Sensors, Vol. 19, Pages 3546: Sensorless Control of the Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (Sensors)

This paper describes the study and experimental verification of sensorless control of permanent magnet synchronous motors with a high precision drive using two novel estimation methods. All the studies of the modified Luenberger observer, reference model, and unscented Kalman filter are presented with algorithm details. The main part determines trials with a full range of reference speeds with a special near-zero speed area taken into account. In order to compare the estimation performances of the observers, both are designed for the same motor and control system and run in the same environment. The experimental results indicate that the presented methods are capable of tracking the actual values of speed and motor position with small deviation, sufficient for precise control.