Integrated design of speed-sensorless and adaptive speed controller for a brushless DC motor

The study develops a design of an integrated new speed-sensorless approach that involves a torque observer and an adaptive speed controller for a brushless dc motor (BLDCM). The system is based on the vector control drive strategy. The speed-sensorless approach first employs a load observer to estimate the disturbed load torque, and then the estimated load torque is substituted into the mechanical dynamic equation to determine the rotor speed, and thus develop a speed-sensorless algorithm. Additionally, the mechanical rotor inertia constant and the friction coefficient, which are the inputs of the load observer, are estimated using the recursive least-square rule. Therefore, the proposed speed-sensorless approach is unaffected by the time-variant motor parameters nor is affected by the integrator drift problem. It also has a simpler computing algorithm than the extended Kalman filter for estimating the speed. The modified model reference adaptive system algorithm, an adaptive control algorithm, is adopted as a speed controller of the BLDCM to improve the performance of the speed-sensorless approach. Simulation and experimental results confirm that the performance of the design of a new integrated speed-sensorless approach and the adaptive speed controller is good.

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