Reduction of the manufacturing costs is one of the major concerns in the automotive
industries. Removing the current sensors on the electric powertrain is a way to achieve this …

In high frequency (HF) injection methods, classical tracking algorithms are used to estimate
the rotor position for sensorless alternating current (AC) salient pole machines. These …

This paper studies the possibility of removing the position sensor from electric vehicles (EVs)
powertrains that employ the externally-excited synchronous machine (EESM) for traction …

Motion-sensorless control techniques of electrical drives are attracting more attention in
different industries. The local observability of sensorless permanent magnet synchronous …

A nonlinear observer has been developed in order to estimate the stator current of a wound
rotor synchronous machine (WRSM) and get rid of the current sensors. The main difficulty …

A sensorless position scheme was developed for wound synchronous machines. The
demodulation process is fundamentally the same as the conventional signal-injection …

The synchronous reluctance motor (SynRM) is gaining popularity for general purpose
drivers, where the sensorless operation is important. It is well known that, at low-speed, the …

The inherent advantages of sensorless control related to reliability, efficiency and costs turn
it to be a very interesting technology for automotive applications. Nevertheless, the …

This paper proposes a sensorless control of an electrically excited synchronous machine
(EESM) using mutual inductance. EESM is a synchronous machine that has a field winding …

Sensorless control for electrical drives is still a challenge in the low-speed and standstill
region. Solutions that inject a high frequency signal in order to generate position dependent …