Sensorless Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Drive : A Review

Vector control has been widely used in control of permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSM) where the information of rotor position is required. Shaft position sensor such as an optical shaft position encoder or Hall Effect sensor is fitted to provide a signal that is used to maintain an appropriate space angle between the stator and rotor fields in the motor. Even though this method is very precise but the cost of mechanical sensors and the difficulty to incorporate them make it necessary to avoid their uses and to study the mechanical sensorless control. There are many methods which vary in principle and observer structure. The authors cover a wide range of topics related to the speed sensorless control of permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drives including their fundamental, limitations, present advances and future trends. In this paper conventional techniques are reviewed and recent developments in this area are introduced with their inherent advantages and drawbacks.

[1]  Hui Zhang,et al.  Study on Extend Kalman Filter at Low Speed in Sensorless PMSM Drives , 2009, 2009 International Conference on Electronic Computer Technology.

[2]  Maurizio Cirrincione,et al.  Sensorless Control of PMSM Fractional Horsepower Drives by Signal Injection and Neural Adaptive-Band Filtering , 2012, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

[3]  Somboon Sangwongwanich,et al.  Stability and Dynamic Performance Improvement of Adaptive Full-Order Observers for Sensorless PMSM Drive , 2012, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.

[4]  R. Krishnan,et al.  Electric Motor Drives: Modeling, Analysis, and Control , 2001 .

[5]  Paul P. Acarnley,et al.  Review of position-sensorless operation of brushless permanent-magnet machines , 2006, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

[6]  P. Sergeant,et al.  Losses in Sensorless Controlled Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Machines , 2010, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics.

[7]  Dawid Makiela.  Sensorless control of high-speed PM BLDC motor , 2011, 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics.

[8]  Ajith Abraham,et al.  A Hybrid Differential Artificial Bee Algorithm based tuning of fractional order controller for PMSM drive , 2011, 2011 Third World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing.

[9]  Roberto Leidhold.  Position Sensorless Control of PM Synchronous Motors Based on Zero-Sequence Carrier Injection , 2011, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

[10]  Krishnan,et al.  Electric Motor Drives , 2007 .

[11]  Frede Blaabjerg,et al.  Hybrid I-f Starting and Observer-Based Sensorless Control of Single-Phase BLDC-PM Motor Drives , 2012, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

[12]  M. Tursini,et al.  Sensorless control of five-phase brushless DC motors , 2010, 2010 First Symposium on Sensorless Control for Electrical Drives.

[13]  I. Husain,et al.  Position Sensorless Control of Non-Salient PMSM from Very Low Speed to High Speed for Low Cost Applications , 2007, 2007 IEEE Industry Applications Annual Meeting.

[14]  M. Ghribi,et al.  MRAS-based adaptive speed estimator in PMSM drives , 2006, 9th IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control, 2006..

[15]  Jung-Ik Ha,et al.  Sensorless drive of SMPM motor by high frequency signal injection , 2002, APEC. Seventeenth Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (Cat. No.02CH37335).

[16]  Yongdong Li,et al.  Comparison of signal injection methods for sensorless control of PMSM at very low speeds , 2007, 2007 European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications.

[17]  Mehrdad Ehsani,et al.  Position sensorless brushless DC motor/generator drives: review and future trends , 2007 .

[18]  Bhim Singh,et al.  State of the Art on Permanent Magnet Brushless DC Motor Drives , 2009 .

[19]  Peter Vas,et al.  Sensorless vector and direct torque control , 1998 .

[20]  I. Boldea,et al.  Control issues in adjustable speed drives , 2008, IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine.

[21]  M. Tursini,et al.  Observer-based sensorless control of a five-phase brushless DC motor , 2010, The XIX International Conference on Electrical Machines - ICEM 2010.

[22]  Damian Giaouris,et al.  Controlled AC Electrical Drives , 2008, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

[23]  J. Luomi,et al.  Sensorless control of surface magnet synchronous motors at low speeds using low-frequency signal injection , 2003, IECON'03. 29th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37468).

[24]  M. Ehsani,et al.  A novel position sensor elimination technique for the interior permanent-magnet synchronous motor drive , 1989, Conference Record of the IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting,.

[25]  M Marchesoni,et al.  Practical implementation of a sensorless field oriented PMSM drive with output AC filter , 2010, SPEEDAM 2010.

[26]  Zhao'an Wang,et al.  Speed and Position Sensorless Control for Dual-Three-Phase PMSM Drives , 2009, 2009 Twenty-Fourth Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition.

[27]  Li Yongdong,et al.  Sensorless control of permanent magnet synchronous motor — a survey , 2008, 2008 IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference.

[28]  Erik Schaltz,et al.  Sensorless Model Predictive Direct Current Control Using Novel Second-Order PLL Observer for PMSM Drive Systems , 2011, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

[29]  Peter Sergeant,et al.  Rotor Geometry Design of Interior PMSMs With and Without Flux Barriers for More Accurate Sensorless Control , 2012, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.