ELEC-E8405 Electric Drives Exercise 3
Problem 1: Transfer functions of a DC motor
The block diagram of a DC motor is shown in the figure.
(a) Derive the transfer functions
ωM (s) ωM (s)
Gωu (s) = and GωT (s) =
ua (s) TL (s)
(b) Replace the electric dynamics of the machine with the DC gain and formulate
the transfer functions Gωu (s) and GωT (s).
TL
ua 1 1 ia TM 1 1 ωM
kf
La s J s
Ra
ea
kf
Problem 2: Current ripple
The parameters of a DC motor are: Ra = 1 Ω, La = 10 mH, and kf = 4 Vs. The
average steady-state current taken by the motor is Ia = 100 A and the rotor speed
is 560 r/min. The motor is supplied from a four-quadrant DC-DC converter, where
the unipolar PWM is applied. The DC-bus voltage is Udc = 450 V and the switching
(carrier) frequency is fsw = 4 kHz. Calculate the peak-to-peak current ripple.
ua
Udc
Ua
0
t
ia
Ia
0
1/fsw t
1/1