Multiphase rotor current observers for current predictive control: A five-phase case study

Abstract The use of multiphase drives has gained importance in recent times due to some advantages that they provide over conventional three-phase ones. High performance stator current control can be achieved by means of direct command of voltage source inverter. In this context finite-state model predictive control is a very flexible strategy that has been recently proposed and analyzed. Nevertheless, its implementation must solve the problem of estimating rotor quantities, being the conventional solution a simple backtracking procedure. In this respect, observers appear as an attractive alternative. However, while they have been used with FOC, sensorless drives and for fault detection, they have not been used yet for predictive control of drives as a way to provide rotor values estimates. In this paper the authors propose to incorporate a full-order rotor current observer in a finite-state model predictive controller of a five-phase induction machine. Pole placement design based on Butterworth filters is used. The new estimation scheme and the standard procedure are compared. By means of experimental tests, the differences between both approaches and the benefits of including a rotor observer are illustrated and verified.

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