A new position sensorless control for IPMSM using feature values measured at zero voltage vector based on pattern matching method

This paper presents a position sensorless control method based on pattern matching method for high power density Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (IPMSMs) that have non-sinusoidal inductance spatial distribution. In this paper, a new pattern matching method using feature values measured at zero voltage vector is proposed to improve the position estimation performance. By measuring the feature values at zero voltage vector, the number of feature value used in evaluation function is increased and it is advantageous for position sensorless control performance while keeping the wide operating range. Through experimental results, the effectiveness of the proposed method is presented.