Design of ANFIS Estimator of Permanent Magnet Brushless DC Motor Position for PV Pumping System

This paper presents a new scheme for PMBLDC (permanent magnet brushless direct current) rotor position estimation based an ANFIS (adaptive network fuzzy inference system) estimator. The operation of such motor requires accurate rotor position knowledge. However, most of rotor position sensors produce undesirable effects such as mechanical losses and have other disadvantages. In order to overcome the disadvantages, sensorless scheme seems to offer great advantages. This work present an ANFIS estimator design. Combining the adaptive capability of the neural network to gather with the reasoning ability of the fuzzy logic in ANFIS modeling results in a fast responding and flexible model. This procedure lends itself perfectly adapted for complex system such as PV pumping systems.