syreDrive: Automated Sensorless Control Code Generation for Synchronous Reluctance Motor Drives

To compete with scalar controlled induction motors, Synchronous Reluctance (SyR) motor drives for general purpose applications must be sensorless controlled, which is considered a non-standard practice in the field of electrical drives control. This paper proposes a new software tool for the simulation of a sensorless controlled SyR machine drive, with automatic generation of the control code and the simulation model itself, starting from the motor flux maps and main design parameters. This tool is integrated in the motor design platform SyRe to bridge the motor desing and control design phases into a single, integrated toolchain. Results are shown for two motors of different ratings, to assess the general validity of the proposed approach.