Enhanced Low-Frequency Ride-Through for Speed-Sensorless Induction Motor Drives With Adaptive Observable Margin

For speed-sensorless induction motor (IM) drives, the observability of rotor speed is still a challenging problem under steady-state operations at low synchronous frequencies. To cope with this problem, an enhanced magnetizing current-oriented low-frequency ride-through method is proposed for adaptive full-order observers to ensure the observability of rotor speed. The adaptive changes of magnetizing current reference are generated to maintain the speed observable margin near zero synchronous frequency. Compared with existing methods, it avoids the noises caused by direct rotor flux reference calculation. In addition, the feedback matrix is employed to narrow the unstable regenerating region, and enlarge the observable margin. Addressing the detailed implementation, the analyses are provided with respect to output torque constraint, magnetizing current selection, and observability. Finally, the effectiveness of proposed method is validated on a 2.2 kW IM experimental bench during low-frequency ride-through.

Automated summary

An enhanced magnetizing current-oriented low-frequency ride-through method is proposed for speed-sensorless induction motor drives to ensure observability of the rotor speed. Adaptive changes in the magnetizing current reference are generated to maintain the speed observable margin, avoiding noise caused by direct rotor flux reference calculation. The feedback matrix is employed to narrow the unstable regenerating region and enlarge the observable margin.