An adaptive gain phase‐locked loop for position sensorless control of permanent magnet synchronous motor drives

Abstract

Abstract In view of the cost and reliability issues caused by mechanical position sensors, position sensorless control (PSC) of permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) has received widespread attention. A series of rotor position estimation (RPE) schemes have been developed, in which the phase‐locked loop (PLL) plays an important role. However, the conventional phase‐locked loops face two thorny issues, one is the degradation of RPE performance under motor acceleration and deceleration conditions, and the other is high noise sensitivity. To this end, an adaptive gain PLL (AG‐PLL) is proposed for PSC of PMSM drives. The gains of the loop filter in the proposed AG‐PLL are adaptively adjusted with the estimation error in order to find a compromise between the estimation performance under motor acceleration and deceleration conditions and the noise sensitivity. Moreover, the proposed scheme avoids increasing the order of the PLL, so its dynamic performance is also guaranteed. The proposed scheme is tested based on the hardware‐in‐the‐loop platform.

Keywords

• permanent magnet motors
• phase locked loops
• position control