Research on the lightweight issue of DC-link is an important direction in modern AC drive electric locomotive. Canceling LC filter circuit is an important way to achieve the goal of lightweight. Therefore, this paper focuses on single-phase pulse rectifier without LC filter circuit. The generation mechanism of DC voltage ripple and network-side current harmonics in grid-side converter is derived. Then, aiming to eliminate the current harmonics, the N-order notch filter and PR controller are introduced to the double-loops controller. The loop of voltage outer controller with N-order notch filter can filter out the ripple of DC-side voltage effectively without affecting the dynamic performance of the controller system. Meanwhile, the loop of current inner controller with PR controller can achieve zero steady-state error control to both the fundamental and harmonic current, and can suppress the low order harmonics in the line current effectively. Analysis shows that replacing the original L2C2 filter circuit with software controller is feasible. Finally, the validity and effectiveness of the proposed scheme are verified in computer simulation.

Due to IGBT open-circuit fault of CRH2 EMU’s traction inverter, a method of its fault diagnosis with the three-phase current signals as detection objects is conducted. By applying the wavelet analysis, three-phase current signals are decomposed for four times. With the coefficients of each layer obtained, the energy values of layers are calculated as well as the vectors corresponding to failure modes. According to the vectors regarded as input and the expected output, a BP neural network is established. Through training the network, the parameters of network can be defined. In addition, to test and evaluate the performance of network, certain noise is added to the three-phase current signals. Simulation results show it is feasible for the fault diagnosis of traction inverter.

The calculation model of motor operating on asymmetric rotor was defined taking a traction squirrel-cage induction motor in Electric Multiple Units (EMU) as sample. Based on the basic principle of numerical analysis, magnetic field in the motor and current in the bar were calculated for both normal motor and broken-bar motor by using the Jmag software, and both the magnetic field variation and current variation in the bar were summed up. According to the EMU’s special control methods, the motor with two broken bars was simulated at different work point, and the characteristic component variation was presented. The works in this paper lay the foundation of diagnosis method for broken rotor bar fault, especially for traction motor in EMU.