New Fault-Tolerant Sensorless Control of FPFTPM Motor Based on Hybrid Adaptive Robust Observation for Electric Agricultural Equipment Applications

Zifeng Pei, Li Zhang (), Haijun Fu and Yucheng Wang
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Zifeng Pei: School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
Li Zhang: School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
Haijun Fu: School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
Yucheng Wang: State Grid Zhenjiang Power Supply Company, Zhenjiang 212013, China

Energies, 2025, vol. 18, issue 8, 1-22

Abstract: This paper proposes a hybrid adaptive robust observation (HARO)-based sensorless control strategy of a five-phase fault-tolerant permanent-magnet (FPFTPM) motor for electric agricultural equipment applications under various operating conditions, including fault conditions. Regarding fault-tolerant sensorless control, the existing studies usually treat fault-tolerant control and sensorless control as two independent units rather than a unified system, which makes the algorithm complex. In addition, under the traditional fault-tolerant algorithm, the system needs to switch after diagnosis when the fault occurs, which leads to a degraded sensorless control performance. Hence, this paper proposes a fault-tolerant sensorless control strategy that can achieve the whole speed range without fault-tolerant switching. At zero/low speed, a disturbance adaptive controller (DAC) architecture is developed by treating phase faults as system disturbances, where robust controllers and extended state observer (ESO) collaboratively suppress speed and position errors. At medium/high speeds, this paper provides a steady-healthy SMO, which combines the enhanced observer and universal phase-locked loop (PLL) without phase compensation. With above designs, the proposed strategy can significantly improve the estimated accuracy of rotor position under normal conditions and fault circumstances, while simplifying the complexity of the fault-tolerant sensorless algorithm. Furthermore, the proposed strategy is verified based on the experimental platform of the FPFTPM motor drive system. The experimental results show that compared with the traditional method, the torque ripple and position error are reduced by nearly 20% and 60%, respectively, at zero-low speed and medium-high speed, and the torque ripple is reduced by 55% during fault operation, which verifies the robustness and effectiveness of the proposed method.

Keywords: sensorless control; fault-tolerant; disturbance rejection; sliding-mode observer (SMO); five-phase motor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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