Low- and zero-speed sensorless control of synchronous reluctance motors.pdf

1050 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS, VOL. 35, NO. 5, SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1999 Low- and Zero-Speed Sensorless Control of Synchronous Reluctance Motors Alfio Consoli, Senior Member, IEEE, Fabio Russo, Giuseppe Scarcella, Member, IEEE , and Antonio Testa, Member, IEEE Abstract— This paper presents a position sensorless vector A further step on the way of making SyncRel drives control able to drive synchronous reluctance motors in any more competitive consists in eliminating the position trans- working condition, including low- and zero-speed operations. The ducer. Like any synchronous machine, a SyncRel needs a proposed control scheme is based on calculating the rotor position from the measurement of an additional high-frequency stator cur- position transducer to synchronize the stator current vector rent component and allows a low-cost implementation; moreover, with the rotor. Such a transducer affects the cost of the it does not require the knowledge of any motor parameter, nor drive, largely disadvantaging synchronous reluctance machines particular care for motor starting. Simulation and experimental toward induction machines, that can be open-loop driven by results on a 1.5-kW prototype are presented to evaluate the the conventional constant strategy. Several efforts have consistency of the developed technique. been spent in order to develop a simple, robust, reliable, and Index Terms— Electrical drives, reluctance motors, sensorless low-cost sensorless strategy able to control SyncRe