Non-Smooth Speed Control of Switched Reluctance Motor Based on Generalized Proportional Integral Observer

This paper investigates the speed regulation control of switched reluctance motor (SRM) systems. To improve the antidisturbance performance of SRM, a composite non-smooth control strategy is proposed. First, the structure of SRM is analyzed, and a simplified nonlinear model is obtained based on a segmented representation of the varying phase inductance. A virtual control function is introduced to represent the nonlinear part of the torque equation, whose inverse function is cascaded to linearized the nonlinear model. Second, a generalized proportional integral observer (GPIO) is constructed to estimate the lumped disturbance of the system, which is used for feedforward compensation design. Finally, a composite speed controller is designed based on a combination of finite time proportional feedback and feed-forward compensation based on GPIO (FTP+GPIO). The speed error closed-loop system can be regarded as a first-order finite time control system with bounded disturbances. Strict analysis shows that the proposed scheme can improve the anti-disturbance performance of the closed-loop system. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by simulation results. Moreover, it is compared with proportional feedback combining feed-forward compensation (P+GPIO) method and proportional integral (PI) control method.