• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1997.07a
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• pp.112-114
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• 1997

Recently sensorless PMSM is much studied for the industrial applications and home appliances. Most of sensorless algorithm are based on the motor equations of which coefficients are motor parameters. However, uncertainty of motor parameter effects the accuracy of speed estimation of PMSM. This paper investigates the robust speed control of sensorless PMSM which has robustness to parameter uncertainty or variation. The parameter compensation is performed through PI control of the speed error between the estimated speed and the real speed obtained from the measured current. The proposed algorithm is verified through the experiment.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.29-37
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• 2006

A sensorless control for an IPM (Interior Permanent Magnet) synchronous motor in a single piston rotary compressor is presented in this study. The rotor position is estimated from the d-axis and q-axis current errors between the real system and a motor model of the position estimator. The torque pulsation of the single piston rotary compressor is compensated to reduce speed ripples, as well as, mechanical noise and vibration. The proposed sensorless drive enables the compressor to operate at a lower speed which increases energy savings and reduces mechanical noise. It also gives high speed operations by a flux weakening control for rapid air-cooling and heating of the heat pump air-conditioners.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.1-17
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• 2009

Permanent magnet brushless DC (PMBLDC) motors are the latest choice of researchers due to their high efficiency, silent operation, compact size, high reliability and low maintenance requirements. These motors are preferred for numerous applications; however, most of them require sensorless control of these motors. The operation of PMBLDC motors requires rotor-position sensing for controlling the winding currents. The sensorless control would need estimation of rotor position from the voltage and current signals, which are easily sensed. This paper presents state of the art PMBLDC motor drives with an emphasis on sensorless control of these motors.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.114-121
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• 2013

High efficiency operation is required for motors of vehicle to increase fuel efficiency due to the regulation of exhaust gas. This paper presents a control method of fuel pressure to increase fuel efficiency and a sensorless control method of BLDC motor to get higher efficiency than conventional brushed DC motor. Initial rotor position of BLDC motor is detected from current value that is occurred by test voltage pulse and rotor is accelerated by defined sequence to enter sensorless operation mode. The algorithm to control flow rate of fuel pump uses PI controller that is control motor speed to maintain the target fuel pressure commanded by ECU.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2001.07a
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• pp.397-400
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• 2001

This paper presents a implementation of digital sensorless position control system of surface permanent-magnet synchronous motor (SPMSM) drive with a direct torque control (DTC). The system are stator flux and torque observer of stator flux feedback control model that inputs are current and voltage sensing of motor terminal with estimated rotor angle for a low speed operating area, two hysteresis band controllers, an optimal switching look-up table, rotor speed estimator, and IGBT voltage source inverter by using fully integrated control software. The developed sensorless control system are shown a good motion control response characteristic results and high performance features using 1.0 (kW) purposed servo drive SPMSM.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.213-214
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• 2015

In this paper, a novel method of sensorless control scheme is proposed to apply on a single phase hybrid SRM used in high speed operation. The proposed method utilizes beneficially permanent magnet field whose performance is motor parameter independent to estimate the rotor position. The differential value of back-EMF is used to detect its peak point when there is no current conducting in the winding. Through this approach, the adjustable turn on/off position can be achieved without prior knowledge of inductance profile which is always employed by many sensorless schemes. And this paper may offer an available method to do the sensorless control in hybrid SRM used for high speed running.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.127-133
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• 2019

This paper proposes a restarting method for extended electromotive force (EEMF)-based sensorless permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drive systems. The sensorless PMSM drive systems generally estimate the rotor speed and angle based on EEMF. However, if the inverter is stopped while the PMSM is rotating, the initial rotor speed and angle are required for restart. Therefore, the proposed restarting method estimates the initial rotor speed and angle using the short-circuit current generated by applying zero voltage vector from the inverter. The validity of the proposed method is verified by simulation and experimental results.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.18-25
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• 2022

The cold staring issue of permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSM) is a chronic problem in the field of PMSM sensorless drives. A traditional starting method, called the I-F method, is widely adopted because of its simple structure. However, when using this method, the pre-defined magnitude and frequency of the starting current should be changed according to the condition of the load and machine inertia. In this paper, a smart and simple algorithm for the cold starting of PMSM is proposed. In the proposed method, an integrated control angle from the estimated electrical rotor speed is used for vector control such as the indirect vector control of the induction machine. Thus, very stable cold starting is performed regardless of the machine load condition or inertia changing.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.1293-1302
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• 2014

A flyback inverter using voltage sensorless maximum power point tracking (MPPT) for photovoltaic (PV) AC modules is presented. PV AC modules for a power rating from 150 W to 300 W are generally required for their small size and low price because of the installation on the back side of PV modules. In the conventional MPPT technique for PV AC modules, sensors for detecting PV voltage and PV current are required to calculate the PV output power. However, system size and cost increase when the voltage sensor and current sensor are used because of the addition of the auxiliary circuit for the sensors. The proposed method uses only the current sensor to track the MPP point. Therefore, the proposed control method overcomes drawbacks of the conventional control method. Theoretical analysis, simulation, and experiment are performed to verify the proposed control method.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.1154-1164
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• 2015

This paper proposes a fully sensorless driver for a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) integrated with a digital motor controller and an analog pre-driver, including sensing circuits and estimators. In the motor controller, a position estimator estimates the back electromotive force and rotor position using a sliding-mode observer. In the pre-driver, drivers for the power devices are designed with a level shifter and isolation technique. In addition, a current sensing circuit measures a three-phase current. All of these circuits are integrated in a single chip such that the driver achieves control of the speed with high accuracy. Using an IC fabricated using a $0.18{\mu}m$ BCDMOS process, the performance was verified experimentally. The driver showed stable operation in spite of the variation in speed and load, a similar efficiency near 1% compared to a commercial driver, a low speed error of about 0.1%, and therefore good performance for the PMSM drive.