The purpose of this paper is to develop a robust sensorless control based on the sliding-mode observer applied to a doubly fed induction motor associated with two three-level NPC-type voltage inverters fed by PWM rectifier. In this context, the authors propose in the first part, and after the presentation of the model of three-level NPC-type voltage inverters, this type of inverter has several advantages over the standard two-level inverter, such as a greater number of levels in the output waveforms, give less harmonic distortion in voltage and current waveforms and lower switching frequencies. They also present the control strategy of three-phase pulse width modulation rectifier. They propose the virtual flux-based direct power control (DPC_VF) with vector modulation (SVM). This method is applied for the enhancement of network power quality by compensation of harmonic currents produced by a non-linear load, and good regulation of DC-bus voltage. The second part of the paper is dedicated to the presentation of the robust observer for sensorless speed control of doubly fed induction motor (DFIM), based on the sliding mode. Simulation results of this proposed system were analyzed using MATLAB environment.