Two Active Fault-Tolerant Control Schemes of Induction-Motor Drive in EV or HEV

In this paper, two active fault-tolerant control (AFTC) schemes dedicated to induction-motor drives in electric or hybrid vehicle powertrains are presented and compared. Fault detection and mitigation are merged to propose a robust algorithm against speed-sensor faults (fault is modeled as significant additional noise or an exponential type emulating a bias) leading to uncertainties in the measurement. The first architecture is a hybrid fault tolerant-control (FTC) with proportional-integral and H-infinity controllers; the second architecture is the generalized internal model control (GIMC) with a natural reconfiguration. Both are built to ensure resilience while keeping good dynamic performances. For each architecture, the speed-sensor fault detection is based on an extended Kalman filter (EKF) that generates a residual vector. The correction method is calculated differently for the two schemes specifically in the switching transition phase between the nominal and robust controllers. A comparative study is carried out between the two FTC schemes.