Improved Speed Control of DC Compound Motor with Fuzzy Logic Control-Based Virtual Inertia Injection

Speed control and stability are the most important factors in the working of every motor. Several controlling strategies improve motor stability and increase efficiency. Some of the conventional control methods, which have disadvantages, make uncontrollable situations occur in the DC compound motor. The implementation of modern improvised techniques can fill those gaps of disadvantages occurred by conventional control methods. This paper explains how the proposed control mechanism can effectively control the speed of a DC compound motor, by using the concept of virtual inertia injection. Through this concept, the speed of the DC compound motor is going to be controlled by virtually injecting the inertia through the proposed controller design made using one of the artificial intelligence techniques called the fuzzy logic method. The proposed control technique is compared with conventional techniques, and conclusions are drawn based on the results acquired in the simulation. The whole simulation is done using MATLAB-Simulink®.