Speed sensorless IM control system based on MRAS and NN flux observers

Many electronic drivers for the induction motor control are based on sensorless technologies. This paper proposes a novel hybrid motion sensorless control system to solve the low speed problems using MRAS and NN estimation scheme which is based on rotor flux. A multilayer feedforward artificial neural network is proposed for rotor flux estimation which is more robust to noise and stator resistance variation and does not have dc-drift problems which are usually associated with these adaptive schemes. A comparison between the performance of the neural network based strategy and conventional scheme is carried out. Simulation results are also presented to validate the proposed approach.

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