This paper describes the study and experimental verification of sensorless control of permanent magnet synchronous motors with a high precision drive using two novel estimation methods. All the studies of the modified Luenberger observer, reference model, and unscented Kalman filter are presented with algorithm details. The main part determines trials with a full range of reference speeds with a special near-zero speed area taken into account. In order to compare the estimation performances of the observers, both are designed for the same motor and control system and run in the same environment. The experimental results indicate that the presented methods are capable of tracking the actual values of speed and motor position with small deviation, sufficient for precise control.

If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation.Abstract This paper deals with the problem of rotor speed and position detection in sensorless permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drives. A concept based on detecting the back EMF induced in stator windings was developed and modified. A general structure of an adaptive observer with the proportional-integral function of a corrector is introduced. The non-stationary character of the observer presented in this paper requires an adaptive change of observer corrector settings. Such observer structure was implemented on a DSP system and verified experimentally. Both simulation and experimental results show good properties of the proposed observer structure.

PurposeThe aim of the paper is to find a simple structure of speed controller robust against drive parameters variations. Application of artificial neural network (ANN) in the controller of PI type creates proper non‐linear characteristics, which ensures controller robustness.Design/methodology/approachThe robustness of the controller is based on its non‐linear characteristic introduced by ANN. The paper proposes a novel approach to neural controller synthesis to be performed in two stages. The first stage consists in training the ANN to form the proper shape of the control surface, which represents the non‐linear characteristic of the controller. At the second stage, the PI controller settings are adjusted by means of the random weight change (RWC) procedure, which optimises the control quality index formulated in the paper. The synthesis is performed using simulation techniques and subsequently the behaviour of a laboratory speed control system is validated in the experimental set‐up. The control algorithms of the system are performed by a microprocessor floating point DSP control system.FindingsThe proposed controller structure with proper control surface created by ANN guarantees expected robustness.Originality/valueThe original method of robust controller synthesis was proposed and validated by simulation and experimental investigations.

Original scientific paperThe paper presents results of studies on the position estimation for the permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drive using gain scheduling technique for tuning the observer's parameters. It allows a good estimation accuracy in wide range of working point change. Such observer with multi integral correction function improves the performance, but need to modify its parameters according to its speed and load.Novelty is the use of a two-dimensional gain scheduling technique and the use in the sensorless drive, where traditional solution is simple one-input scheduling variable -mainly on drives with position sensors. The look-up table output is processed using bilinear interpolation. Position observer is based on back EMF estimation. It uses predefined reference matrices of parameters, which are interpolated and depend on drive's operating point.Key words: Observers, PMSM, Scheduling, Sensorless control, Variable speed drives Unaprijeđena metoda estimacije položaja zasnovana na upotrebi dvodimenzionalnog polja za ažuriranje parametara. U radu su predstavljeni rezultati studija vezanih za estimaciju položaja sinkronog motora s permanentnim magnetima (PMSM) uz korištenje regulatora s podesivim pojačanjem za adaptaciju parametara estimatora. Metoda pokazuje dobru točnost estimacije u širokom rasponu radnog područja. Ovakav estimator s više integracijskih korekcijskih funkcija poboljšava performanse, ali i zahtijeva adaptaciju parametara ovisno o brzini i teretu.Novost predstavlja korištenje dvodimenzionalnog podešavanja pojačanja regulatora te primjena u bezsenzorskom upravljanju elektromotornim pogonom, gdje se tradicionalno koristi jednostavno ažuriranje jedne varijable -prije svega kod elektromotornih pogona sa senzorom za poziciju. Pregledna tablica izlaza koristi se uz bilinearnu interpolaciju. Estimator položaja zasnovan je na estimaciji protuelektromotorne sile. Estimator koristi unaprijed određene referentne matrice parametara koje se interpoliraju te ovise o radnoj točki.Ključne riječi: Estimatori, PMSM, ažuriranje parametara, bezsenzorsko upravljanje, elektromotorni pogon promjenjive brzine INTRODUCTIONThe Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) is very often used type of motor in industrial applications. Its the most significant advantages are high power density, high torque-to-inertia ratio and small torque ripples. Such drive gives possibility to precise speed and position control at low speed range, a torque control at zero speed and has compact size. A typical control structure of PMSM drive bases on vector control method. It allows to get a good dynamics, effective performance especially during transient processes and prevents overload of the motor by controlling the torque. However, a motor shaft position sensor is required to enable the effective control of the drive. Reliable operation without sensor is still a subject of investigations. The actual investigations are mainly focused on: zero speed range [1][2][3][4], high dynamic performance [5,6], motor supplied through ...

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