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Brushless DC motor (BLDCM) is a synchronous motor that contains a permanent magnet on the rotor and armature windings on the stator. It consists of the following characteristics, such as compact form, high efficient, silent operations and low maintenance. The existing BLDCM control systems have some drawbacks such as, it needs higher requirements for control algorithms, it uses more complicated electronics, it holds high noise and the initial rotor movement is not predictable. In order to overcome these issues, a new control mechanism, namely, carrier frequency rate, duty cycle ratio and pulse position range-space vector pulse width modulation (RRR-SVPWM) technique is proposed in this paper to control the speed of BLDCM. Initially, the unregulated AC from the wind turbine system is given to the input of six-legs insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) circuit for converting the unregulated AC to regulated DC. Here, the pulse generator is used to generate the pulses based on certain parameters, such as input three-phase voltage, phase current and DC voltage. Hence, the proposed RRR-SVPWM technique is applied to reduce the noise and maintain a harmonics in a controlled level by placing a high-speed switches in a circuit. Finally, the speed of the BLDCM is increased and controlled by giving an output regulated AC to the motor. The experimental results evaluate the performance of the proposed system in terms of power factor (PF), displacement PF (DPF) and total harmonic distortion (THD). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]