Simulation of Speed Control of Brushless DC Motor, With Fuzzy Logic Controller

International Journal of Electrical, Electronics and Data Communication, ISSN: 2320-2084
Volume-2, Issue-4, April-2014
SIMULATION OF SPEED CONTROL OF BRUSHLESS DC MOTOR,

WITH FUZZY LOGIC CONTROLLER
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C. SHEEBA JOICE, 2P.NIVEDHITHA
1,2
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Saveetha Engineering College, Chennai, India
Email: sheebajoice@saveetha.ac.in, nivedhitha.sembian@gmail.com
Abstract The electronically commuted Brushless DC motors are widely used in many industrial applications which
increase the need for design of efficient control strategy for these noiseless motors. This paper deals with the efficient speed
control mechanisms for these drives using meaningful fuzzy sets and rules. The fuzzy logic controller is developed using a
MATLAB/ Simulink tool. The paper deals with the possibility of designing a control strategy, to achieve accurate speed
control with the advantages of low cost. The proposed method is simple and efficient compared with the conventional
controllers.
Keywords BLDC motor drive, Fuzzy Logic Controllers, Fuzzy sets and Fuzzy rules, Speed control.
I.
The rotor position is sensed which enables

commutation logic for the three phase inverter circuits
that contain MOSFET switches.
INTRODUCTION
A. BLDC Motor with Hall Sensors

Brushless DC motors works similar to the
conventional DC motor with the mechanical
commutation replaced by an electronically controlled
commutation system. These motors have the rotating
permanent magnets and stationary armature. The
BLDC motor that are utilized in the proposed control
design is star connected BLDC motor. The power
distribution is achieved by the intelligent electronic
controller. The electronic controller requires rotor
position information for proper commutation of
currents in the respective stator windings. The rotor
position can be sensed using Hall effect sensors
embedded in the stator and thus stator windings are
energized accordingly.
BLDC motor drive control can be done in sensor or
sensor less mode. Though the sensor less control offers
the advantage of reduced cost, the sensor less control
offers low performance at transients or low speed
range with increase in complexity of the control
electronics and algorithms makes the use of Hall
sensors more efficient. Embedded control of BLDC
motors using dsPIC30f4013 generates a PWM signal
that controls the inverter topology there by controlling
the drive. High flexibility of control can be obtained by
implementing efficient control algorithm in the
controller .
TABLE I
Clockwise Hall Sensor Signals and Drive Signals
Ha
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
Hb
0
0
1
1
0
0
1
1
Hc
0
1
0
1
0
1
0
1
Q1
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
Q2
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
Q3
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
Q4
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
Q5
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
Q6
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
Where Ha, Hb, Hc represents the Hall sensor signals.

Q1 - Q6 represents the MOSFETs in the Switching
circuit.
The Hall sensors should be kept 120 apart to obtain
symmetrical operation of motor phases. With the rotor
position sensed, three bit codes of Hall sensed signal is
obtained as shown in TABLE I. Each code value
specifies the rotor position and the corresponding
stator windings that are to be energized. Ha, Hb, Hc
signals are high or low depending whether the sensor
is near the N or S pole of the rotor magnets.
Depending on these signals the switches Q1 - Q6 are
ON/OFF. From TABLE I it is seen that when HC is
high, the switch Q4-Q5 conducts energizing the
corresponding stator windings are energized. Digital
PWM signals are generated and Speed regulation is
achieved by using high and low level duty cycles.
B. Fuzzy Logic Controller
The speed control of BLDC drive can be simulated
using the fuzzy logic controller. The Fuzzy logic
system plays a central role in the controlling of linear
Fig.1. Bldc Motor Transverse Section with Hall Sensors
Simulation Of Speed Control Of Brushless Dc Motor, With Fuzzy Logic Controller

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systems and in industrial applications where the

