Performance of sensorless control of permanent magnet synchronous generator in wind turbine system

The paper presents a sensorless control of permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) in a variable-speed wind energy conversion system. The system of wind turbine consists of PMSG and back-to-back power converter. The back-to-back converter system is composed of machine side converter (MSC) and grid side converter (GSC). In the control of MSC and GSC the methods of vector control have been applied. For operation of MSC the method of Rotor Field Oriented Control (RFOC) with MPPT algorithm has been used. For estimation of angular rotor position and angular speed the flux linkage estimator with synchronous frame phase locked loop (SF-PLL) has been used. In the control of GSC the method of Voltage Oriented Control (VOC) has been considered. Simulation studies have been carried out in order to evaluate the system of sensorless strategy. The results of simulation studies demonstrate the high efficiency and high accuracy of the sensorless control system considered