Metaheurísticas de otimização aplicadas na sintonia de controladores PI de um acionamento DTC-SVM para motores de indução trifásicos

Abstract

Nowadays, a considerable focus has been given by scientific research to the electric motors drive, particularly to the three-phase induction motors with squirrel cage rotor, being commonly used in day-to-day applications, especially in industrial environments, due to its numerous and well known advantages. Among some strategies surveyed for driving these motors, there is the Direct Torque Control, a vector drive which provides good performance for medium and low power applications. A topology of this strategy involving the use of a Space Vector Modulation algorithm, called DTC-SVM, has been considered due to its advantages in comparison to conventional structure. However, in their algorithm there are torque, flux and speed control loops which generally consider Proportional-Integral controllers. In this work, a stator linkage flux estimator based on model of voltage and current is considered, in which its structure also contains a Proportional-Integral controller. Given this scenario, this work aims to contribute with the tuning aspect of these controllers, employing optimization metaheuristics aiming an optimized adjustment of the gains. Three metaheuristic algorithms are considered: Ant Colony Optimization, Differential Evolution and Particle Swarm Optimization. Basically, search ranges to the variables involved, ie. Proportional-Integral controller gains, as well as an objective function, which lists the main desired aspects of improving the system, must be set to the optimization process, which is performed by the computational simulation. Aiming to evaluate the effectiveness of this proposed methodology, in this work were made some analysis at the DTC-SVM drive system operating with the optimized tunings and a initial tuning, obtained by empiric adjusts. Such analysis were carried out either in a computer simulation environment, using MATLAB/Simulink software, as in a laboratory environment, considering a prototype developed, in which the system operates with speed reversal, as well as load disturbances. The results show efficient performances of the drive operating with the optimized tunings, especially during the transient periods and low speed operations.