Robust Position Estimator for Sensorless Control of Traction Motor in Electric Vehicles

Although the sensorless control of traction motor can improve the mileage, cost, and reliability of electric vehicles (EVs), its practical use remains challenging due to the vulnerability of conventional position estimator for sensorless control to severe load torque. However, this limitation can be...

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Main Authors: Myeong-Won Kim, Issac Kim, Seung-Mook Baek, Jung-Wook Park
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2025-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10947747/
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description Although the sensorless control of traction motor can improve the mileage, cost, and reliability of electric vehicles (EVs), its practical use remains challenging due to the vulnerability of conventional position estimator for sensorless control to severe load torque. However, this limitation can be overcome by utilizing the kinematic and dynamic sensors embedded in the latest EVs. Therefore, this study proposes a new position estimator that utilizing the total torque and speed error as the inputs by reprocessing the vehicle acceleration information to improve the robustness against the load torque. In addition, gains of proposed position estimator are determined to nullify errors that may occur during the reprocessing of information. As the results, the proposed position estimator can achieve the high estimation bandwidth, while improving the overall estimation performance. Furthermore, the practical effectiveness of proposed position estimator is verified by both the experimental tests and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) tests under various speed and load torque conditions.
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spelling doaj-art-6e6c1bddd54e45ecb7bd82ba61c8a9612025-08-20T01:51:54ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362025-01-0113630666307510.1109/ACCESS.2025.355703210947747Robust Position Estimator for Sensorless Control of Traction Motor in Electric VehiclesMyeong-Won Kim0Issac Kim1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0908-8259Seung-Mook Baek2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1359-3453Jung-Wook Park3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1387-8969Inverter Engineering Design Team 2, Hyundai Motor Company, Hwaseong-si, South Korea2Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea3Division of Electrical, Electronic, and Control Engineering, Kongju National University, Cheonan-si, South Korea2Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, South KoreaAlthough the sensorless control of traction motor can improve the mileage, cost, and reliability of electric vehicles (EVs), its practical use remains challenging due to the vulnerability of conventional position estimator for sensorless control to severe load torque. However, this limitation can be overcome by utilizing the kinematic and dynamic sensors embedded in the latest EVs. Therefore, this study proposes a new position estimator that utilizing the total torque and speed error as the inputs by reprocessing the vehicle acceleration information to improve the robustness against the load torque. In addition, gains of proposed position estimator are determined to nullify errors that may occur during the reprocessing of information. As the results, the proposed position estimator can achieve the high estimation bandwidth, while improving the overall estimation performance. Furthermore, the practical effectiveness of proposed position estimator is verified by both the experimental tests and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) tests under various speed and load torque conditions.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10947747/Electric vehiclesensorless controlposition estimatortraction motor
spellingShingle Myeong-Won Kim
Issac Kim
Seung-Mook Baek
Jung-Wook Park
Robust Position Estimator for Sensorless Control of Traction Motor in Electric Vehicles
IEEE Access
Electric vehicle
sensorless control
position estimator
traction motor
title Robust Position Estimator for Sensorless Control of Traction Motor in Electric Vehicles
title_full Robust Position Estimator for Sensorless Control of Traction Motor in Electric Vehicles
title_fullStr Robust Position Estimator for Sensorless Control of Traction Motor in Electric Vehicles
title_full_unstemmed Robust Position Estimator for Sensorless Control of Traction Motor in Electric Vehicles
title_short Robust Position Estimator for Sensorless Control of Traction Motor in Electric Vehicles
title_sort robust position estimator for sensorless control of traction motor in electric vehicles
topic Electric vehicle
sensorless control
position estimator
traction motor
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10947747/
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