The Control of PMSM Motor to Drive Propeller in Ship Propulsion System

Abstract

Electric propulsion has advantages such as high maneuverability, good safety and reliability, being able to operate optimally with a control system. It is a future green technology which is environmentally friendly. The application of electric propulsion for ship is that the propeller is driven by using electric motor by regulating speed and/or torque. in this research, an permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) is used to drive propeller of ship propulsion. The controller of proportional integral (PI) scheme is proposed to drive electric motor. The method of Ziegler Nichols stability margin tuning rule algorithm is performed to search the controller parameters. The optimal working point of propeller is determined by the cross intersection between the propeller loading curve to the coefficient of thrust curve of open water test propeller. The speed from the result of propeller working point analysis is set as control input reference. Based on the results of simulation, the proposed control of electric propulsion using PMSM motor is able to achieve the reference of speed.