Sensorless Control of a Fault-tolerant Multi-level PMSM Drive

Saleh, Kamel; Sumner, Mark

Authors

Kamel Saleh

MARK SUMNER mark.sumner@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Electrical Energy Systems

Abstract

This paper presents a new technique to track the saliency position in a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) post a single phase open-circuit fault. The PMSM is driven by a fault-tolerant multi-level inverter that is utilized to implement a fault-tolerant control strategy to minimize system performance degradation post the fault.The fault-tolerant multi-level inverter is consisting of a number of insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs). The dynamic current reponses of the PMSM motor due to the switching actions of these IGBTs are used extract the saliency position. This process is not introducing any modification to the operation of the fault-tolerant multil-level inverter as it uses only the fundamental pulse width modulation (PWM) waveform. Moreover,it considers the modifications introduced to the PMSM motor and the multi-level inverter post the fault.Simulation results are provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed strategy of saliency tracking of a PMSM motor driven by a fault-tolerant four-leg multi-level inverter over a wide range of speeds in the case of a single-phase open circuit fault.

Citation

Saleh, K., & Sumner, M. (2018). Sensorless Control of a Fault-tolerant Multi-level PMSM Drive. TELKOMNIKA (Telecommunication, Computing, Electronics and Control), 16(6), 2930-2942

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Oct 28, 2018
Publication Date	2018-12
Deposit Date	Mar 25, 2019
Publicly Available Date	Mar 25, 2019
Journal	TELKOMNIKA
Print ISSN	1693-6930
Electronic ISSN	2302-9293
Publisher	Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	16
Issue	6
Pages	2930-2942
Keywords	four-leg multi-level inverter; sensorless; single-phase open circuit; space vector pulse width modulation
Public URL	https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1682481
Publisher URL	http://journal.uad.ac.id/index.php/TELKOMNIKA/article/view/9647