Sensorless Control of IPMSM for Last 10 Years and Next 5 Years

This paper presents the developments of sensorless control of interior permanent magnet synchronous machine(IPMSM)for last 10 years,which could be divided into the past and the present for each 5 years.Several popular methods developed for last 10 years would be described and evaluated,and the limitations with the methods are discussed.In the past a concept extended EMF(EEMF)was introduced and it can model IPMSM as a non-salient motor,meaning that the representation of IPMSM in the estimated rotor reference frame would be much simpler and accurate.However,because it still relied on back EMF,standstill operation was impossible.And,the position control of IPMSM could not be achieved with EEMF concept.For sensorless drive,the high-frequency signal injection method exploiting inherent saliency of IPMSM has been continuously developed for last 10 years and applied to various industry fields,where torque control at standstill is essential.Its performance has been improved but there are still many problems to be solved.In the present,the square-wave signal injection at estimated d-axis has improved the control performance conspicuously.However,there are strong demands to improve the control performance of sensorless drive,yet.Based on the problems in the present,in this paper the possible developments of sensorless drive of IPMSM in next 5 years are enlightened as the future of sensorless control.

An MRAS method for sensorless control of induction motor over a wide speed range

This paper addresses the problem of wide speed range sensorless control of induction motor.The proposed method is based on model reference adaptive system (MRAS),in which the current model serves as the adjustable model,and a novel hybrid model integrating the modified voltage model (MVM) and high-frequency signal injection method (HFSIM) are established to serve as the reference model.The HFSIM works together with MVM to improve the performance of the rotor speed and rotor flux position estimation at low speed,whereas at high speed,the MVM acts alone.In addition,a rotor resistance online estimation scheme is proposed to update the rotor resistance contained in the adjustable model and to ensure the estimation accuracy further.Experimental results show that the proposed MRAS method is very effective from low to high speed range,including zero speed.

Sensorless Control of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor in Full Speed Range

Aiming at resolving the limitation of the speed regulation range of sensorless control technology,a new composite sensorless control strategy is proposed to realize a control method for a permanent magnet synchronous motor(PMSM)in full speed range.In the medium-and high-speed range,the improved new sliding mode observer method is used to estimate the motor speed and rotor position information.In the zero and low speed range,in order to avoid the defects of the sliding mode method,the rotating high-frequency voltage signal injection method is used.When switching between low,medium,and high speed,the fuzzy control algorithm is adopted to achieve smooth transitions.The simulation experiment results show that the hybrid mode combining the sliding mode observer and rotating high-frequency voltage injection methods,can effectively reduce the jitter in the algorithm switching process,and realize the smooth control of a PMSM in full speed range.