A Novel Sensorless Direct Torque Control Technique of Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor

This paper presents a novel sensorless direct torque control of interior permanent magnet synchronous motor with resilient extended Kalman filter. In comparison to the field-oriented control scheme, direct torque control has advantages due to its simplicity (without Park’s transform or space-vector pulse-width-modulation), excellent transient response, high reliability and robustness. The interior permanent magnet synchronous motors have been extensively used in industrial applications due to their high efficiency, large torque to weight ratio, high performance and high reliability. Traditionally, the rotor position and speed of rotation are directly fed back through encoders or resolvers. In order to provide a more reliable and cost saving approach, the sensorless direct torque control of permanent magnet synchronous motor technique is proposed to eliminate the need of using encoders or resolvers. A novel nonlinear estimator, the resilient extended Kalman filter is proposed, which shows superior estimation accuracy compared with other estimation approaches such as extended Kalman filter. Computer simulation and DSP hardware implementation have been conducted to show the superior performance of the proposed approach.