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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS, VOL. 39, NO. 3, MAY/JUNE 2003 783 A Sensorless, Stable V f Control Method for Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Motor Drives P. D. Chandana Perera, Student Member, IEEE, Frede Blaabjerg, Fellow, IEEE, John K. Pedersen, Senior Member, IEEE, and Paul Th?gersen, Senior Member, IEEE Abstract—When permanent-magnet synchronous motors PMSMs are used for pump and fan applications, control methods can be used to control them. The problem with open-loop control of PMSMs without having damper windings in the rotor is the inherent instability after exceeding a certain applied frequency. In this paper, a new control method is proposed for motor drives for stable operation in a wide frequency range. The magnitude of the voltage is controlled in order to maintain a constant stator flux linkage in the PMSM. The applied frequency is modulated proportional to the input power perturbations to stabilize the drive for a wide frequency range. No position sensor is Fig. 1. Open-loop V f control approach, which can be used for interior-type required to implement this stabilizing technique. The small-signal PMSMs with damper windings in the rotor. analysis and the experimental results confirm the effectiveness of this stabilizing technique. The experimental results also indicate the satisfactory performance of the drive for pump and fan of the damper windings in the rotor assures the synchronization applications. of motion of the rotor with the stator applied frequency, which Index Terms—Permanent-magnet synchronous motor PMSM , is the fundamental requirement for synchronous machine con- sensorless control, synchronous motor stability, volts-per-hertz trol. This allows a stable control of this type of PMSM in an control. open-loop manner as shown in Fig. 1. Due to the high manufacturing cost and the difficulty to de- I. INTRODUCTION sign rotors with damper windings for some type of PMSMs