Bi-tooth flux-switching permanent magnet (FSPM) machine is an interesting brushless machine having magnets and excitation windings in the stator, which exhibits larger back EMF and requires only half the number and volume of PMs compared to conventional FSPM machine. However, air gap magnetic field is difficult to be regulated due to PM excitation alone. In this paper, by introducing an additio...

This paper presents a new rotor flux estimation method for sensorless vector controlled squirrel-cage induction generators used in wind power applications. The proposed method is based on a phase-locked loop (PLL) and the orthogonality between the rotor flux space vector and its back electromotive force (EMF) space vector. Rotor flux is estimated using stator voltage equations without integrati...

A new permanent magnet design for axial flux interior permanent magnet (AFIPM) motor is described in this paper. Poleshoes are traditionally used to produce sinusoidal flux linkage and sinusoidal EMF especially in the case of radial flux synchronous machines. Poleshoes are not a practical solution in the case of axial flux PM machine. The use of poleshoes in the production of sinusoidal back EM...

The control of a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) without position sensor based on sliding-mode observer (SMO) algorithm has serious jitter problem in the process phase tracking. A second-order adaptive was proposed, and ideas principles super-twisting were elaborated. In particular, estimation with introduction back-electromotive force (EMF) investigated, Lyapunov stability criterion ...

In the present paper a simple sensorless spccd estimation scheme is presented , where the speed information is obtained from the motor phase current ripple. The scheme measures the stator current phasor deviation direction to determine the back emf vector position during inverter zero vector switching states. This measurcment of rotor flux position is done indirectly by computing the motor back...

This paper uses a new position sensor less drive for brushless DC (BLDC) motors. In conventional sensor less control methods such as the back-EMF detection method, the performance is high only at a high speed range due to the fact that the magnitude of the back-EMF is dependent on the rotor speed. A solution is derived that estimates the rotor position by using an unknown input observer over a ...

This paper provides a technical review of position and speed sensorless methods for controlling Brushless Direct Current (BLDC) motor drives, including the background analysis using sensors, limitations and advances. The performance and reliability of BLDC motor drivers have been improved because the conventional control and sensing techniques have been improved through sensorless technology. T...

In this paper, an adaptive current controller is proposed for variable speed brushless direct (BLDC) motor drives to minimize the output torque ripples caused by parametric and periodically varying uncertainties. Phase-to-phase non-ideal back-electromotive force (back-EMF) in BLDC changes with respect shaft angle, hence period of these signals alters depending on rotor frequency. To address pro...