Derivative-free square-root cubature Kalman filter for non-linear brushless DC motors

作者：Potnuru Devendra; Chandra Kumar Pakki Bharani^*; Arasaratnam Ienkaran; Gu Da Wei; Mary Karlapudy Alice; Ch Sai Babu

来源：IET Electric Power Applications, 2016, 10(5): 419-429.

DOI：10.1049/iet-epa.2015.0414

• Kalman filters
• brushless DC motors
• nonlinear estimation
• electric drives
• rotors
• nonlinear systems
• velocity control
• machine control
• derivative-free square-root cubature Kalman filter
• nonlinear brushless direct current motor
• nonlinear square-root estimation scheme
• BLDC motor
• nonlinear filter
• electric drive state estimation
• square-root CKF
• rotor position estimation
• nonlinear system
• feedback control
• speed control

This paper presents a non-linear square-root estimation scheme for brushless DC (BLDC) motors. The cubature Kalman filter (CKF) is the main estimation tool for the presented approach. The CKF is a recently proposed estimator for highly non-linear systems and its efficacy has been verified on several applications. The square-root version of the CKF is preferred over the conventional CKF for real-time applications. Despite of having several advantages over other non-linear filters, the CKF has not yet been explored for state estimation of electric drives in the electric drives community. In this study, the authors present a square-root CKF for the speed and rotor position estimation of a highly non-linear and high fidelity BLDC motor, these estimated speed and rotor position are then fed back to control the speed of the BLDC motor. The efficacy of the presented approach for low and high reference speeds, and in the presence of parametric uncertainties, is demonstrated by real-time experiments.

• 出版日期2016-5