Peak Current Detection Starting based Position Sensorless Control of BLDC Motor Drive for PV Array Fed Irrigation Pump

A single stage position sensorless control based solar power fed PMBLDC (Permanent Magnet Brushless DC) motor drive scheme for irrigation pump is proposed in this paper. The proposed system is designed without using any mechanical sensor to reduce the cost along with the complexity of the system with optimum utilization of the solar Photovoltaic (PV) power. The proposed system integrated with a PMBLDC motor drive coupled to a water pump is controlled by an inverter input voltage sensing based position sensorless control with high current detection and commutation point estimation based starting to wide speed range control .Elimination of position sensor, makes the system control compact and cheaper. The peak current estimation based starting in sensorless mode, enables soft starting restricting high starting current with reliability like sensor based operation. The proposed drive is tested and validated on a developed laboratory prototype and its suitability is justified with different test results under steady state and dynamic operating conditions.