Designing Sensorless Drive of BLDC Motor With Using DTC Method

Subject Areas : Electric machine design and control

Gholam Reza Lalehzar ¹ , Amir Movahedi ²

1 - MSc /Malek Ashtar University of Technology
2 - PhD Condidate /University of Kashan

Received: 2013-06-01 Accepted : 2013-09-22 Published : 2013-11-01

Keywords: drive, BLDC motor, sensorless, direct torque control method,

Abstract :

In this paper, to estimate the rotor position in sensorless BLDC motor drive, the method of the ratio functions line by line flux is used. This method, compared to other methods which are evaluated to estimate the rotor position, has low software volume and therefore, its implementation is easy and also manufacturing cost is less. Also this method has an appropriate efficiency in a wide range of speed and estimate the rotor position is independent of speed and rotor frequency. Also in this paper, the method Direct Torque Control (DTC) is used to design sensorless BLDC motor drive. DTC method is one of the most innovative and efficient methods in control of the electrical machine. High speed response to changes in torque, simplicity of implementation, independence to machine parameters and needs of less computation are the advantages of this method. At the end of this paper, simulation results by using software MATLAB shows good performance of sensorless BLDC motors with DTC method compared to the switching function method.

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