control and automation plays a vital role. The fuzzy
logic control is designed using the fuzzy inference
systems with the definition of input and output
membership functions. The fuzzy sets and rules are
designed and accordingly the drive can be controlled.
With the usage of single antecedent fuzzy rule the
intersection of fuzzy rule problem can be eliminated.
With the fuzzy rules designed the desired control can
be achieved.
The complete drive system can be modeled with
MATLAB/Simulink tool by categorizing the model
into BLDC motor, switching circuit/Inverter topology,
PWM driver circuit and the Controller circuit. The
Fuzzy combined controllers can also be used if there
exists a need to combine all local fuzzy controllers that
minimizes the chattering effects and the stability is
improved. Fuzzy rule bases are determined by the
Fuzzy clustering methods (FCM) to obtain the
membership functions that are utilized in the design of
fuzzy rules for the generation of PWM pulses.
This paper describes the speed control of the BLDC
motor drive designed with fuzzy logic controller that
is simulated and the dynamic characteristics are
obtained and analyzed using the MATLAB/Simulink
Tool. This paper is organized as follows. Section II
describes the mathematical model. Section III
describes the Fuzzy sets and rules evaluation for Speed
control of BLDC motor. Section IV describes the
MATLAB/Simulink model. Section V provides the
results of the Simulink model and its outputs are
analyzed. Section VI concludes the system with the
future prospects of the design.
II.
a=
Rb =Rc=R
(4)
aa=Lbb =Lcc=Ls
(5)
ba=Lab =Lca=Lac=Lbc=Lcb=M
(6)
(7)
Since a+ib+ic=0, and with (Ls M) = L, we have
=
+
+
(8)
R: Stator Resistance per phase assumed to be equal for
all phases.
Ls: Stator inductance per phase assumed to be equal
for all phases.
M: Mutual inductance between the phases.
ia,, ib, ic - Stator current /phase.
The instantaneous induced EMFs can be written as in
equation (9)-(11)
a=fa
r)pm
(9)
b=fb
r)pm
(10)
=f
)
c c
r p m
(11)
Where m, is the rotor mechanical speed and r is the
rotor electrical position.
With the rotor position being sensed the three phase
switching sequence can be illustrated using Fig.2.
MODEL DESCRIPTION
A. Mathematical Model of BLDC Motor Drive

In a brushless motor, the rotor incorporates the
magnets, and the stator contains the windings. As the
name suggests brushes are absent and hence in this
case, commutation is implemented electronically with
a drive amplifier that uses semiconductor switches to
change current in the windings based on rotor position
feedback. In this respect, the BLDC motor is
equivalent to a reversed DC commutator motor, in
which the magnet rotates while the conductors remain
stationary. Therefore, BLDC motors often incorporate
either internal or external position sensors to sense the
actual rotor .
The principle of operation and the dynamic model of
BLDC motor can be explained as follows. The circuit
equations of the stator windings in terms of electrical
constants is given by equations (1)-(8)
an =Raia+
aa ia+Lba
ib+Lca ic)+ea
(1)
bn = Rbib+
ab ia+Lbb ib+Lcb ic)+eb
(2)
cn = Rcic+
ac ia+Lbc ib+Lcc ic)+ec
(3)
Fig.2.Three Phase Switching Sequence
The switching instant of the individual transistor

switches, Q1-Q6 with respect to the trapezoidal EMF
wave is shown in the Fig.2.It is seen that the EMF
wave is synchronized with the rotor. So switching the
stator phases synchronously with the EMF wave make
the stator and rotor mmfs rotate in synchronism. Thus,
the inverter acts like an electronic commutator that
receives switching logical pulses from the rotor
position sensor. This is why a BLDC drive is also
commonly known as an electronically commutated
motor (ECM).
B. Fuzzy Logic Controller
In recent years, fuzzy control has emerged as a
practical alternative to classical control schemes when
one is interested in controlling certain time varying,
non-linear, and ill-defined processes. There have in
fact been several successful commercial and industrial

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applications of fuzzy control. Fuzzy controllers are

used to control consumer products, such as washing
machines, video cameras, and rice cookers, as well as
industrial processes, such as cement kilns,
underground trains, and robots. Fuzzy control is a
control method based on fuzzy logic. Fuzzy logic can
be described simply as computing with words rather
than numbers; fuzzy control can be described simply
as control with sentences rather than equations. A
fuzzy controller can include empirical rules, and that
is especially useful in operator controlled plants.
Fuzzy logic controller (FLC) is capable of improving
its performance in the control of a nonlinear system
whose dynamics are unknown or uncertain. Fuzzy
controller is able to improve its performance without
having to identify a model of the plant. Fuzzy control
is similar to the classic closed-loop control approaches
but differs in that it substitutes imprecise, symbolic
notions for precise numeric measures.
Fuzzy controllers are more robust because they can
cover a wide range of operating conditions. Fuzzy
controllers are more flexible and the modifications of
the Fuzzy rules are simpler when compared to the
conventional controllers. With these benefits Fuzzy
controllers can be utilized as industrial tool for control
applications.
The fuzzy controller takes input values from the real
world. These crisp input values are mapped to the
linguistic values through the membership functions in
the fuzzification step. A set of rules that emulates the
decision making process of the human expert
controlling the system is then applied using certain
inference mechanisms to determine the output.
Finally, the output is mapped into crisp control actions
required in practical applications in the
de-fuzzification step.
In a fuzzy controller the data passes through a
pre-processing block, a controller, and a
post-processing block. Pre-processing consists of a
linear or non-linear scaling. Linguistic variables are
central to fuzzy logic manipulations. They are
non-precise variables that often convey a surprising
amount of information. Usually, linguistic variables
hold values that are uniformly distributed () between
0 and 1, depending on the relevance of a context
dependent linguistic term.
The collection of rules is called a rules base and the
rules are in the familiar if-then format, and formally
the if-side is called the condition and the then-side is
called the conclusion. The computer is able to execute
the rules and compute a control signal depending on
the measured inputs error and change in error.
Therefore the rules reflect the strategy that the control
signal should be a combination of the reference error
and the change in error. Fuzzy inference is the process
of formulating the mapping from a given input to an
output using fuzzy logic.
The mapping then provides a basis from which
decisions can be made. The process of fuzzy inference

