Sensorless Speed Control of a Brushless DC Motor Using Particle Filter (PF)

Abstract

The equivalent of electricity has recently been used to replace all the wear-prone moving mechanical components that produce faults. The electronic unit that substitutes the mechanical commutation unit in Brushless Direct Current (BLDC) motors improves dynamic properties, noise level, and efficiency. This work describes a method for estimating the BLDC machine's rotor speed and position by using Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) and Particle Filter (PF). The BLDC is a non-linear system with nonlinear measurements. To perform the EKF, Jacobian linearization of the motor model and the observation are needed. Linearization leads to a decrease in the accuracy of filter estimation. In PF, the relative likelihood of each particle is computed according to the measurements. Resampling gives set particles are distributed according to power density function (pdf). Then the PF can compute any desired statistical measure of this pdf. A sensorless drive has an accurate good throughout a wide speed range and with varied load torque, according to the simulation's results. The results show that the velocity inaccuracy rate at PF is approximately 0.01% and that at EKF it is approximately 1%. According to the findings, the PF outperformed the EKF in a comparison between them.