A sensorless anti-windup speed control approach to axial gap bearingless motors with nonlinear lumped mismatched disturbance observers

Abstract

In this paper, sensorless robust speed control with nonlinear lumped mismatched disturbance observers for a permanent magnet type axial gap bearingless motor (AGBM) is designed. Multistage anti-windup-based dynamic surface control combined with integral backstepping control is proposed to control the motor’s axial displacement and rotor speed. The approach is against parameter uncertainties and external disturbances, improving steady-state accuracy, eliminating the derivative explosion phenomenon, no chattering problem, and reducing the magnitude of the control system when current saturation occurs. In addition, a novel nonlinear lumped mismatched disturbance observer is proposed to improve the approach under unmodeled dynamics and external disturbances. To obtain high-accuracy tracking control, the control system includes the robust controller combined with the disturbance observers and anticipatory activation of anti-windup (AW) compensation, which means the controller is more complex. Then, to design a sensorless robust speed control for the motor, the rotor position and speed observer require higher accuracy. High-gain back-EMF observer combined with an improved phase-locked loop is proposed to estimate rotor angular position and speed even when the motor speed is reversed. Overall stability of closed-loop system control, including a sensorless speed control approach for motors using back-EMF estimation combined with saturation of the currents and lumped disturbance observers, is mathematically proven. Finally, the simulation results under measurement noise show that the proposed control system are obtained the effectiveness, feasibility, and robustness.