Supported
by the rapid progress in power device, microprocessor
and control technologies in recent years, there has
been a rapid increase in the adoption of AC drives in
the variable speed systems of various industrial machines.
Meanwhile, the
demands placed on AC drives are becoming increasingly
severe. The fundamental demands that are common
to a large number of applications include increased
torque during start-up, low-speed operation improvements
for coping with harmonics, noise, etc.
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The
methods for solving these problems and the improvements
in performance and acceleration/deceleration characteristics
of speed-sensorless current vector control, which
we have succeeded in adapting to general use through
technical development of magnetic flux observers,
auto-tuning functions, etc., will be described in
this article. The suppression of input harmonics,
which has received much attention lately, will also
be discussed.