Drive control and position measurement of RailCab vehicles driven by linear motors

Andreas Pottharst; Christian Henke; Tobias Schneider; Joachim Böcker; Horst Grotstollen

doi:10.1117/12.718030

30 October 2006 Drive control and position measurement of RailCab vehicles driven by linear motors

Andreas Pottharst, Christian Henke, Tobias Schneider, Joachim Böcker, Horst Grotstollen

Proceedings Volume 6358, Sixth International Symposium on Instrumentation and Control Technology: Sensors, Automatic Measurement, Control, and Computer Simulation; 63582C (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.718030
Event: Sixth International Symposium on Instrumentation and Control Technology, 2006, Beijing, China

Abstract

The novel railway system RailCab makes use of autonomous vehicles which are driven by an AC linear motor. Depending on the track-side motor part, long-stator or short-stator operations are possible. The paper deals with the operation of the doubly-fed induction motor which is used for motion control and for transferring the energy required onboard the vehicle. This type of linear motor synchronization of the traveling fields generated by the stationary primary and moving secondary windings is an important and demanding task because the instantaneous positions of the vehicle or the primary traveling wave must be determined with high accuracy. The paper shows how this task is solved at the moment and what improvements are under development.

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Andreas Pottharst, Christian Henke, Tobias Schneider, Joachim Böcker, and Horst Grotstollen "Drive control and position measurement of RailCab vehicles driven by linear motors", Proc. SPIE 6358, Sixth International Symposium on Instrumentation and Control Technology: Sensors, Automatic Measurement, Control, and Computer Simulation, 63582C (30 October 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.718030

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