A sensorless method for controlling the closure of a contactor

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3896-3903

  Espinosa, Antonio Garcia ^a   Ruiz, Jordi Roger Riba ^a   Morera, Xavier Alabern ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Closed loop; Closing control; Contact bounce; Contactor; Fuzzy logic; Sensorless control

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; FUZZY CONTROL; FUZZY LOGIC; SENSORS;

CLOSED LOOP; CLOSING CONTROL; CONTACT BOUNCE; FUZZY CONTROLLER; SENSORLESS CONTROL;

ELECTRIC CONTACTORS;

EID: 34648844181     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.904355     Document Type: Article

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