Sensorless Fault-Tolerant Control with Phase Delay Compensation for Aerospace FTPMSM Drives with Phase Open-Circuit and Short-Circuit Faults

To enhance the reliability of fault-tolerant permanent-magnet synchronous motor (FTPMSM) drives, a new sensorless control based on the robust observer, nonorthogonal phase-locked loop (PLL), and variable phase delay compensation is proposed, which can guarantee the medium- and high-speed sensorless control performance for the FTPMSM even in the phase open-circuit and short-circuit fault conditions. A robust observer is proposed to achieve any two healthy phase back electromotive force (EMF) estimation, regardless of the parameter variation, external disturbance, and the phase fault. The nonorthogonal PLL is presented to extract the information of the rotor position from the observed two nonorthogonal phase back-EMFs. To enhance the estimation accuracy of the rotor position as the speed changes, the variable cut-off frequency low-pass filter (VLPF) is proposed to eliminate the high-frequency noises of the observed phase back-EMFs, while a phase delay compensation is presented to compensate for the estimation deviation caused by the VLPF. The resulting sensorless FTPMSM system has excellent speed control performance both in normal and fault conditions, which is also demonstrated by a six-phase FTPMSM system experimental platform.