Abstract: The present invention provides an initial pole position estimating apparatus and method for an AC synchronous motor without using magnetic pole detector. The initial pole position estimating apparatus includes a thrust force or torque pattern generating portion for generating a thrust force or torque pattern, a pole position command generating portion for generating a pole position command, and a position detecting portion for detecting a position of the AC synchronous motor. The initial pole position estimating apparatus can estimate an initial pole position in a short time with high precision without depending on a fluctuation in a load. The initial pole position estimating apparatus further includes a pole position correcting portion (8) for correcting the pole position command and a thrust force or torque pattern correcting portion (9) for correcting the thrust force or torque pattern, and an initial pole position is estimated through a repetitive correction.

Abstract: An alternating-current motor control apparatus includes an inverter unit, a current-command divider, a current controller, a torque-variation calculator, and a phase angle generator. The inverter unit is configured to output a command voltage to an alternating-current motor. The current-command divider is configured to divide a command current amplitude into command current components based on a phase-angle command value that is a sum of the phase angle and an alternating current signal. The current controller is configured to control current to match a motor current flowing through the motor with the command current components. The torque-variation calculator is configured to calculate a motor electric power based on the command voltage and either the motor current or the command current components and to calculate a torque variation based on the motor electric power. The phase angle generator is configured to generate a phase angle based on the torque variation.

Abstract: An alternating-current motor control apparatus includes a voltage controller configured to output a command voltage vector so that the command voltage vector is time-averaged for time periods, a square-wave voltage generator configured to control, every time period, amplitudes and phases of voltages to be applied to an alternating-current motor, a current detector configured to detect motor currents at a timing synchronized with periods 1/N-th of the time periods, where N is equal to or larger than one, a coordinate transformation section configured to perform coordinate transformation to transform the motor currents into two-phase currents, an envelope extractor configured to extract two-phase currents as waveforms having amplitudes that periodically change from the two-phase currents, and extract envelopes of the waveforms, and a magnetic-pole-position computing section configured to compute a magnetic-pole position using the envelopes.

Abstract: An inverter control apparatus includes: a state estimator that calculates an estimated current vector and an estimated magnetic flux vector from a motor command voltage vector, a detected current vector, and a motor parameter; a correction voltage calculator that calculates a correction voltage vector on the basis of a current error between the detected current vector and the estimated current vector; and a correction voltage unit that adds the correction voltage vector to the motor command voltage vector.

Abstract: A control device includes a slip calculator that calculates a first slip frequency of an induction motor, a current detector that detects motor current that passes through the induction motor, an adder that calculates a primary frequency by adding a speed command and a second slip frequency that are given, a command voltage generation unit that generates first command voltage from the primary frequency, a voltage error observer unit that estimates a command voltage error from the first command voltage and the motor current, a slip correction unit that calculates a slip correction amount from the command voltage error, an adder that calculates the second slip frequency by adding the first slip frequency and the slip correction amount, and a voltage error correction unit that corrects the first command voltage using the command voltage error and outputs second command voltage.

Abstract: An alternating-current motor control apparatus includes a stator frequency computing unit configured to compute a stator frequency of a motor magnetic flux; a torque error computing unit configured to compute a torque error by using the motor magnetic flux, an estimated current, and a motor current; and a speed estimator configured to estimate a speed of the alternating-current motor by using the stator frequency and the torque error. The speed estimator includes a proportional controller configured to reduce the torque error to zero, and an adaptive filter configured to eliminate a high-frequency component of the torque error.

Abstract: The present invention provides an initial pole position estimating apparatus and method for an AC synchronous motor without using magnetic pole detector. The initial pole position estimating apparatus includes a thrust force or torque pattern generating portion for generating a thrust force or torque pattern, a pole position command generating portion for generating a pole position command, and a position detecting portion for detecting a position of the AC synchronous motor. The initial pole position estimating apparatus can estimate an initial pole position in a short time with high precision without depending on a fluctuation in a load. The initial pole position estimating apparatus further includes a pole position correcting portion (8) for correcting the pole position command and a thrust force or torque pattern correcting portion (9) for correcting the thrust force or torque pattern, and an initial pole position is estimated through a repetitive correction.

Abstract: A control device is provided for a synchronous motor, which drives the synchronous motor through a voltage operated PWM inverter and controls a torque and a speed of the motor, including a unit for causing a PWM carrier signal to have an arbitrary phase difference between two phases such UV, VW, or WU in three phases of U, V, and W, a unit for extracting a high frequency voltage and a high frequency current, which are thus generated from a detecting voltage or a command voltage and a detecting current, and a unit for estimating a position of a magnetic flux or position of a magnetic pole by using the high frequency voltage and the high frequency current which are excited.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a control device for a synchronous motor which can detect the position of a magnetic pole from a zero speed without requiring a signal generator. The invention provides a control device for a synchronous motor which drives the synchronous motor through a voltage-operated PWM inverter and controls a torque and a speed of the motor, including means (6-3) for causing a PWM carrier signal to have an arbitrary phase difference between two phases such as UW, VW or WU in three phases of U, V and W, means (11) for extracting a high frequency voltage and a high frequency current which are thus generated from a detecting voltage or a command voltage and a detecting current, and means (12) for estimating a position of a magnetic flux or a position of a magnetic pole by using the high frequency voltage and the high frequency current which are extracted.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a method which can detect a magnetic pole position easily and surely by using high-frequency currents such as harmonics of an inverter output and carrier frequency components. The invention provides a method of detecting a magnetic pole position of a motor and an apparatus for detecting a magnetic pole position in which, although high-frequency currents of carrier frequency components or the like are used, a special current detecting circuit is not required, and synchronization between the current detection timing and the position calculation can be easily attained, and also to provide an apparatus for controlling a motor using the same.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide an apparatus for estimating a magnetic pole position of a motor in which the amplitudes of high-frequency currents can be adjusted. In the invention, a controlling apparatus for driving a motor (1-1) by a voltage source PWM inverter (1-2), and controlling a torque and speed, or torque, speed, and position of the motor has: means for switching over first means for producing an arbitrary phase difference in PWM carrier signals between respective two phases such as UV, VW, or WU of three or UVW phases, and second means for causing the phase difference between two phases such as V, VW, or WU of three or UVW phases to become zero; means for extracting high-frequency currents in a same frequency band as carrier signals generated by it, from estimated currents; and means (1-4) for estimating a magnetic pole position by using the extracted high-frequency currents.

