Initial Rotor Position Detection for Sensorless Interior PMSM With Square-Wave Voltage Injection

In order to resolve the starting problem for position sensorless interior permanent magnet synchronous motor, an improved initial rotor position estimation method based on square-wave signal injection is presented in this paper. Instead of the conventional sinusoidal voltage injection, square-wave voltage signals are injected into stator windings to obtain magnet pole position. On the basis of saturation and saliency principle, the voltage pulse injection method was adopted to identify the magnet polarity. Detecting the magnet pole position by using the square-wave voltage injection, the error signal can be calculated without low-pass filters and time delays. The proposed method is verified via a 1.5 kW interior permanent magnet synchronous motor drive platform.