Title :
Sensorless operation of SRM drives: R & D status
Author_Institution :
Bradley Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Virginia Tech., Blacksburg, VA, USA
Abstract :
Sensorless operation is very crucial to the successful commercial entrance of a majority of SRM drives. A large number of sensorless (both current and rotor position) control schemes have been under development over a period of 16 years. It is timely to classify and summarize the industrially important schemes among them for future research, development and applications. Such an attempt is made in this paper
Keywords :
electric current control; inductance; observers; parameter estimation; position control; reluctance motor drives; rotors; SRM drives; absolute rotor position; closed loop control; current control; current sensing; indirect inductance estimation; inductance based position estimation; intelligent control based estimation; observer based position estimation; phase current; research and development; rotor position control; rotor position estimation; rotor position measurement; rotor speed signals; sensing coil based approach; sensorless operation; switched reluctance motor drives; Circuits; Costs; Current measurement; Position measurement; Reluctance motors; Research and development; Rotors; Torque control; Transducers; Voltage control;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Electronics Society, 2001. IECON '01. The 27th Annual Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7108-9
DOI :
10.1109/IECON.2001.976010