Abstract: A speed control apparatus having a high frequency generator for superposing a high frequency signal on an estimated magnetic flux axis. A high frequency component extractor extracts an error signal of a magnetic flux position from a voltage or current detection signal having the same frequency component as a frequency component of the high frequency signal. A magnetic flux observer estimates a magnitude and a position of a magnetic flux. A first adaptive regulator adaptively regulates an error signal on a high frequency superposing side. A second adaptive regulator adaptively regulates an error signal on a magnetic flux observer side. A hybrid device switches the first adaptive regulator at a very low speed, the first and second adaptive regulators at a low speed and the second adaptive regulator at a high speed. A speed estimator estimates a speed from an output of the hybrid device.

Abstract: A method of measuring a motor constant is provided in a vector control apparatus for an induction motor. A voltage output phase ?v is set at a previously set arbitrary phase. Prior to applying a current, a current command is fed to operate the vector control apparatus with a proportional-plus-integral controller being set operative. After conduction for a predetermined time, the gain of the proportional-plus-integral controller is set to zero to maintain an integrated value constant and accordingly fix a voltage command value. In this state, a current command value and a detected current value are measured. This measurement is performed at two levels of current, and a primary resistance value (or a line-to-line resistance value) is derived from the slope.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide an apparatus for estimating a magnetic pole position of a motor in which the amplitudes of high-frequency currents can be adjusted. In the invention, a controlling apparatus for driving a motor (1-1) by a voltage source PWM inverter (1-2), and controlling a torque and speed, or torque, speed, and position of the motor has: means for switching over first means for producing an arbitrary phase difference in PWM carrier signals between respective two phases such as UV, VW, or WU of three or UVW phases, and second means for causing the phase difference between two phases such as V, VW, or WU of three or UVW phases to become zero; means for extracting high-frequency currents in a same frequency band as carrier signals generated by it, from estimated currents; and means (1-4) for estimating a magnetic pole position by using the extracted high-frequency currents.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a sensorless control apparatus of an AC motor which can carry out a stable control within all driving ranges including a region having a zero speed and a zero output frequency.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a method which can detect a magnetic pole position easily and surely by using high-frequency currents such as harmonics of an inverter output and carrier frequency components.

Abstract: A electric motor control device is provided for controlling an electric motor which actuates a movable member of a machine through a transmitting mechanism. When a torque command is given as motion command signal (9) to servo device (3), servo device (3) sends input torque signal (12) corresponding to motion command signal (9) to electric motor (5), which is energized. Movable member (7) is thus moved, producing vibrations. Servo device (3) outputs input torque signal (11) equivalent to input torque signal (12), and input torque signal (11) and rotational speed signal (10) are stored in memory device (2). Analyzing device (1) analyzes the frequencies of input torque signal (11) and rotational speed signal (10) according to an FFT, and outputs analytical result (14).

Abstract: The invention has an object to provide a magnetic pole position estimating method and a control apparatus for a synchronous motor which reliably detect the position of a magnetic pole of the synchronous motor to carry out stable control also when a high load is applied or a load is suddenly changed. A coordinate transformer (8) transforms a detected current value is into an impedance observation axis positioned in a place shifted from an estimated magnetic pole position &thgr;{circumflex over ( )} by 45 degrees. A high-frequency impedance estimator (10) estimates high-frequency impedances Zdm and Zqm on two points which are advanced and delayed by an electrical angle of 45 degrees from a &ggr;-axis. A first magnetic pole position estimator (13) estimates a first magnetic pole position estimated value &thgr;{circumflex over ( )} to eliminate a deviation between the high-frequency impedances Zdm and Zqm.

Abstract: A method of measuring a motor constant is provided in a vector control apparatus for an induction motor. A voltage output phase &thgr;v is set at an previously set arbitrary phase. Prior to applying a current, a current command is fed to operate the vector control apparatus with a proportional-plus-integral controller being set operative. After conduction for a predetermined time, the gain of the proportional-plus-integral controller is set to zero to maintain an integrated value constant and accordingly fix a voltage command value. In this state, a current command value and a detected current value are measured. k is measured at two levels of current, and a primary resistance value (or a line-to-line resistance value) is derived from the slope.

Abstract: The invention has an object to provide a magnetic pole position estimating method and a control apparatus for a synchronous motor which reliably detect the position of a magnetic pole of the synchronous motor to carry out stable control also when a high load is applied or a load is suddenly changed. A coordinate transformer (8) transforms a detected current value is into an impedance observation axis positioned in a place shifted from an estimated magnetic pole position &thgr;{circumflex over ( )} by 45 degrees. A high-frequency impedance estimator (10) estimates high-frequency impedances Zdm and Zqm on two points which are advanced and delayed by an electrical angle of 45 degrees from a &ggr;-axis. A first magnetic pole position estimator (13) estimates a first magnetic pole position estimated value &thgr;{circumflex over ( )} to eliminate a deviation between the high-frequency impedances Zdm and Zqm.