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Instrumentation and Control of a High Power BLDC Motor for Small Vehicle Applications Alexander Rowe1 Gourab Sen Gupta1 Serge Demidenko2 1School of Engineering and Advanced Technology Massey University Palmerston North New Zealand School of Electronics and Computer Engineering RMIT International University Vietnam ARowe bto ltd co nz g sengupta massey ac nz serge demidenko rmit edu vn Abstract Brushless DC BLDC motors are becoming an increasingly popular motor of choice for low powered vehicles such as mopeds power assisted bicycles mobility scooters and in this reported application motorised mountain boards With rapid developments in technology high energy density batteries such as Lithium ion Polymer batteries are becoming more affordable and highly suitable for such vehicles due to the superior charge rate and light weight of the lithium chemistry batteries This combined with the high power light weight and low cost BLDC motor results in the BLDC motor being a very favourable solution over an internal combustion engine for low power vehicles with power requirements of up to 7kW A BLDC motor controller was developed specifically for the motorised mountain board application The motor controller is a sensored BLDC motor controller which takes inputs from Hall Effect sensors to determine the rotor position Many other sensors are used to monitor the variables that are critical to the operation of the motor controller such as the motor phase current battery voltage motor temperature and transistor temperature The reported system is further enhanced by several additional features such as output for an LCD screen regenerative braking timing advance cruise control and soft start functions These topics are discussed briefly in this paper Keywords sensored BLDC motor controller regenerative braking timing advance electric skateboard Hall sensors I INTRODUCTION A motorised mountain board allows users to take the extreme sport of mountain boarding which is normally limited to downhill use only to flat and uphill surfaces This gives the users a much wider choice of locations where they can use the mountain board A BLDC outrunner motor has been used for this application An outrunner motor was chosen for its low speed 130 RPM v high torque characteristics which reduces the gearing requirements a 3 8 1 gear ratio is used which is achieved in a direct chain drive The motor is a Turnigy C80100 130 which has a power rating of 6 5 kW This amount of power is sufficient to drive small vehicles to speeds of approximately 70 km hr however the gearing and battery voltage has been selected to limit the mountain board to 50 km hr Consequently the torque at the wheels is increased and is sufficient to allow the motorised mountain board to climb steep hills A sensorless controller requires the motor to produce a measureable back EMF for the motor controller to be able to determine the position of the rotor and therefore cannot provide smooth commutation at start up and low speeds In contrast a sensored BLDC motor controller uses position sensors and therefore is able to determine the rotor position at any speed This allows for smooth commutation during start up A sensored BLDC motor controller was built for this reason II ELECTRICAL SYSTEM OVERVIEW A mixed signal field programmable microcontroller the Silicon Laboratories C8051F020 has been used to control the motor driver circuit according to a range of inputs from various sensors Custom made software was programmed in C which runs on the microcontroller This software determines the operation of the motor controller Fig 1 shows the functional blocks of the motor controller The motor controller uses a three phase H bridge to drive the motor This circuit was chosen because it allows for four quadrant operation of the motor as well as coasting Fig 2 shows the schematic diagram of the three phase H bridge Figure 1Overview of the major components of the motor controller 978 1 4577 1772 7 12 26 00 2012 IEEE The motor controller is built to meet the specifications of the motor the motor controller should be capable of supplying 130A at 48V for bursts of 5s and be able to supply at least 40A continuously The devices of choice for the switches in the H bridge are N channel metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors N MOSFETS These were chosen for their low cost and their ability to share current relatively evenly when paralleled together 1 To achieve the target current capability of 130A two N MOSFETS are used in parallel for each of the six switches in the three phase H bridge A Motor Driver Circuit A gate driver IC is used between the microcontroller and the gates of the MOSFETS for three reasons To step up the 3 2V logic signal from the microcontroller to a 12V signal for the low side transistors in order to saturate the MOSFET To provide a charge pump circuit for driving the gate of the high side transistors to 12V above the voltage on the source pin in order to saturate the MOSFETS To provide shoot through protection with programmable dead time for the three phase H bridge Gate resistors between the output from the gate driver IC and MOSFET gate are used to slow the switching times of the transistors This is to reduce the rate of change of current di dt through the motor windings 2 The self inductance of the windings causes an induced voltage across the winding that is proportional to the rate of change of current when the transistors are switched on and off This induced voltage can cause the transistors to experience a voltage that exceeds the Vdss rating causing them to blow These gate resistors are arranged in a way to reduce ringing issues with the paralleled transistors 3 Fig 3 shows the schematic diagram for the gate resistor circuit that will reduce ringing in a half bridge circuit This can be extended if more transistors are required in parallel Slowing the switching time of the transistors alone is not enough