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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS, VOL. 61, NO. 4, APRIL 2014 1679 Discrete-Time Sliding Mode Observer for Sensorless Vector Control of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine Thiago Bernardes, Vinícius Foletto Montagner, Hilton Abílio Gründling, and Humberto Pinheiro, Member, IEEE Abstract—This paper proposes a sensorless vector control that combines two discrete-time observers to estimate the rotor speed and position of permanent magnet synchronous machines (PMSM). The first one is a sliding mode (DSM) current observer and the second one is an adaptive electromotive force (EMF) observer. Initially, the sliding conditions that assure the sliding motion around the sliding surface are derived and a design pro- cedure to the DSM current observer is developed. Moreover, using discrete-time adaptive Lyapunov based EMF observer the rotor speed and position are obtained. Experimental results validate the theoretical analysis and demonstrate the very good performance of the proposed discrete-time sensorless vector control. Index Terms—Adaptive electromotive force (EMF) observer, current observer, discrete-time sliding mode (DSM), Lyapunov’s direct method, sensorless vector control. I. INTRODUCTION IN RECENT years, researchers and industries have been pay-ing attention to permanent magnet synchronous machines (PMSM) because of their high efficiency, high power–weight ratio and simple structure compared with other machines. High performance electrical drives using PMSM require the knowledge of the rotor position to implement the field oriented control. Mechanical sensors can provide the information for the rotor position, however they increase the cost and decrease the reliability of the drive. Besides, mechanical sensors are sus- ceptible to fail in harmful environment conditions [1]. Hence, sensorless control techniques provide the means to overcome the aforementioned limitations. Sensorless control techniques can be divided into two classes [1]–[3]. The first one i