This paper describes direct torque control (DTC) of a permanent magnet synchronous machine (PMSM) powered by a two-level voltage inverter whose switching of switches is based on the Space Vector Modulation. To overcome the robustness of the control to the presence of a fault, we included an improvement of the direct torque control with Space vector modulation (DTC-SVM) by the use of the filters for the flux and the torque and compared to the direct torque control of the DTC-SVM, the PI controllers are replaced with sliding mode blocks, This control method allows giving a new structure DTC -SVM with sliding mode control. The analysis of the results shows good performances for the speed and a considerable reduction of the fluctuations at the level of the torque and the flux.