The parameters of permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) affect the performance of vector control servo system. Because of the complexity of nonlinear model of PMSM, it is very difficult to identify the parameters of PMSM. Aiming at the problems of large amount of data calculation, low identification accuracy and poor robustness in the process of multi parameter identification of permanent magnet synchronous motor, this paper proposes a weighted differential evolutionary particle swarm optimization algorithm based on double update strategy. By introducing adaptive judgment factor to control the proportion of weighted difference evolution (WDE) algorithm and particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm in each iteration process, and consider using PSO algorithm or WDE algorithm to update individuals according to the probability law. The individuals obtained from WDE operation are used to guide the individual evolution process in PSO operation through the information exchange mechanism. The proposed WDEPSO algorithm can ensure the diversity and effectiveness of the individual evolution of the population. The algorithm is applied to parameter identification of PMSM drive system. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm has better convergence performance and has strong robustness, parameter identification of permanent magnet synchronous motor based on proposed method does not need to rely on more data sheet on the motor design value, can motor stator resistance identification at the same time, the rotor flux linkage, d/q-axis inductance and electrical parameters, and can effectively track the parameters value.