Adaptive on-line flux estimation in field-oriented control of an IM

An adaptive technique for the online estimation of the rotor field vector to use as a feedback for the field-oriented control of an induction machine (IM) is described. This method makes use of the stator voltage and rotor speed measurements. It uses the least square estimation technique for identifying the machine parameters to be used in the estimation of the field vector. The position and magnitude of the flux vector are identified during the normal operation of the machine by applying some special constraints to the forcing function. This constraint is applied only for a short duration to make some measurements, and the machine performance is not affected. Extensive simulation of the system has been carried out, and the results are presented