectations and simulation results are validated by means of laboratory experiments.

Keywords

tolerance; Bio-inspired system; Artificial cell; Embryonic machine; Motor control; Switched reluctance machine; Modular construction

Hrčak ID:

118931

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/118931

Publication date:

27.2.2014.

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