Paper Title
Sensorless Control Of BLDC Motor Using Third Harmonic Back EMF
Abstract
This paper presents particular methods for deployment of the sensorless Permanent Magnet Brushless DC (PM
BLDC) motor drive system. The typical trapezoidal waveform of the motor internal voltages (or back emf) contains a
fundamental and higher order frequency harmonics. In particular, the third harmonic component is extracted from the stator
phase voltages while the fundamental and other polyphase components are eliminated via a simple summation of the three
phase voltages. The resulting third harmonic signal keeps a constant phase relationship with the rotor flux for any motor
speed and load condition, and is practically free of noise that can be introduced by the inverter switching, making this a
robust sensing method. In contrast with indirect sensing methods based on detection of the back-emf signal that require
heavy filtering, the third harmonic signal needs only a small amount of filtering to eliminate the switching frequency and its
side bands.