A strong robustness open-circuit fault diagnosis strategy for novel fault-tolerant electric drive system based on d-q-axis current signal

To diagnose the Open-Circuit (OC) fault in the novel fault-tolerant electric drive system, based on d-q-axis current signal, a strong robustness diagnosis strategy is proposed and investigated. Fewer independent power supplies and converters are required in the novel fault-tolerant electric drive system based on Dual-Winding Permanent Magnet Motor (DWPMM), and the system's reliability, usage ratio and power density have been improved compared to the conventional fault-tolerant motor drive system. However, the novel fault-tolerant electric drive system has the OC fault diagnostic false alarms issue when load changes suddenly or under light-load condition. And it lacks the research on the diagnostic method when the system encounters intermittent OC fault in power switches. By theory derivation, simulation and experimental verification, it can be concluded that the proposed strong robustness OC fault diagnosis strategy based on d-q-axis current signal can overcome the OC fault diagnostic false alarms issue when load changes suddenly or under light-load condition. And it can detect and locate the OC fault of single-phase winding in real time, and diagnose the intermittent OC fault of power switches. (c) 2021 Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Production and hosting by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).