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appears that this is very much related to the concept of “phase advance” in ECM motors but an<br />

investigation of the subject is beyond scope. Articles on field weakening show plots with many<br />

circles, ellipses, and hyperbolas indicating various limits. Understanding field weakening and/or<br />

current advancing would require a separate study. References that look to contain good<br />

information are [78, ch.9], [109], [110], [111], [112], [113], [114], [115], [116].<br />

Synchronous Current Regulation<br />

The FOC control structure has been developed by building upon the understanding of torque<br />

control (via phasing) because it is the most intuitive way to gain an understanding of how a space<br />

vector is regulated in the rotor frame. However, aside from the “motor control” aspect<br />

(determining the angle of i in accordance torque and field weakening) it is clear that the control<br />

structure is accomplishing current regulation in the rotor reference frame. Further, the same<br />

structure could be used to control any three-phase currents relative to some general reference<br />

frame (other than the rotor), such as the reference frame attached to a voltage space vector<br />

representing a bus on the grid. Whether it is the rotor frame in a synchronous motor, a grid<br />

voltage frame, or the reference frame of the magnetizing flux linkage in an induction motor, they<br />

will all be turning at the synchronous frequency as seen from the stationary frame (in the steady<br />

state). The idea of controlling a space vector in such a frame has come to be called synchronous<br />

frame regulation, or simply synchronous regulation. 41 The concept had been introduced<br />

previously by Schauder and Caddy [153] but it seems that Rowan and Kerkman were the ones<br />

who developed the concept in their widely-cited paper [154].<br />

The main advantage of the synchronous regulator is that the compensators are in the synchronous<br />

frame. This removes them from the cyclic variation of the input error signal in order to prevent<br />

the increasing phase lag and magnitude droop that occurs with increasing frequency. In addition,<br />

the structure allows the bEMF to be offset and the decoupling of the motor’s d- and q- circuits to<br />

be accomplished more easily [107]. In the first subsection the stationary and synchronous<br />

41 The terminology can be a bit confusing at times because the “synchronous” frame of an induction motor<br />

deals with the rotating excitation provided by the stator while the rotor slips by at an asynchronous speed.<br />

Therefore, various names could be used to refer to the “synchronous regulator” and its coordinates<br />

depending on the situation. Examples include: dq-, synchronous-, rotor-, or excitation- frames/coordinates.<br />

In other words, the rotor reference frame is a synchronous frame in a synchronous motor but it is not a<br />

synchronous frame in the induction motor (but the excitation frame is a synchronous frame).<br />

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