Robust magnet polarity estimation for initialization of PM synchronous machines with near-zero saliency

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1199-1209

  Raca, Dejan ^a   Harke, Michael C ^b   Lorenz, Robert D ^c  

^a Magnetek Inc   (United States)

^b Hamilton Sundstrand   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Initial position estimation; Permanent magnet (PM) machines; Self sensing; Sensorless

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MAGNETS; PERMANENT MAGNETS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VECTORS;

CARRIER SIGNALS; DC OFFSETS; ESTIMATION ERRORS; INITIAL POSITION ESTIMATION; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; PERMANENT-MAGNET (PM) MACHINES; PERMANENT-MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS MACHINES; SELF-SENSING; SENSORLESS; SIGNAL CONTENT; SYNCHRONOUS MACHINES;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 49249120922     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2008.926195     Document Type: Article

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