Harmonic-Separation-Based Direct Extraction and Compensation of Inverter Nonlinearity for State Observation Control of PMSM

Nonideal switching characteristics of voltage source inverter (VSI) will result in distortions in both phase currents and reference voltages of a permanent magnet synchronous machine (PMSM) drive system, which will also consequently introduce ripples into the output speed and shaft torque, and result in a performance deterioration in the state observation control. To solve this issue, a method of directly extracting and compensating the nonlinear voltage disturbance due to VSI nonlinearity employed in PMSM drives is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the distorted voltage due to VSI nonlinearity is directly extracted via a harmonic separation scheme, which can be easily compensated by a proportional integral controller afterwards. Since both 6th harmonic and DC terms of
dq
-axis distorted voltages due to VSI nonlinearity are well compensated, the proposed method shows sufficiently good performance under both
$i_{d}=0$
and maximum torque per ampere controls (
$i_{d} < 0$
), as verified on two prototype PMSMs being salient pole and non-salient pole, respectively, both developed for a low-speed rotary actuator. In addition, the application of proposed method to state observation controls such as the model-based sensorless control and the deadbeat predictive current control, is finally investigated. Test results manifest that the proposed method can effectively improve the accuracy of observed rotor position/speed, and the ability of current tracking.