to protect the transistors from blowing bus capacitors are also used to absorb the voltage spikes 2 Low equivalent series resistance ESR capacitors are required because the frequency of the voltage spike is very high around 50 MHz Standard electrolytic capacitors are not fast enough to absorb transient voltages of such frequencies The Motor Controller circuit incorporates a Hall Effect current sensor to measure the phase current of the motor This allows the Motor Controller to cut the power to the motor if the phase current exceeds the specified limit in order to protect the motor windings from burning out and the transistors from blowing due to the current exceeding the maximum rating The Hall Effect current sensor output is an analogue signal that is proportional to the current flowing through a wire A bi directional current sensor is used in this application to allow for current measurements while regenerative braking The Motor Controller also uses a voltage sensor circuit to take measurements of the battery voltage If the voltage is lower than the specified minimum voltage of the battery the motor controller will cut the power to the motor This is important as to not over discharge the Lithium ion Polymer battery pack which can permanently reduce the capacity of the battery 4 Because of the wide range of operating voltages that the motor controller is able to run on from 16V to 70V voltage sensing is done using a simple voltage divider circuit with a low pass RC filter a level shifter is not used Temperature sensors are installed in the motor and on the heat sink of the transistors to allow the motor controller to cut the power to the motor if either of the temperatures exceeds a pre defined limit The on board temperature sensor of the microcontroller is also used to take measurements of the microcontroller temperature Again the motor controller will cut the power if the microcontroller is overheating The current sensor voltage sensor and temperature sensors all output analogue signals Because these sensors are in close proximity to the power electronics in the motor driver circuit the small signal analogue outputs from the sensors are highly susceptible to noise For this reason a RC low pass filter is used for each of the analogue signals to filter out the high frequency noise Each filter is tuned to filter any noise that is of slightly higher frequency than the highest expected frequency from the sensor Figure 2 Three phase H bridge circuit for driving a BLDC motor Figure 3 Circuit diagram for gate resistors to minimize the effect of ringing in the MOSFET gates B Regenerative braking The motor controller incorporates a simple regenerative breaking function The amount of energy regenerated during normal use in a flat or uphill application is very little However because regenerative braking is the only braking method that does not simply convert kinetic energy into heat energy which heats up the transistor heat sink and the motor it was included in the project Regenerative braking is achieved by boosting the back EMF of the motor to a higher voltage than the battery voltage by using a boost converter circuit Fig 4 shows the schematic diagram of a basic boost converter circuit 5 This circuit is implemented without any additional hardware It is created by using the low side transistors of the three phase H bridge as the switching device the motor windings as the inductor and the high side flyback diodes as the diode in the boost converter circuit Three of these circuits are in fact used one for each of the three phases The output voltage of the boost converter is controlled by varying the PWM duty cycle of the low side transistor As the output voltage is increased the charging current is increased which results in the braking force being increased Therefore the braking force is controlled by reading the position of the brake lever and adjusting the duty cycle accordingly The charging current has to be kept within specified limits to prevent damage to the battery pack For the Lithium ion Polymer battery pack used in this application the maximum charging current is 20A It was calculated that 20A of charge current provides sufficient brake power to slow down from 30 km hr to a complete stop in 3s C Timing Advance Timing advance is used in both brushed and brushless DC motors 6 In brushed DC motors this is done by mechanically moving the position of the brushes relative to the motor windings In BLDC motors timing advance is done electronically by commutating the motor sooner than it would normally do so Ideally the amount of timing advance expressed as an angle of electrical rotation would be continuously variable from 0 at zero speed to some maximum advance angle at the maximum motor speed This can be done with a microcontroller however it requires much processing and would require a dedicated microcontroller 7 The large amount of processing is required because the microcontroller must predict when the next motor position will occur based on the speed of the motor and then calculate the time delay between the last motor position transition and the next transition for the desired angle of advance With this information the microcontroller can trigger the commutation at the calculated time after the previous transition D Internal position sensors In this application a simple approach to timing advance has been taken two sets of Hall Effect sensors have been installed inside the motor One set is positioned for neutral timing the other set is positioned 30 electrical rotation from the neutral timing set This second set of Hall Effect sensors produce a signal for 30 advanced timing in the forward direction or 30 retarded timing in the reverse direction This angle of advance was recommended by 8 as an optimum amount of timing advance for this motor at 5000RPM which is near the top speed of the motor when running on a 42V battery Also because the motor has a 12 pole stator each pole is spaced 30 apart This means that