In order to amend the performance deficiencies of the traditional direct torque control ( DTC) , especial-ly at low speeds , where there are some shortcomings such as stator flux distortion , large stator current harmonics and electromagnetic torque ripple , a novel model denoted as nonlinear autoregressive moving average ( NARMA) model based on wavelet neural networks ( WNN) is presented.According to the Akaike's final prediction error (FPE) criterion, the optimum number of wavelets to be used in the WNN model is selected .The WNN has so strong learning ability as to be trained well to identi...