Time-varying state observer based twisting control of linear induction motor considering dynamic end effects with unknown load torque

This paper presents a time-varying state observer based twisting control (TC) technique scheme for linear induction motor (LIM) considering dynamic end effects. With Ducan's T-model, indirect field oriented control strategy is introduced and the state space equation of LIM is obtained in (d, q) rotary reference frame. On this basis, LIM's model is extended to two subsystems: flux extended model and speed extended model. Twisting algorithm (TA) is applied into these two subsystems to achieve speed tracking and flux tracking with finite time convergence in the presence of disturbance and uncertainty. For the rotor flux estimation, a time-varying state observer is designed, and its stability and convergence have been proved with Lyapunov's theory. Moreover, the value of estimated LIM speed derivative is obtained via second order sliding mode observer. Furthermore, a reduced order load torque observer is designed to estimate the external load torque. The feasibility and effectiveness of proposed method has been validated by Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test experiment. (C) 2019 ISA. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.