Photovoltaic Cells Fed a Dual Open-End Winding Induction Motor Driven by Fuzzy Field-Oriented Control

The study presented in this article focuses on photovoltaic solar panels (PV) powering a Dual Open-End Winding Induction Motor (DOEWIM) fed by four three-phase inverters. Field Oriented Control (FOC) is adopted to regulate the stator current, rotor flux and rotation speed of the proposed machine, and Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) technique is used to maximize power output from the solar panel. In order to achieve high performances in terms of fast dynamic speed response and best disturbance rejection, Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) is used for speed regulation. The main objective of this work is to introduce renewable energies into the drive of induction motors, especially those with open windings, in order to obtain several advantages, such as obtaining more robust performance towards external and internal disturbances, reduction of torque and flux ripples, minimization of stator current harmonics, and elimination of common mode voltage (CMV). The results obtained demonstrated the realization of the main advantages mentioned above, which confirms the validity of the proposed control on the topology of the induction motor studied.

Keywords: Photovoltaic, Maximum power point tracking, Field oriented control, Open-end winding, Fuzzy logic controller

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