A Sign Logic-Based Method of Current Sensor Fault Detection for PMSM Drivers

A simplified method of current sensor fault detection and isolation (FDI) for permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drives, which only requires to collect the information of motor positions and currents of the measured phases, has been proposed in this paper. Compared with the classical state-observer-based approaches, the calculations needed in the new method only involve a few addition and logical operations. The simplicity and reliability of the new method makes itself especially useful for fault detection of current sensors in real-time control systems with limited computational capability, e.g., single-chip microcomputers (SCM) or field programmable gate arrays (FPGA). The experimental results on the basis of a FPGA controller have validated the feasibility and robustness of the proposed FDI approach.