both the neutral timing and advanced timing set of Hall Effect sensors can conveniently be mounted in the gaps between the stator poles Fig 5 shows waveforms of the signals from the neutral and 30 advanced motor position sensors The top three waveforms are from the neutral timing set and the bottom three are from the advanced timing set of motor position sensors This shows the advanced timing transitions occurring 30 of electrical rotation before the neutral timing transitions With this angle of timing advance it also works out that the signal for 30 advanced timing in the reverse direction can be generated from the signal from the second set of hall sensors This is because the signal for 30 retarded timing is identical to the 30 advanced signal when phase shifted by 60 which is the spacing between motor position transitions This results in the 30 retarded signal being exactly one sequence behind the 30 advanced signal By generating this third signal it is possible for the Motorboard to use 30 advanced timing in the Figure 4 Circuit diagram showing how the boost converter circuit is implemented using a half bridge Figure 5 Waveforms from the neutral and 30 advanced motor position sensors forward and reverse direction The microcontroller is able to switch between neutral timing and advanced timing depending on the speed of the motor The software makes use of a hysteresis by switching to advanced timing at 4800 RPM and back to neutral timing at 4700 RPM III SOFTWARE DESIGN The microcontroller is programmed with custom made software to allow for additional functions that are unique to this motor controller The software is largely interrupt based for improved computational efficiency and reliability Each time the microcontroller reads an analogue input eight consecutive readings are taken and the average of these readings is calculated and used to set the new value of the variable that is being read This helps to further reduce the effect of noise on the analogue signals from the various sensors Distance measurements are done by counting the number of new motor positions For this particular motor there are 6 rotor positions in an electrical revolution and 7 electrical revolutions in a physical revolution of the motor With a wheel diameter of 200mm and a gear ratio of 3 8 1 it can be calculated that after 254 new motor positions the mountain board will have travelled 1 meter When the new position counter reaches 254 the distance counter is incremented by 1 m and the new position counter is reset to zero Speed measurement is achieved by using one of the on board timers to time the interval between two consecutive motor position readings The distance travelled for a single position increment is known and therefore the speed can be calculated At high speeds the average of eight speed readings is used for improved accuracy Fig 6 illustrates the basic flow diagram of the motor controller software A Soft Start The purpose of the soft start function is to protect the motor and motor driver circuit from experiencing an over current condition during start up This is required because when the motor is at low speed or stationary there is little or no back EMF produced by the motor The back EMF opposes the voltage applied to the motor terminals therefore the voltage experienced by the motor is the difference between the supply voltage and the back EMF voltage With no back EMF the voltage experienced by the motor is large The only resistance in the circuit is that of the on resistance of the transistors 0 008 9 the resistance of the motor windings 0 036 and the resistance of the wires which is also very low Thus the current can reach very large levels when the motor is stationary or running at a low speed The soft start function limits the power to the motor as a function of speed at which the motor is running This is done by setting a maximum allowable duty cycle of 5 at zero speed and increasing this limit linearly to 100 at 1900 RPM This function is implemented in the main loop of the program and therefore does not effect the operation of the critical interrupt based functions B Cruise control The cruise control function uses PI control to maintain the speed of the Motorboard at the speed set point The set point is taken as the current speed at the time when the cruise control is activated by switching on the cruise control switch on the handheld controller The PI controller varies the PWM duty cycle in order to maintain the speed at the set point as the load changes i e when travelling up a hill The cruise control function is deactivated then the user applies the brakes When the user stops using the brakes the new speed is taken as the set point The values for the proportional factor and integral factor were found experimentally IV HANDHELD CONTROLLER The user interface for the motorised mountain board is a handheld controller The shell of a radio controlled car transmitter was used as the base of the handheld controller This shell was modified by stripping out the circuit board cutting off the battery case and mounting a LCD module into it The trigger mechanism was retained and is used as the accelerator and brake control pull back the trigger to accelerate push forward to brake There are two variable resistors rotary potentiometers that are also utilised one is used to set the maximum duty cycle for the controller This allows the maximum speed of the Motorboard to be limited by the user which is useful when someone is using the Motorboard for the first time The other variable resistor is used to cycle through the various data that is Figure 6 Basic flow diagram of the microcontroller program displayed on the LCD module There are two switches that are used by the motor controller one is used to turn the controller on and off the other is used as the cruise control on off switch The completed Motorboard and the handheld controller are shown in Fig 7 The LCD screen is only large enough to display two lines of 16 characte