GA-based off-line parameter estimation of the induction motor model including magnetic saturation and iron losses

Abstract

This paper, starting from recent papers in the scientific literature dealing with Induction Motor (IM) dynamic modelling, as a first step, improves its space-vector dynamic model, including both the magnetic saturation and iron losses; particularly it takes into account the dependence of the magnetic saturation by the stator leakage inductance, as a further effect of the load. Afterwards, it proposes an off-line technique for the estimation of electrical parameters of this model, which is based on Genetic Algorithms (GA). The proposed method is based on input-output measurements and needs neither the machine design geometrical data nor a FEA of the machine. It focuses on the application of an algorithm based on the minimization of a suitable cost function depending on the stator current error. The proposed electrical parameters estimation method has been initially tested in numerical simulation and further verified experimentally on a suitably developed test set-up.