D. Kastha et Ak. Majumdar, An improved starting strategy for voltage-source inverter fed three phase induction motor drives under inverter fault conditions, IEEE POW E, 15(4), 2000, pp. 726-732
Three phase voltage-fed inverter induction motor drives are prone to shoot
through and other inverter faults that cause the drive system to shut down.
The paper describes a novel strategy for restarting the drive in variable
voltage variable frequency single phase mode in the presence of open base d
rive and shoot through fault in the inverter. The proposed method requires
only the motor terminal voltages and currents to be measured. Therefore, it
can be applied to even low performance open loop drives with the addition
of two motor terminal voltage sensors. The starting algorithm has been veri
fied by computer simulation and experiments on a 1 hp laboratory prototype.
Experimental results are in good agreement with simulation predictions. Th
e starting strategy described in this paper is expected to provide an econo
mic alternative to more expensive redundancy techniques which find justific
ation only in a few specialized applications.