Improvement in Synchronous Motor Speed Control System Using MPC Technique

Constant speed applications are very prevalent pertaining to synchronous motors. Power factor correction is another application of these motors in power houses. The reason behind calling these motors synchronous is that they run with the same speed as the applied 3 phase ac frequency. This research work is focused on controlling the speed of synchronous motors. For a considered model of synchronous motor, Ziegler-Nichols tuning method based PID and Model predictive control (MPC) systems are designed in MATLAB. The comparison of performance between these two developed control systems has been done on basis of setpoint and disturbance responses.