To improve the reliability of electric drive systems during the insulated-gate bipolar transistor short-circuit fault, a control method is proposed for Y-connected 3-phase induction motors. This method allows the operation of 3-phase induction motor drives under the insulated-gate bipolar transistor short-circuit fault without the requirement of a specific inverter topology and control strategy. At first, a modified inverter topology that can rectify the problem produced by an insulated-gate bipolar transistor short-circuit fault is presented. Then, based on the introduced inverter topology, a developed model for Y-connected 3-phase induction motors is presented. According to this model, an indirect vector control system for the faulted drive system based on the calculation of forward and backward magneto-motive force of the motor is proposed. The performance of the control system is validated using experimental tests for a 1HP Y-connected 3-phase induction motor drive system. This research also compares the performance of the proposed indirect vector control technique with conventional indirect vector control techniques during the insulated-gate bipolar transistor short-circuit fault.