Direct Torque Control of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) - an approach by using Space Vector Modulation (SVM)

This paper proposes a method of applying the Space Vector Modulation technique for Direct Torque Control (DTC) of a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drive. By this method it is preserved the principle of the conventional DTC regarding the decoupled torque and flux control, while providing more flexibility for the inverter voltage utilization, in order to compensate the torque and flux errors in a smoother way than conventional DTC. For this purpose, a reference voltage space vector is calculated every sample time, using a simple algorithm, based on the torque error and the stator flux angle. Numerical simulations have been made to test the proposed method and results are presented.