involves membership functions, fuzzy logic operators,
and if-then rules. There are two types of fuzzy
inference systems that can be implemented in the
fuzzy logic toolbox which are Mamdani-type and
TakagiSugeno (TS) type. The basic structure of a
Mamdani- type F.L.C as illustrated in fig.3 below
consists of the following components:
Fuzzification, which converts controller inputs into
information that the inference mechanism can easily
use to activate and apply rules.
Rule-Base, (a set of If-Then rules), which contains a
fuzzy logic quantification of the experts linguistic
description of how to achieve good control.
Inference Mechanism, (also called an inference
engine or fuzzy inference module), which emulates
the experts decision making in interpreting and
applying knowledge about how best to control the
system.
Defuzzification Interface, which converts the
conclusions of the inference mechanism into actual
inputs for the process.
Fig.3. Basic block diagram of flc
III. Fuzzy sets and rules evaluation- Speed control of

BLDC Motor drive
The basic block diagram of the speed control of BLDC
motor drive using Fuzzy logic controller is illustrated
in Fig.4.The error signal generated as the result of
variation in the reference speed and the actual speed of
the motor sensed by the hall signals is utilized for the
formulation of Fuzzy rules which results in the
generation of the PWM signals to drive the switching
circuit and with flexibility of fuzzy controllers wide
range of speed can be controlled using this Fuzzy
controller.
Fig.4.Block Diagram of Fuzzy Controlled Bldc Motor Drive

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To evaluate the disjunction of the rule antecedents the

OR fuzzy operation is used. Fuzzy expert systems
make use of the classical fuzzy operation union
expressed in equation(12),
(12)
A
B (x) = max( A
B (x) )
Similarly, in order to evaluate the conjunction of the
rule antecedents, the AND fuzzy operation is used and
the classical fuzzy operation intersection is given by
equation (13).
(13)
A
B (x) = min( A
B (x) )
The min-max compositional rule of inference is used.
There are several defuzzification methods, in this
design the centroid technique specified in Fig.7 is
utilized. It finds the point where a vertical line would
slice the aggregate set into two equal masses.
A. Steps in Fuzzy Decision algorithm:

Step1: The Fuzzy rules are designed and the rules that
are verified are invoked using the membership
functions and the truth values obtained.
Step2: The result is mapped to the membership
function and the variable to control the output
variable.
Step3: The final step is the defuzzification providing
the crisp output needed to control the system. The
combination of fuzzy operation and rule based
inference system provides a fuzzy expert system.
Fig.5.Flow Model Of Fuzzy Speed Reference Control
The fig.5 represents the flow model for fuzzy speed

reference control.
This Fuzzy flow model describes the conversion of all
crisp inputs of both the reference model and the model
to be controlled into the fuzzy inputs.
The purpose of the Model Reference Adaptive Fuzzy
Control (MRAFC) specified in Fig.5 is to change the
rules definition in the direct fuzzy logic controller
(FLC) and rule base table according to the comparison
between the reference model output signal and system
output. With MRAFC, good tracking characteristics
were obtained even under severe variations of system
parameters. The MRAFC observes the model outputs
and adjusts the rules in a direct fuzzy controller, so
that the overall system control capability is improved.
High performances and robustness have been achieved
by using the MRAFC.
Fig.7.Centroid Defuzzification Method
Mathematically this centre of gravity (COG) can be

expressed as:
=
(14)
Where denotes the algebraic sum, represents
centroid of each member ship function. Thus the
fuzzification, inference and defuzzification are
performed using equation (14).
Fig.8 represents the fuzzy inference system of the
designed fuzzy controller. Fuzzy inference system
contains the input signals and output signals that
provide the input membership functions and the
output membership functions.
B. Fuzzy Membership Functions:

