15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
A NEW GLOBAL CONTROL SCHEME FOR SENSORLESS CURRENT-FED INDUCTION MOTORS
R. Marino, P. Tomei and C.M. Verrelli
Dip. Ing. Elettronica, Univ. Roma ‘Tor Vergata’, Italy, e-mail:
tomei@eln.uniroma2.it

The problem of controlling a sensorless induction motor (i.e. without rotor speed measurements) is addressed. Smooth reference signals for rotor speed and rotor flux modulus are required to be tracked exponentially and globally. Only semiglobal solutions have been recently obtained in the literature. A global solution is presented for current-fed induction motors which makes use of a novel rotor speed observer and can be naturally extended to the full-order model.
Keywords: Induction motors, nonlinear control, sensorless, output feedback
Session slot T-We-M03: Applications of Adaptive Control/Area code 3b : Adaptive Control and Tuning