Multirate output feedback-based robust sensorless control of doubly-fed induction motor

Abstract

A robust sensorless control of doubly-fed induction motor (DFIM) is proposed in this paper. The stator of the DFIM is connected to the grid and the rotor is fed via controlled voltage source. Since the speed or flux measurement is not used, the sensorless control is achieved by using multirate output feedback (MROF)-based output feedback technique. The robustness towards parametric variations and matched disturbances is achieved by using MROF-based sliding mode control (SMC). The linear equations of doubly-fed induction motor are utilised for application of MROF and the state reference commands are computed from torque and speed reference commands separately. The proposed MROF-SMC controller is shown to be tracking given torque and speed commands.