Fault tolerant control to mechanical sensor failures for Induction Motor drive: A comparative study of voting algorithms

In this paper, we present a comparative study of four voting algorithms for two Induction Motor drive fault tolerant control to speed sensor failure schemes. In both Output and Input Fault Tolerant controller, the voting algorithm chooses the most appropriate output signal to ensure the best behavior in degraded mode. The performances are evaluated through simulations of a 7.5 kW Induction Motor drive with robustness testing against parametric variations, as well as under load testing. The results show that Euler, Newton-Raphson and Maximum Likelihood voting algorithms are more efficient than the Weighted Average in both Fault Tolerant Control schemes.