This thesis deals with the design and analysis of control system structures for electric drives equipped with permanent-magnet synchronous machines (PMSMs) in automotive applications. Sensorless control, meaning vector control without a mechanical rotor position sensor, is considered and a speed and position estimator of phase-locked loop type is analyzed thoroughly. Modifications are proposed ...

Induction motor with indirect field oriented control is preferred for high performance applications due to its excellent dynamic behavior. However, it is sensitive to variations in rotor time constant, especially variation in rotor resistance which needs to be estimated online. Conventionally the model reference adaptive system with fuzzy logic controllers as adaptation is used, which works sat...

In this paper, rotor bar Aluminum Loss of Squirrel Induction Motor running in steady state with full load is investigated. Multi-layered analytical model of rotor bar is employed to analyze the Aluminum loss generated by harmonic current. This model divides the rotor bar into a series of sub-layers with resistance remained constant in each sub-layer considering the skin effect. The bar loss in ...

In this paper, the classical Direct Torque Control (DTC) of Induction Motor (IM) using an open loop pure integration suffers from the well-known problems of integration especially in the low speed operation range is detailed. To tackle this problem, the IM variables and parameters estimation is performed using a recursive non-linear observer known as EKF. This observer is used to estimate the s...

Single-phase squirrel cage and three-phase induction electromotors are the most popular electromotors used in industry from long ago. When an induction motor starts with direct connection method, it takes a lot of current from the power supply (several times the nominal current); so, several methods have been devised to start such electromotors. These methods either reduce the voltage of the st...

In this paper, a fault tolerant control for induction motors based on backstepping strategy is designed. The proposed approach permits to compensate both the rotor resistance variations and the load torque disturbance. Moreover, to avoid the use of speed and flux sensors, a second order sliding mode observer is used to estimate the flux and the speed. The used observer converges in a finite tim...

Rotor and stator temperature are of concern in both shortterm machine protection and in longer term condition monitoring for large induction machines. Especially, when operating with overload cycles, it is necessary to monitor rotor bars and stator winding temperatures to make sure that the temperature remains below prescribed limits. The purpose of this paper is to present a thermal monitoring...

This paper presented a speed estimation and control strategy for induction motor drive based on an indirect field-oriented control. The rotor speed estimator based on a wavelet-neural-network utilized stator voltage and current measured values to calculate the rotor speed, and the control approach based on a sliding-mode controller with an integral sliding surface was proposed in order to regul...