Abstract:
Transportation in the world especially in cities and towns is the main issue. Most of the
time transport is by using vehicles which use petroleum as a means of power source and
with combustion engines as a drive system which result in depletion of fuel source and
air pollution. Using electric energy for electric vehicle (EV) as power source uses electric
machines. In traditional electric machine applications a three-phase stator winding is
selected, since the three-phase supply is readily available. Now a days due to increase of
power demand, the three phase machines face challenges. These challenges are low
rating, low efficiency and low in fault tolerant ability, complication in speed control, high
torque pulsation and harmonics problems. In order to tackle these problems design of
multi-phase machines is one solution. In this thesis design, model and analyze 12-phase
induction machine proposed for electric vehicle application which is one of the multiphase
machine systems is considered. To complete this work, the methodology used is
vector space decomposition (VSD) modeling approach which is based on symmetrical
components theory. Machine variables are decomposed by VSD matrix resulting in
multiple decoupled two-dimensional subspaces and zero-sequence component(s). The
first subspace is a flux/torque producing one, meaning that whole electromechanical
energy conversion is happening here. Having the decoupled machine, it is easy to
implement any vector control strategy. After completing the work the result obtained is
increased number of degree of freedom, decrease in total harmonic distortion (1.429% for
three phase and 1.309% for twelve phase, power density (10.48/ms for three phase and
25.763% for twelve phase. when one phase is open, it operates with 1/3 of the rated
power. At last proper controlling model by using MAT LAB Simulink block diagram for
PI, fuzzy logic and hybrid speed controller is developed. To increase the reliability of the
controller hybrid PI-fuzzy logic controller is used and good result is obtained from
independent controller.