J. Zhang et al., SIMULATOR OF DC TRACTION MOTORS INCLUDING BOTH MAIN POLE AND INTERPOLE SATURATION, IEE proceedings. Electric power applications, 145(4), 1998, pp. 377-382
The paper presents a two-dimensional saturation model for DC traction
motors. Two look-up tables are employed, which are the measured satura
tion curves for main poles and interpoles, respectively. Besides the s
aturation caused by field currents, an algorithm is derived to account
for the flux weakening caused by armature reaction. The effects of sa
turation on all inductance parameters are presented, and Variations of
the armature inductance with both main pole saturation and interpole
saturation are modelled. A Simulink motor model is presented to implem
ent the above features in simulation, and is used as a visualisation s
imulator for DC traction motors. The simulation results from this simu
lator have been confirmed by comparisons with measurements.