Barrero, FedericoBermúdez Guzmán, MarioArahal, Manuel R.González Prieto, Ignacio2025-07-182025-07-182025Barrero, F., Bermúdez Guzmán, M., Arahal, M.R. y González Prieto, I. (2025). Predictive Current Control of a Five-Phase Drive Using a Lead-Pursuit Strategy and Virtual Voltage Vectors. Applied Sciences, 15 (10), 5604. https://doi.org/10.3390/app15105604.2076-3417https://hdl.handle.net/11441/175441This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).Modern electric machines are attracting the greatest interest from the research community due to their current increasing number of applications, including electric vehicles and wind power generators. Their use requires the development of complex regulators, where predictive controllers appear as interesting and viable alternatives in recent research works. Although these controllers have an easy formulation and high flexibility to incorporate different control objectives in multidimensional systems, they have limitations that require attention and limit their application: a high computational cost and current harmonic content. This work presents a novel controller that focuses on these limitations, where the additional degree of freedom introduced in the predictive controller through the lead-pursuit guidance law concept is combined with the use of virtual voltage vectors to reduce the harmonic content in a controlled drive. The effectiveness of the proposed controller is explored using a five-phase drive and several figures of merit, such as the root mean square error in current tracking, the total harmonic distortion in the stator currents, and the number of switching commutations per cycle. Different predictive controllers are compared with the proposal in terms of speed regulation, stator current control, and steady-state performance, where the results obtained are analyzed to show the interest, improvements, and limitations of the proposal.application/pdf15 p.engAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Electrical drivesFive-phase driveVirtual voltage vectorsStator current predictive controlPredictive Current Control of a Five-Phase Drive Using a Lead-Pursuit Strategy and Virtual Voltage Vectorsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://doi.org/10.3390/app15105604