Combined Speed and Current Terminal Sliding Mode Control With Nonlinear Disturbance Observer for PMSM Drive

A terminal sliding mode control (SMC) method based on nonlinear disturbance observer is investigated to realize the speed and the current tracking control for the permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drive system in this paper. The proposed method adopts the speed-current single-loop control structure instead of the traditional cascade control in the vector control of the PMSM. First, considering the nonlinear and the coupling characteristic, a single-loop terminal sliding mode controller is designed for PMSM drive system through feedback linearization technology. 

This method can make the motor speed and current reach the reference value in finite time, which can realize the fast transient response. Although the SMC is less sensitive to parameter uncertainties and external disturbance, it may produce a large switching gain, which may cause the undesired chattering. Meanwhile, the SMC cannot keep the property of invariance in the presence of unmatched uncertainties. Then, a nonlinear disturbance observer is proposed to the estimate the lump disturbance, which is used in the feed-forward compensation control. Thus, a composite control scheme is developed for the PMSM drive system.

Keywords: PMSM drive, Terminal Sliding Mode Control, feedback linearization, nonlinear disturbance observer.