Current sensor fault‐tolerant control strategy for surface‐permanent‐magnet‐synchronous motor drives based on improved full‐order sliding‐mode observer.

This paper exhibits a sensorless speed control method based on full‐order‐sliding‐mode observer applied to a fault‐tolerant permanent‐magnet‐synchronous motor (PMSM) drive system. So, this paper proposes a rapid method of fault switch detection in the power converters aiming to make sure of the continuity of service despite the fault presence of an opening phase. In fact, the full‐order‐sliding‐mode observer (FO‐SMO) observer is used to replace the mechanical sensor and a redundant inverter leg is equally employed to replace the faulty leg. The proposed new fast fault diagnosis method has the features of a simple algorithm, independent of the transient states and being simply integrated without any additional sensors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]