In the paper the principle and performances of the pulsating current injection based sensorless control of permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) are analyzed theoretically and investigated by simulations. In the analyses, the effects of the speed EMF terms and the deviation between the actual d-axis high-frequency current and the command, which results from the limited gain and bandwidth of...

Novel induction motor speed sensorless torque control optimizing both torque response and efficiency is proposed. The control is quite different than the conventional field-oriented or direct torque control [1]. First, the produced torque is explicitly continuous output variable of control. Second, a new rotor flux observer, which allows speed sensorless operation of IM by low and zero speed, w...

Electric power steering systems are a quite common equipment of modern vehicles. They are based on torque controlled electromechanical actuators assisting the driver in moving the steering wheel. These systems must generate low torque fluctuations and mechanical vibrations, while featuring a low cost and a simple and rugged control system. In order to comply with these requirements an electrome...

Abstract. This paper addresses the problem of controlling wind energy conversion (WEC) systems involving permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) fed by IGBT-based buck-to-buck rectifier-inverter. The prime control objective is to maximize wind energy extraction which cannot be achieved without letting the wind turbine rotor operate in variable-speed mode. Interestingly, the present study ...

Brushless DC (BLDC) motor drives are becoming more popular in industrial, traction applications. This makes the control of BLDC motor in all the four quadrants very vitalThe motor is operated in four steady state operating modes of torque-speed plane. To control a BLDC machine it is generally required to measure the speed and position of rotor by using the sensor because the inverter phases, ac...

This thesis deals with flux estimators for speed-sensorless induction motor drives. To enhance the stability and the performance of state-of-the-art sensorless drives, new flux estimator designs based on the standard motor model are proposed. Theoretical and experimental research methods are both used. The dynamics and stability of flux estimators are analyzed using linearized models, and the e...

This paper proposes a back electromotive force estimation error compensation method for accurate rotor position estimation of surface mounted permanent magnet synchronous motors. When estimating the rotor position of surface mounted permanent magnet synchronous motor sensorless drives, a direct current offset error component occurs in the voltage sensor. As a result, the rotor position is disto...

In this paper, a sensorless speed control for linear induction motors (LIMs) is developed based on fuzzy observer design. First, the LIMs is represented by a Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy model. Next, the fuzzy observer is constructed to estimate the immeasurable states of mover speed and secondary flux, where the observer gains are obtained by solving a set of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). To...

This paper presents a speed estimation method using neural networks (NN) in a vector controlled (VC) induction motor drive. The estimation algorithm is implemented using a Jordan recurrent NN structure where training of the NN is done online using back-propagation algorithm. Two back emf models are used in order to realize the reference and the adaptive models from which depending upon the spee...

This short paper deals with the transition performance improvement of a sensor faulttolerant controller devoted to automotive applications. Indeed, improvements are brought over a previously developed technique that exhibit abrupt changes in the torque if a sensor fault is detected and after a transition from a control technique to another one [1]. The Fault-Tolerant Control (FTC) system firstl...