Sensorless control of induction machines at zero and low frequency using zero sequence currents

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 195-206

  Staines, Cyril Spiteri ^a   Caruana, Cedric ^a   Asher, Greg M ^b   Sumner, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Induction machine; Position estimation; Rotor slotting saliency; Saturation saliency; Sensorless control; Zero sequence current

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC WINDINGS; ESTIMATION; INDUCTANCE; LEAKAGE CURRENTS; ROTORS;

POSITION ESTIMATION; ROTOR SLOTTING SALIENCY; SATURATION SALIENCY; SENSORLESS CONTROL; ZERO SEQUENCE CURRENT;

ASYNCHRONOUS MACHINERY;

EID: 32644476089     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2005.862295     Document Type: Article

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