Improved INFORM method by minimizing the inverter nonlinear voltage error effects

Author

Ge Xie ; Kaiyuan Lu ; Dwivedi, Sanjeet Kumar ; Rosholm, Jesper Riber

Author_Institution

Dept. of Energy Technol., Aalborg Univ., Aalborg, Denmark

fYear

2015

Firstpage

188

Lastpage

194

Abstract

The INFORM (Indirect Flux detection by Online Reactance Measurements) method is regularly used for estimating the rotor position in PMSM sensorless drive systems at low speed and standstill. However, the estimation accuracy of the rotor position highly depends on how accurately the desired injection voltage vector may be produced. In this paper, a new method for generating the desired injection voltage vector is proposed. The nonlinear voltage error will be limited to one phase only, allowing an easy compensation. The performance of the INFORM method with the proposed voltage injection method is demonstrated experimentally. Comparison to the traditional voltage vector generation method is given as well.

Keywords

invertors; permanent magnet motors; sensorless machine control; synchronous motor drives; INFORM method; PMSM sensorless drive systems; indirect flux detection by online reactance measurement method; injection voltage vector; inverter nonlinear voltage error effects minimization; nonlinear voltage error; rotor position estimation; voltage vector generation method; Estimation; Inverters; Rotors; Space vector pulse width modulation; Stators; Voltage control; Voltage measurement; INFORM; PMSM; Sensorless control; inverter voltage error; low speed;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Machines Design, Control and Diagnosis (WEMDCD), 2015 IEEE Workshop on

Conference_Location

Torino

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WEMDCD.2015.7194528

Filename

7194528