PSO technique applied to sensorless field-oriented control PMSM drive with discretized RL-fractional integral

Abstract

This paper introduces a Fractional Order Field Oriented Control (FO-FOC) with sensorless Model Reference Adaptive System (MRAS) for the Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM). In this work, the conventional integer controllers of the vector control method are replaced with the Fractional Order PI (FOPIα) controllers. Particle Swarm Optimization technique (PSO) is employed to tune the gain, integration parameter and the fractional order parameter for each of the speed, current and MRAS controllers to get the optimum values. The presented methodology is tested using MATLAB Simulink simulation and the results show improved performance of the field oriented control technique by the employment of the fractional order controllers instead of the conventional integer at different operating points. Furthermore, the additional degree of freedom in the fractional controllers helps the PSO technique to get the optimum cost at a very low number of iterations compared with that of the integer one.