Application of Sensorless Sliding Mode Observer in Control of Induction Motor Drive

Induction motors are widely used in an industry and it is necessary to improve control methods for induction motors to increase the efficiency of them. In this paper, sliding mode controllers are proposed instead of traditional PI controllers in vector control of induction motor drives. Moreover, rotor speed is estimated by a sliding mode observer. In addition, the robustness of control and observer algorithms are also proved by Lyapunov’s criterion. The experiments are obtained in different speed changes of an induction motor drive. These experimental results confirm the dynamic properties of a sensorless sliding mode control of an induction motor drive.