In electric vehicle drive systems, high-speed switching of the inverter can induce common-mode (CM) current, shaft voltage, bearing voltage, and bearing current through parasitic coupling paths inside the motor. These phenomena are closely related...
In electric vehicle drive systems, high-speed switching of the inverter can induce common-mode (CM) current, shaft voltage, bearing voltage, and bearing current through parasitic coupling paths inside the motor. These phenomena are closely related to electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) issues in electrified propulsion systems. To analyze such high-frequency phenomena, a broadband model that considers not only the three-phase winding terminals of the motor but also the shaft- and bearing-related paths is required. However, conventional high-frequency motor models are often constructed based on specific impedance characteristics or specific responses, which limits their ability to directly represent broadband port-to-port coupling characteristics between the winding terminals and the shaft terminals.
In this thesis, a five-port S-parameter-based macromodeling method is proposed to represent the high-frequency coupling characteristics between the winding terminals and the shaft terminals of a motor based on measurement data and to utilize the model for time-domain analysis. For this purpose, a five-port network was defined, including the three-phase winding terminals U, V, and W, and the drive-end (DE) and non-drive-end (NDE) shaft terminals of an induction motor. Considering the measurement environment in which the complete five-port S-parameters cannot be directly measured using a two-port network analyzer, partial two-port S-parameter measurements were performed for multiple port combinations. The unmeasured ports were terminated with auxiliary loads, and an S-parameter matrix renormalization technique was applied to account for the frequency-dependent impedance characteristics of the auxiliary loads.
Through the renormalization process, a five-port S-parameter matrix including the coupling characteristics among the three-phase windings and shaft terminals was obtained. The extracted five-port S-parameters were converted into a macromodel using rational approximation based on the AAA algorithm for application to time-domain circuit simulation. The measured frequency responses were represented as a sum of poles and residues, and a SPICE netlist macromodel was generated through passivity verification and enforcement. Frequency-domain comparison results showed that the macromodel generally reproduced the five-port S-parameter responses obtained through renormalization.
To verify the validity of the model in the time domain, input conditions were selected based on the comparison of the BVR frequency responses, and the measured common-mode input voltage waveforms were applied to the macromodel to calculate the bearing voltage response. Comparison between the measured and simulated waveforms showed that although some differences existed in the magnitude of the bearing voltage, the main waveform shape and temporal variation trend were generally similar. These results confirm that the proposed five-port S-parameter-based macromodel can be utilized to reproduce the time-domain bearing voltage response according to the input voltage.