Current Sensor Fault-Tolerant Control for Five-Phase PMSM Drives Based on Third-Harmonic Space

According to the different forms of back electromotive force, five-phase permanent-magnet synchronous motors (FPMSMs) can be divided into two types: sinusoidal FPMSMs (SFPMSMs) and trapezoidal FPMSMs (TFPMSMs). In field-oriented-controlled FPMSM drives, current sensors may malfunction in harsh working environments. In this article, two current sensor fault-tolerant control (FTC) strategies based on third-harmonic space, respectively, corresponding to SFPMSMs and TFPMSMs are proposed. Different from three-phase motor, the decoupled model of five-phase motor contains two orthogonal subspaces. The key to both strategies is that the third-harmonic space currents are controlled at zero when current sensors malfunction. Thus, the faulty phase current can be estimated with other phase currents by using the constraint equations of current transformation. For SFPMSMs, vector control and sinusoidal pulsewidth modulation technology are used to control the third-harmonic space currents to zero. For TFPMSMs, offset axis transformation and resonant observer are adopted for third-harmonic space current estimation and the third-harmonic space currents are controlled to zero by using the estimated values as feedback of vector control. The experimental results demonstrate that the robustness of both current sensor FTC systems is well performed in the whole speed range.