Position Control of Synchronous Motor Drive by Modified Adaptive Two-phase Sliding Mode Controller

A modified adaptive two-phase sliding mode controller for the synchronous motor drive that is highly robust to uncertain- ties and external disturbances is proposed in this paper.The proposed controller uses two-phase sliding mode control (SMC) where the 1st phase mainly controls the system in steady states and disturbed states-it is a smoothing phase.The 2nd phase is used mainly in the case of disturbed states.Also,it is an autotuning phase and uses a simple adaptive algorithm to tune the gain of conventional variable structure control (VSC).The modified controller is useful in position control of a permanent magnet synchronous drive.