The position sensorless Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) is widely applied in the field of high reliability, and its driver, the inverter is controlled by closed loop feedback with the three-phase current. For medium and high power PMSM, both safety isolation and detection accuracy of measuring current are extremely significant. This paper presents a method of using Current Transformer (CT) with center taps to measure the high-frequency switch current and of an algorithm to reconstruct the low-frequency three-phase current. The measurement unit and reconfiguration algorithm are then applied to the motor starting stage controlled by the DSP controller TMS320F28335. Lastly, by comparing the waveform of the reconstructed current and one of the inverter phase current, the experimental results show that the proposed reconstruction method is effective.

One of the major bottlenecks of the traditional Current Transformer Energy Harvester (CTEH) is the instable output induced by the wide-range variations of the current in transmission lines. In this work, a novel CTEH capable of generating a stable output is demonstrated by using a core fabricated with saturable magnetic material. The stable output of the CTEH is enabled by the constant voltage-time product in its saturable characteristic. The proposed CTEH is implemented with a resistive load representing the load of electronic devices. When the current in the primary side of the CTEH’s increases from 1A to 1000A, the maximum power on the load can reach about 0.5W, demonstrating the feasibility of using the CTEH with the saturable magnetic core as a quasi-stable power supply.