A Hardware-in-the-Loop Realization of a Robust Discrete-Time Current Control of PMa-SynRM for Aerospace Vehicle Applications

The hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) realization platform significantly supports the advance of control techniques in secure, precise, and low-cost design. Innovative control techniques are anticipated to ensure aerospace vehicle drive controllability. This paper presents a novel robust discrete-time (RDT) predictive current control (PCC) strategy of a permanent-magnet-assisted synchronous reluctance motor (PMa-SynRM) implemented using the HIL tool and the experimental setup. The proposed RDT controller has a discrete-time integral term added to the conventional deadbeat (DB) current predictive control to improve the robustness and stability of the current control. The PMa-SynRM mathematical model with parameter uncertainties is theoretically derived. Conventional PCC techniques are constructed utilizing the DB framework. Although this controller has a good dynamic response, it still suffers from unmodeled transient changes as well as parametric motor uncertainties. A 6-kW PMa-SynRM machine drive system is built and tested using DS1104 R&D Controller Board. Typhoon HIL is used to emulate the PMa-SynRM and the inverter connected to a dSPACE MicroLabBox. The performance of the proposed RDT technique is assessed and compared with traditional DB using the HIL and experimental results under different speed commands, electrical and mechanical motor parameters variations, and rated speed reversal conditions.