SMART: Modular Architecture for Reliable Transportation

Papadopoulos, Savvas; Galassini, Alessandro; Ruksnaitis, Laimons; Farhat, Nabilah; Kiselychnyk, Oleh; Midgley, Will; Degano, Michele

Abstract

This paper proposes a new ultra-reliable architecture for fully electric propulsion primarily aimed at the automotive sector. The system considers a direct drive arrangement, minimizing the number of moving components and is based on a network of multi-three-phase machines providing propulsion. The DC-link from each 3-phase star within each machine can be interconnected to form a network, or mesh, which would allow a variety of post-fault mitigation strategies. The system scaling is considered along with the benefits and impact of modularity on device ratings. Finally the simulated performance for one drive is presented demonstrating the core capability in redirecting power flow in case of a fault.

Citation

Papadopoulos, S., Galassini, A., Ruksnaitis, L., Farhat, N., Kiselychnyk, O., Midgley, W., & Degano, M. (2019). SMART: Modular Architecture for Reliable Transportation. . https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2019.8926931

• Conference Name: IEEE IECON 2019 Conference, the 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
• Conference Location: Lisbon, Portugal
• Start Date: Oct 14, 2019
• End Date: Oct 17, 2019
• Acceptance Date: Jul 13, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Dec 9, 2019
• Publication Date: Dec 9, 2019
• Deposit Date: Sep 27, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 27, 2019
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Series ISSN: 2577-1647
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2019.8926931
• Keywords: reliability, multi three phase, automotive transportation, electric propulsion, fault strategy
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2012617