Stator q-axis voltage error based sensorless speed estimation of field oriented vector controlled induction motor without using voltage transducer

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to develop a high-performance speed sensorless indirect field oriented control for induction motors (IMs). The proposed method is a novel Model Reference Adaptive System (MRAS) and needs only steady-state stator q-axis voltage equation to estimate rotor speed. And also, the proposed speed estimator algorithm removes the voltage transducer requirement in calculations since the algorithm compares the current requlator PI controller output with the calculated q-axis stator voltage. So the system does not need a reference loop since the calculated voltage I adaptive sub-model is directly compared with controller output. This simple equation does not require any rotor parameter and this makes the system immune to the variation of rotor parameters. Moreover, this unique calculation eliminates the requirement of flux estimation thus, the method is less sensitive to pure integration problems. This makes the estimator quite accurate at very low and zero speeds. Moreover, the suggested MRAS technique eliminates the voltage transducer measurement noises so, the low speed accuracy of the speed estimator is increased. Which are validated in simulations using MATLAB/SIMULINK.