High Quality Sensorless Control Strategy for Seven-phase PMSM in Full Speed Range

At low speed, the traditional high frequency signal injection (HFSI) control strategy will lead to large torque ripple, and affect the estimation accuracy of the position/speed related to sensorless control algorithm, and finally lead to the problem of the system stability. Based on the characteristics of seven-phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine (PMSM), this paper proposes a new sensorless control strategy in full speed range. In the zero/low speed range, HFSI method is applied to the 5th harmonic subspace, which reduce the torque ripple of the machine.. In the medium/high speed range, the sliding mode observer (SMO) is used in the 1^st harmonic subspace to estimate the speed and position of the machine. The influences between the two methods are effectively reduced when exchanging from zero/low speed to medium/high speed range. Moreover, the estimated position and speed is more accurate and the torque ripple is smaller with the proposed sensorless control strategy. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed strategy is verified by simulation results.