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Sensorless Sine-Wave Controller IC for PM Brushless Motor Employing Automatic Lead-Angle Compensation

  • Kim, Minki (Information & Communications Core Technology Research Laboratory, ETRI) ;
  • Heo, Sewan (IT Convergence Technology Research Laboratory, ETRI) ;
  • Oh, Jimin (Information & Communications Core Technology Research Laboratory, ETRI) ;
  • Suk, Jung-Hee (Information & Communications Core Technology Research Laboratory, ETRI) ;
  • Yang, Yil Suk (Information & Communications Core Technology Research Laboratory, ETRI) ;
  • Park, Ki-Tae (Iron Device Corporation) ;
  • Kim, Jinsung (Iron Device Corporation)
  • Received : 2015.04.20
  • Accepted : 2015.10.12
  • Published : 2015.12.01
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Abstract

This paper presents an advanced sensorless permanent magnet (PM) brushless motor controller integrated circuit (IC) employing an automatic lead-angle compensator. The proposed IC is composed of not only a sensorless sine-wave motor controller but also an isolated gate-driver and current self-sensing circuit. The fabricated IC operates in sensorless mode using a position estimator based on a sliding mode observer and an open-loop start-up. For high efficiency PM brushless motor driving, an automatic lead-angle control algorithm is employed, which improves the efficiency of a PM brushless motor system by tracking the minimum copper loss under various load and speed conditions. The fabricated IC is evaluated experimentally using a commercial 200 W PM brushless motor and power switches. The proposed IC is successfully operated without any additional sensors, and the proposed algorithm maintains the minimum current and maximum system efficiency under $0N{\cdot}m$ to $0.8N{\cdot}m$ load conditions. The proposed IC is a feasible sensorless speed controller for various applications with a wide range of load and speed conditions.

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