Design and Research of GaN - Based Motor Drive System with LC Output Filter

This paper presents a gallium nitride (GaN) - based servo motor drive system. Compared to actual inverters based on insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs), the proposed design extends the pulse width modulation (PWM) frequency to 100 kHz. This allows motor filters with small component sizes. Based on this, an LC filter is added to the motor drive system, and an undamped resonance suppression algorithm is proposed to suppress the resonance introduced by the filter. By adding a proper time delay, system can be stable without any additional sensors or power losses. As a result, ideal sinusoidal line-line voltage at the motor terminals, high motor efficiency and low switching noise are achieved.