Fault Tolerant Bio-Inspired System Controlled Modular Switched Reluctance Machine

• Published in: Automatika Vol. 55; no. 1; pp. 53 - 63
• Main Authors: Szabó, Loránd, Ruba, Mircea, Szász, Csaba, Chindriş, Virgil, Husi, Géza
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ljubljana Taylor & Francis 01.01.2014; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Aerospace safety; Artificial cell; Bio-inspired system; Control systems; Control systems design; Disasters; Electric power generation; Electronics; embrijski stroj; Embryonic machine; Fault tolerance; Military applications; Modular construction; Modular systems; modularna konstrukcija; Motion control; Motor control; otpornost na kvarove; Power converters; Power plants; prekidačko-reluktantni stroj; Reluctance machinery; Safety critical; sustav nadahnut prirodom; Switched reluctance machine; umjetna stanica; upravljanje motorom
• ISSN: 0005-1144; 1848-3380
• DOI: 10.7305/automatika.2014.01.105

Fault tolerance is an obligatory feature in safety critical applications (aeronautical, aerospace, medical and military applications, power plants, etc.), where loss of life, environmental disasters, equipment destructions or unplanned downtimes must be avoided. For such applications, a novel bio-inspired motion control system is proposed. All its three components (the switched reluctance machine, the power converter and the control system) are designed to be as fault tolerant as possible. This paper describes all these three fault tolerant components: the bio-inspired control system having self-healing capabilities, the power converter with an extra leg and the fault tolerant modular machine. The theoretical expectations and simulation results are validated by means of laboratory experiments.