In the existing sensorless vector control system of permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM), direct differential calculation or phase-locked loop (PLL) control is often used to estimate the rotor speed, but this method has some problems of weak load capacity and slow dynamic response. A new sensorless vector control method based on an improved sliding mode observer (SMO) and improved fullorder observer (FOO) is proposed in this paper. The cut-off frequency of the low-pass filter is designed as a function of speed, the back EMF is fed back into the stator current estimation mathematical model, and the adaptive rate of feedback gains coefficient is proposed for improving the traditional SMO. The disturbance feedback matrix is introduced for improving the traditional FOO, and the estimated load torque is feedforward compensated to the given end of the quadrature current. An integrated system of corresponding algorithms is established, a test platform is built. The experimental results show that the speed and load torque estimation performance of the improved observer is better than that of the traditional observer in the process of sudden load change. The sensorless vector control system based on the proposed observer has a high dynamic response, load capacity, and reliability.INDEX TERMS Sensorless vector control system, improved sliding mode observer (SMO), improved fullorder observer (FOO), load capacity, reliability.