Flux and Parameters Identification of Vector-Controlled Induction Motor in the Rotor Reference Frame

This paper presents a new approach for the simultaneous identification of rotor flux components in the rotor reference frame and electrical parameters of a vector controlled induction motor, for real-time implementations, using an extended Kalman filter (EKF) and a reduced order model structure for lower computational effort. The proposed new method requires the measurement of motor speed, stator voltages and currents signals. Using a motor model structure with four electrical parameters, the estimation of flux space phasor and rotor parameters is presented. The estimation is subsequently further extended to include the motor stator parameters and the results are analyzed as well as robustness. Simulated and experimental studies highlight the improvements brought by this new approach, mainly, a simple and reduced state equation, the introduced scalar output equation and lower computational cadency, by using lower sampling frequencies in the proposed rotor reference frame.