Fault tolerant capability of deadbeat - Direct torque and flux control for three-phase PMSM drives

This paper investigates the performance of a three phase permanent magnet synchronous machine (PMSM) drive operating under a single fault, adopting a fault tolerant (FT) control, based on deadbeat - direct torque and flux control (DB-DTFC). DB-DTFC offers an independent regulation of the electromagnetic torque and the stator flux linkage by using a control law based on an inverse discrete time physical model. During fault conditions, the PMSM drive requires very limited hardware and software reconfigurations. The drive model equations result very similarly to those adopted for the healthy electric drive just by using a different matrix transformation set when the drive operates under a faulty condition. The proposed fault tolerant DB-DTFC ensures satisfactory faulty operations and drive stability, without increasing the computational efforts.