IEEJ Transactions on Industry Applications
Online ISSN : 1348-8163
Print ISSN : 0913-6339
ISSN-L : 0913-6339
Volume 136, Issue 4
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  • Takahiro Tokita, Hiroki Goto, Osamu Ichinokura
    2016 Volume 136 Issue 4 Pages 248-253
    Published: April 01, 2016
    Released on J-STAGE: April 01, 2016
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    Switched reluctance (SR) motors are motors that utilize the reluctance torque originating in the magnetic saliency between the stator and the rotor, which are made up of an electromagnetic steel sheet and windings without a permanent magnet. Because of their robustness and simple structure, SR motors are suited for use as the in-wheel motor for traction motors of vehicles. In a flat space such as is present in in-wheel motors, the axial-gap structure has an advantage compared with the conventional radial-gap structure for the space factor of a motor. An axial-gap in-wheel SR motor was tested in a microbus, and the bus could be successfully driven. The test results regarding the motor performance were satisfactory. However, the motor emits a loud sound. The acoustic noise of the axial-gap SR motor is mainly caused by the axial electromagnetic force. This paper presents a method of reducing acoustic noise that is based on a model of the electromagnetic force on the axial-gap SR motor.
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  • Takahiro Yamazaki, Sho Sakaino, Toshiaki Tsuji
    2016 Volume 136 Issue 4 Pages 254-262
    Published: April 01, 2016
    Released on J-STAGE: April 01, 2016
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    This paper describes an estimation method for the physical parameters of human arms. The parameters are used in the medical and kinematic analysis fields. Personal differences are important, but some of the conventional methods do not consider personal differences pertaining to inertia in viscoelasticity muscular strength measurements. The remaining conventional methods that consider personal differences require precise measurement devices. The proposed method realizes kinetics modeling and identification of the friction and inertia including the off-diagonal parameters of human arms by using wearable robots. First, wearable robots are multi-input devices. In addition, the actuators of wearable robots can be located near human joints and can input M-sequence torque. Therefore, wearable robots can input signals having a high signal-to-noise ratio and ensuring persistently exciting characteristics in each human joint. By employing multi-input characteristics, the proposed method can reduce patients' burden by shortening the amount of time for estimation. In addition, we verify the accuracy of the estimated parameters by comparing the responses of the actual machine with those obtained by simulation.
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  • Junnosuke Nakatsugawa, Yoshitaka Iwaji, Yuji Enomoto
    2016 Volume 136 Issue 4 Pages 263-269
    Published: April 01, 2016
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    We have developed novel mathematical models of d-axis and q-axis magnetic fluxes ϕd and ϕq for permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs). The models can be used to approximate magnetic characteristics using simple fractional equations with id and iq as variables. They include eight constants, and some of them represent the degree of magnetic saturation and cross-coupling. However, the magnetic characteristics are varied with the temperature rise in PMSMs, which are dependent on the load torque and motor speed. In this paper, the characteristics of the eight constants that vary with the motor temperature and the residual flux density Br are shown. Further, we propose to extend the mathematical models by considering the temperature and Br variation.
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  • Takao Mori, Masayuki Nakamura, Shingo Makishima, Keiichi Uezono, Hiroh ...
    2016 Volume 136 Issue 4 Pages 270-276
    Published: April 01, 2016
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    The conventional auxiliary power supply (APS) of a railway vehicle is directly connected to the catenary through the LC filter. Hence, the switching devices of the APS must have a high breakdown voltage to account for catenary voltage fluctuation. On the other hand, low-voltage switching devices have better characteristics that are desirable for low-loss and high-frequency operation. Therefore, a step-down converter is incorporated between the LC filter and inverter to adapt to catenary voltage fluctuations when using low-voltage switching devices.  This paper proposes the series-parallel continuously regulated chopper as a novel step-down converter. First, the fundamental operation characteristics and output voltage control method of the proposed chopper are introduced. The simulation and experimental results for the fundamental characteristics are then described; the simulation and experimental values were almost the same as the theoretical values. The proposed chopper controls the output voltage at the expected value without dramatic fluctuation regardless of the input voltage fluctuation. In addition, a resonance damping control for a constant power load is proposed. The operational characteristics were considered under different potential distributions or load conditions.
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  • Kenji Natori, Kouhei Yoshikawa, Hidemine Obara, Yukihiko Sato
    2016 Volume 136 Issue 4 Pages 277-284
    Published: April 01, 2016
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    This study investigates power flow control methods for next-generation DC power networks. It has been anticipated that numerous distributed generators and energy storage devices will be introduced in next-generation power systems. Therefore, arbitrary and flexible power flow control methods for such power systems are required. In this work, we study a power flow control method that combines node voltage control and additional voltage insertion control on links (link voltage control) for controlling next-generation DC power networks. The effectiveness of the proposed power flow control method is demonstrated by experimental results. It is shown that the proposed power flow control method can be expected to be one of the promising approaches for the realization of next-generation power systems.
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  • Masashi Kobayashi, Katsuhiro Hirata, Noboru Niguchi, Fumiya Kitayama, ...
    2016 Volume 136 Issue 4 Pages 285-290
    Published: April 01, 2016
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    We propose a linear oscillatory actuator that converts rotational motion into linear motion using brushed DC motors. In this study, we verify the operating principle and characteristics of this actuator through FEM analysis and dynamic simulation. Additionally, we verify the validity of the analysis results through experiments on a prototype.
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  • Noboru Sawayama
    2016 Volume 136 Issue 4 Pages 291-301
    Published: April 01, 2016
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    The general solution for resonant inductive coupling circuits has not been obtained because the roots of the characteristic equation of the circuits are too complicated. In order to overcome the difficulty of solving the circuit equation, we have introduced a new method that is converting the second-order differential equation for the charges to the first-order differential equation for the vector whose elements are currents and charges, and incorporating the characteristic equation into the structure of the eigenvectors of the differential coefficient matrix. We thus obtained the general solution for the circuits. In addition, we derived formulas for power transmission and power reception. Results of numerical calculation in the time and frequency domains always satisfy the low of conservation of energy. We thus obtain a number of interesting results. For example, 1/4 cycle delay between power transmission and power reception is very interesting because it shows that the power transition from the primary coil to the secondary coil resembles the peristaltic motion of the magnetic field energy.
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  • Masashi Kisaka
    2016 Volume 136 Issue 4 Pages 302-307
    Published: April 01, 2016
    Released on J-STAGE: April 01, 2016
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    A method for designing the time response profile of the output of a discrete closed loop system caused by a sudden disturbance that takes the robustness of the system into consideration is proposed. The design is based on Youla parameterization. We express the parameter function Q by the finite series of z-1. As the sensitivity function has no pole other than z=0 when this controller is applied, we obtain finite time settling. We select the coefficients of z-i by taking the robustness into consideration. We applied the proposed finite time settling control to the HDD benchmark.
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