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Open-end winding induction machines are gaining more attention in the last years due to their attractive advantages in the industrial applications, where high reliability is required. However, despite their inherit robustness, they are subjected to various electrical or mechanical faults that can ultimately reduce the motor efficiency and later leads to full failure. This paper proposes a method of modeling the five phase induction machine with open end stator winding taking into consideration the short-circuit fault between turns.The fault modeling is based on the theory of electromagnetic coupling of electrical circuits. In addition, a sliding mode observer is used to estimate the speed rotor. The idea of proposed backstepping strategy is used in this paper to allow to the studied machine to continue its operating state under short circuit fault between turns. The proposed sensorless control strategy is evaluated in terms of the healthy and faulty performances through the simulation results presented in this paper. The obtained results prove that the proposed sensorless control technique allows to the open-end winding five phase induction machine to continue its operation mode under the specified fault of partial short-circuit of the stator winding. This can be a very practical situation in the industrial applications, especially in the case where the maintenance is not easy and the operation of the industrial process should not be interrupted suddenly. Keywordsopen-end winding topology, five phase induction motor, short-circuit fault between turns, sensorless control, sliding mode observer, backstepping control

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This paper proposes a sensorless field-oriented control (FOC) of an open-end stator winding five-phase induction motor (OESW-FPIM). The FOC technique used is associated with dual Space Vector Modulation (SVM) to provide a constant switching frequency and lower harmonics distortion. Furthermore, a simple hybrid observer is proposed which combines a model reference adaptive system (MRAS) and a sliding mode (SM) observer. The examined observer is designed for the estimation of the rotor flux and rotational speed as well as for the estimation of the load torque disturbances. Lyapunov theorem is used in this paper to prove the observer's stability. The work presented in this paper aims to enhance the researched motor's sensorless control and its robustness against external load disturbances and parameters variation. In the proposed MRAS-SM observer, the reference model is replaced by a SM model which uses a sigmoid function as a switching function to overcome the chattering problem. This combination is intended to make use of the advantages of both strategies. At the same time, to preserve the high-level performance of the sensorless FOC technique and to reduce system uncertainties, an estimation algorithm is developed to identify the rotor resistance and the stator resistance simultaneously during motor operation. The parameter estimation algorithm is combined with the proposed control to improve the speed estimation and control accuracy, particularly at low-speed operation. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed control is validated in real-time by utilizing a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) platform.INDEX TERMS Field-oriented control, five phase induction motor, parameters estimation, MRAS estimator, sensorless control, sliding mode observer.

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