All Current Sensor Survivable IPMSM Drive With Reconfigurable Inverter

Abstract

The conventional phase current reconstruction strategies utilize a dc bus current sensor to reproduce the three-phase currents during phase current sensor faults. However, no current sensor is guaranteed to be healthy in an actual drive. It means that the only survived current sensor may not be accidentally located at the dc bus side, and it can also be at the phase side. In addition, previous studies focus on a particular inverter topology for current reconstruction, whose fault-tolerant capability is threatened when the inverter topology is changed due to malfunctions. This article proposes a survivable interior permanent magnet synchronous motor (IPMSM) drive that realizes the current reconstruction purpose whichever the only survived current sensor is. Besides, inverter topology reconfiguration can be realized by not changing the wirings of the current sensors. Most important of all, the proposed strategy does not affect the normal operations of the drive when no fault occurs. The effectiveness of the proposed strategy is verified by experimental results on a 5-kW IPMSM motor prototype, which shows that the reconstructed phase currents track the actual ones accurately under different failure conditions.