Active Front Steering system controls steering gear ratio electrically. For embodiment of this function electric motor is used and it is needed to control position and speed of motor. Because of cost, position feedback comes from physical sensor, such...
Active Front Steering system controls steering gear ratio electrically. For embodiment of this function electric motor is used and it is needed to control position and speed of motor. Because of cost, position feedback comes from physical sensor, such as incremental encoder, but motor rpm is calculated from position signal of sensor. Generally, motor speed is calculated by the number of pulses which are counted in the sampling period. This method, is called M-method, can not calculate speed at lower rpm. And motor speed fluctuates at steady state by using low-resolution position sensor. In this paper, speed estimator was implemented using state observer. Simulation using SIMULINK and the experimentation show that the estimator has continuous speed signal from low to high rpm.