The membership functions illustrated in Fig.6 used to
fuzzification two input values and defuzzification
output of the fuzzy controller. For seven clusters in the
membership functions, seven linguistic variables are
defined as: Negative Big (NB), Negative Medium
(NM), Negative Small (NS), Zero (Z), Positive Small
(PS), Positive Medium (PM), and Positive Big (PB).
Fig.8.Fis For Speed Control Of Bldc Motor
The hall signals senses the rotor position, with the

rotor position corresponding speed is detected. The
desired speed of the motor is known. The inference
engine specified (motor) in Fig.8contains the Fuzzy
Fig.6 Membership Function Of Flc

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rules that produces the corresponding PWM signals.

The input member ship function of the two inputs of
the system is represented in Fig. 9 and Fig. 10. The
Fuzzy system contains two input membership
functions, one is the hall signal and the other is the
speed signal. It contains PWM signals as one output
membership function.
The developed MATLAB model in Fig.12 provides

the speed control of BLDC Motor using Fuzzy logic
controller. The simulation results provide the
necessary waveforms for the analysis of speed control
of BLDC motor drives.
Fig.12.matlab/simulink model of bldc motor using fuzzy logic

controller.
Fig.9 input membership function of hall signal
The implemented Fuzzy rules provide the following

waveforms in the speed control of BLDC Motor drive.
IV.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The Hall sensor signals that is the signals with respect

to the rotor position of the BLDC motor are generated.
In reference to these Hall signals the PWM signals are
generated. The PWM signals generated provide the
control signals for the switching circuits that energize
the stator windings accordingly and the actual speed
of the motor is varied with respect to the reference
speed.
The reference speed of the BLDC motor is seen in the
oscilloscope as in Fig.15.
Fig. 10 input membership function of actual speed signal
The corresponding output membership functions of

the PWM signals are represented in the Fig.11
Ref Speed
3000
2500
Speed(rpm)
2000
1500
1000
500
0.02
0.04
0.06
0.08
0.1
0.12
Time(Sec)
0.14
0.16
0.18
0.2
Fig.15. Reference speed of bldc motor drive
The speed of the motor with Fuzzy logic controller is

seen as in Fig.16.
Fig.11 Output Memebership Function Of Pwm Signals
Ac tual Speed
3000
The Fuzzy Inference system is designed with the

Fuzzy rules specified in the Mamdani type of
FIS.With the designed fuzzy rules the PWM signals
are generated that provides the necessary gate signals
for the switchng of the Inverter bridge circuit that
energises the respective windings of the three phase
BLDC motor and hence the speed of the motor is
controlled as desired.
III.
2500
Speed(rpm)
2000
1500
1000
500
SIMULINK MODEL
0.02
0.04
0.06
0.08
0.1
0.12
Time(Sec)
0.14
0.16
0.18
Fig.16.Speed Of Bldc Motor Using Fuzzy Controller

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0.2
The results obtained shows that the actual speed is

approximately equal to the reference speed. Thus an
efficient speed control is achieved, for a BLDC Motor
using Fuzzy Logic Controller. The comparison curves
of the actual speed and reference speed obtained using
the simulation inspector tool is illustrated as in Fig.17
Comparison speed curves
3500
3000
Speed(rpm)
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0
0
0.02
0.04
0.06
0.08
0.1
0.12
Time(sec)
0.14
0.16
0.18
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REF.SPEED, ACTUAL SPEED

Fig.17.comparison of refernce and actual speed curves
With the graph obtained it is observed that the

efficiency of the designed Fuzzy Logic Controller is
calculated as 98.1% which proves to be efficient than
the conventional controllers.
CONCLUSION
In this paper the control scheme for the speed control
of BLDC motor using Fuzzy logic controller is
proposed. The significant advantages of the proposed
work are: (1) simplicity of control i.e. the fuzzy rule
base or Fuzzy set can be easily modified (2) Increased
robustness. The simulation of Fuzzy Logic controller,
using MATLAB to control the speed of flexible BLDC
Motor, proves that the desired speed is attained with a
shorter response time, when compared with
conventional controllers. The dynamic characteristics
of the motor is obtained and the analysis reveals that
Fuzzy controller is a highly controller and is capable
of controlling the motor drive over wide speed range.
The fuzzy controller proves to be more efficient than
the conventional controller. The simulated Fuzzy
control will be implemented, using dsPIC30F4013. A
prototype model will be developed to analyze
characteristics and the hardware results will be
compared with the results of conventional controllers.
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