• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.241-248
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• 2007

The accuracy of all the schemes that belong to vector controlled induction machine drives is strongly affected by parameter variations. The aim of this paper is to examine iron losses and magnetic saturation effect in sensorless vector control of induction machines. At first, an approach to induction machine modelling and vector control scheme, which account for both iron loss and saturation, is presented. Then, a model reference adaptive system (MRAS) based speed estimator is developed. The speed estimation is modified in such a way that iron losses and the variation in the saturation level are compensated. Thus by substituting an artificial neural network flux estimator into the MRAS speed estimator. Experimental results are presented to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.830-831
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• 2011

The paper makes an investigation on a speed and stator flux linkage estimator for permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) sensorless drives using the technology of model reference adaptive system (MRAS). The designed estimator including two models and two adaptive estimating laws is proved to be stable by the Popov hyper-stability theory. The speed, the stator flux linkage and the resistance are estimated accurately by the proposed estimator while overcoming the shortcoming of the traditional one. The experiment results demonstrate its effectiveness.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.56 no.1
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• pp.183-187
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• 2007

This paper proposes Fuzzy Speed Estimator using Fuzzy Logic Controller(FLC) as a adaptive law in Model Reference Adaptive System(MRAS) in order to realize the speed-sensorless control of an induction motor. Fuzzy Speed Estimator estimates the speed of an induction motor with a rotor flux of the reference model and the adjustable model in MRAS. Fuzzy logic controller reduces the error of the rotor flux between the reference model and the adjustable model using the error and the change of error of the rotor flux as the input of FLC. The experiment is executed to verify the propriety and the effectiveness of the proposed speed estimator.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.1274-1285
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• 2015

This paper deals with model reference adaptive system (MRAS) speed estimators based on a secondary flux for linear induction motors (LIMs). The operation of these estimators significantly depends on an adaptation mechanism. Fixed-gain PI controller is the most common adaptation mechanism that may fail to estimate the speed correctly in different conditions, such as variation in machine parameters and noisy environment. Two adaptation mechanisms are proposed to improve LIM drive system performance, particularly at very low speed. The first adaptation mechanism is based on fuzzy theory, and the second is obtained from an LIM mechanical model. Compared with a conventional PI controller, the proposed adaptation mechanisms have low sensitivity to both variations of machine parameters and noise. The optimum parameters of adaptation mechanisms are tuned using an offline method through chaotic optimization algorithm (COA) because no design criterion is given to provide these values. The efficiency of MRAS speed estimator is validated by both numerical simulation and real-time hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) implementations. Results indicate that the proposed adaptation mechanisms improve performance of MRAS speed estimator.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.11c
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• pp.660-662
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• 2004

This paper proposes an Intelligent Speed Estimator in order to realize the speed-sensorless vector control of an induction motor. Intelligent Speed Estimator used Model Reference Adaptive System which has Fuzzy-Neural adaptive mechanism as Speed Estimation method. The Intelligent Speed Estimator estimates the speed of an induction motor with a rotor flux of a reference model and adjustable model in MRAS. The Intelligent Speed Estimator reduces the error of the rotor flux between the voltage flux model and the current flux model using the error and the change of error as input of the Estimator. The computer simulation is executed to verify the propriety and the effectiveness of the proposed speed estimator.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.1 no.1 s.1
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• pp.55-63
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• 1997

The purpose of this paper is to realize robust vector control of an induction motor without speed sensor. In order to do it, the speed of an induction motor is estimated using model reference adaptive system(MRAS) and two rotor flux observers which have robustness to the parameter variation are employed as the reference model and the adjustable model in MRAS speed estimator. The MRAS-based overall control scheme has been implemented on 2.2kW induction motor control system and it is verified that the proposed speed sensorless control scheme is more stable and robust than the conventional schemes.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.102-109
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• 2000

In this industrial induction motor speed and torque controlled drive system, the closed loop control usually requires the measurement of speed or position of amotor. However a sensorless drive of an induction motor has several advantages ; low cost and mechanical simplicity. Thus this paper investigates a field oriented control method without speed and flux sensors. The proposed control strategy is based on the Model Reference Adaptive System(MRAS) using a new flux estimator which replaces integrators with two lag circuits as the reference model. This algorithm may overcome several shortages of conventional MRAS such as integrator problems, small EMF at low speed. The simulation and experimental results indicate good speed responses.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.162.5-162
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• 2001

This paper presents a indirect vector control system for induction motors using an adaptive fuzzy logic(AFL) speed estimator. The proposed speed estimator is based on the MRAS(Mode Referece Adaptive System) scheme. In general, the MRAS speed estimation approaches are more simple than any other strategies. However, there are some difficulties in the scheme, which are strong sensitivity to the motor parameters variations and necessity to detune the estimator gains caused by different speed area. In this paper, the AFL speed estimator is proposed to solve the problems. The structure of the proposed AFL is very simple. The input of the AFL is the rotor flux error difference between reference and adjustable model, and the output is the estimated incremental rotor speed. Moreover, the back propagation algorithm is combined to adjust the parameters of the fuzzy logic to the most appropriate values during the operating the system. Finally, the validity of the ...

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.873-881
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• 2014

Speed sensorless modes of operation are becoming standard solution in the area of electric drives. This paper presents flux estimator and speed estimator for the speed sensorless vector control of induction motors. The proposed sensorless methods are based on the model reference adaptive system (MRAS) observer and adaptive speed observer (ASO). The proposed speed estimation algorithm can be employed in the power control of grid connected induction generator for wind power applications. Two proposed schemes are verified through computer simulation PSIM and compared their simulation results.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 1996.06a
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• pp.1-4
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• 1996

The purpose of this treatise is to estimate speed of an induction motor and realize a robust speed control system with estimated speed in field-weakening region. A speed estimation is based on Model Reference Adaptive System(MRAS) technique and two flux estimator are designed to be robust against parameter variation. The MRAS-based overall control scheme has been implemented on 7.5kW Spindle induction motor control system. And it is verified that the proposed control scheme is very stable and robust in field-weakening region.