Chinese Journal of Electrical Engineering ›› 2017, Vol. 3 ›› Issue (2): 14-23.

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Saliency-Based Position Sensorless Control Methods for PMSM Drives - a Review

Guoqiang Zhang, Gaolin Wang*, Dianguo Xu   

  1. College of Electrical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
  • Online:2017-09-25 Published:2019-10-31
  • Contact: E-mail: wgl818@hit.edu.cn
  • About author:Guoqiang Zhang received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China, in 2011, and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2013, where he is currently working toward Ph.D. degree in Power Electronics and Electrical Drives. His current research interests include parameter identification technique, and control of electrical drives, with main focus on sensorless field-oriented control of interior permanent magnet synchronous machines. Gaolin Wang (M’13) received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D.degrees in Electrical Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2002, 2004 and 2008, respectively. In 2009, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology as a Lecturer, where he has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering since 2014. From 2009 to 2012, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Shanghai STEP Electric Corporation. He has authored more than 80 technical papers published in journals and conference proceedings. He is the holder of ten Chinese patents. His current major research interests include permanent magnet synchronous motor drives, high performance direct-drive for traction system, position sensor-less control of AC motors and efficiency optimization control of interior PMSM. Dr. Wang serves as an Associate Editor of IET Electric Power Applications, Journal of Power Electronics, and CES Transactions on Electrical Machines and System. He received the Outstanding Research Award and the Delta Young Scholar Award from the Delta Environmental and Educational Foundation in 2012 and 2014, respectively. He is currently supported by the National Natural Science of China for Excellent Young Scholars. DianguoXu(M’97-SM’12-F’16) received the B.S. degree in Control Engineering from Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China, in 1982, and the M.S. and Ph.D.degrees in Electrical Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin, China, in 1984 and 1989, respectively. In 1984, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, HIT as an assistant professor. Since 1994, he has been a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, HIT. He was the Dean of School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, HIT from 2000 to 2010. He is now the vice president of HIT. His research interests include renewable energy generation technology, power quality mitigation, sensor-less vector controlled motor drives, high performance servo system. He published over 600 technical papers. Dr. Xu is a senior member of IEEE, a Deputy Editors-in-Chief of the CES Transactions on Electrical Machines and System, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, and the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. He serves as Chairman of IEEE Harbin Section.
  • Supported by:
    Supported by the Research Fund for National Science Foundation of China (51522701), grants from Power Electronics Science and Education Development Program of Delta Environmental & Educational Foundation (DREK2015002), National Key Research and Development Program (2016YFE0102800).

Abstract: Permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drives are finding expanded use for industrial and domestic drive applications. With the distinguished characteristics such as reduced cost and increased reliability and robustness, position sensorless (self-sensing) control techniques have been good candidates for reliable and costless PMSM drives. The saliency-tracking based techniques further bring the expansion of applications with the extended controllable sensorless operating speed range. This paper presents a review on state of the art techniques for position sensorless drives using the saliency-tracking based methods. The signal injection methods and the future scope of research including the dynamic bandwidth improvement and the acoustic noise reduction are discussed.

Key words: Permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM), sensorlesss, saliency-tracking, high-frequency (HF) signal injection.