A Robust Linear Field-Oriented Voltage Control for the Induction Motor: Experimental Results

A field-oriented armature-input-voltage output-feedback control approach is proposed for the robust linear controller design on an induction motor. The scheme simultaneously solves an angular-velocity reference-trajectory tracking task and a flux magnitude regulation in the presence of arbitrary time-varying load torques and unknown nonlinearities. The field-oriented input-voltage scheme is combined with linear high-gain asymptotic observers, of the generalized proportional-integral type, and linear active-disturbance-rejection output-feedback controllers. The linear observers online estimate, in a simultaneous manner, the output phase variables and the lumped effects of the following: 1) unknown time-varying load torques and unmodeled frictions and 2) rather complex state-dependent nonlinearities present in the electric and magnetic circuits. The field-oriented part of the scheme uses the classical flux observer or simulator. The proposed control laws naturally decouple, while linearizing, the extended second-order dynamics for the angular velocity and the squared flux magnitude. The proposed control scheme is here tested on an experimental induction motor setup.