Abstract
Recently, Switched Reluctance Motors (SRM)have been applied to several industrial products such as fans, blowers, pumps and so forth because of their simple construction and relatively high e ciency.As one of the examples, Daikin Industries Ltd.has been successful in manufacturing hydraulic pump unit using 2.2kW three-phase SRM with shaft mounted position sensor for its control. This paper presents the position sensorless drive o the SRM for the purposes of reducing cost and down sizing of the hydraulic pump unit system.The controller, intentionally designed for this special application, realizes the following characteristics;the maximum and minimum speeds are 5000 and 300rpm, the speed response between the maximum and minimum speeds is within 100msec and the starting torque is less than 20% of the rated torque.The experimental studies using the hydraulic pump unit show that the proposed sensorless control scheme satis es the requirements for this application.
