Abstract: A method for controlling a battery charger for a motor vehicle, the battery charger including an input filter connecting a three-phase power supply circuit to a buck converter, a boost circuit being connected to the buck converter and to the battery. The method includes: determining an output threshold voltage of the buck converter on the basis of the difference between a battery-current measurement and a battery-current request; keeping the output voltage of the buck converter constant; and controlling switches of the boost stage to be kept open.

Abstract: A method controlling a powertrain fitted in an automobile and including an electric motor including a rotor and stator, the method including: regulation of currents of the rotor and the stator via control signals from the electric motor, wherein the currents and control signals are expressed in a rotating coordinate system and include a plurality of axes, the control signals resulting from a first transformation including a change of variable that enables dynamic decoupling between the control signals, along each of the axes of the plurality of axes; saturation of the control signals resulting from the first transformation to satisfy constraints of a battery fitted in the automobile and connected to the electric motor; and blockage of at least some of the current reference values of the regulation if the control signals are saturated.

Abstract: A method for controlling electromagnetic torque of a three-phase synchronous machine with permanent magnets, including measuring current delivered to the three phases of the machine, transposing the three measured currents into a direct current component and a quadratic current component using Park's transformation, and receiving an instruction for the quadratic current component. When the direct current component is negative, a defluxing control mode is activated in which the machine is controlled from a direct voltage component and a quadratic voltage component of the machine, the direct voltage component and the quadratic voltage component being determined in Park's plane.

Abstract: A battery charging device for a motor vehicle battery with at least partially electric traction includes a filtering stage to be connected to an electrical power supply network, a voltage buck stage connected to the filtering stage, a voltage boost stage coupled to the voltage buck stage and to be connected to the battery, and a regulation unit to impose chopping duty cycles on the voltage buck stage and on the voltage boost stage. The regulation unit compensates the harmonics generated by the voltage buck stage in the filtering stage, acting on the voltage buck stage.

Abstract: A system and method for controlling a power train of a motor vehicle having an electric motor includes regulating the currents in the rotor and stator of the electric motor so that they reach required current values using control signals of the electric motor. The currents to be regulated and the control signals being expressed in a rotating reference frame including a plurality of axes. The control signals result from a transformation including a change of variable allowing the dynamic decoupling of the regulation along each of the axes. Regulating each axis includes an application to the current to be regulated of two different linear operators as a function of the value of the current to be regulated of that axis with respect to its required value, the result of the application of the two linear operators having to be substantially equal to the control signal of that axis.

Abstract: A battery of accumulators including a plurality of power storage cells and an electrical network which connects the cells to one another. The cells are grouped together in composite cells including two identical branches each including at least one cell and the composite cells being connected in series to one another. The electrical network includes: a mechanism for parallel or connection in series of the cells of each composite cell, and a mechanism for controlling the connection mechanism, which is configured to connect the cells of each composite cell in parallel or in series to adapt an output voltage of the battery of accumulators to a desired value and to balance charging states of the cells.

Abstract: A system for controlling electromagnetic torque of an electric machine, for example for a motor vehicle. The system can control electromagnetic torque of a permanent-magnet three-phase electric machine and includes a mechanism measuring a current, a transposition mechanism configured to transpose three measured currents into a direct component and a quadratic component of current on the basis of a transform of three-phase systems, a transformation mechanism configured to convert a torque setpoint into a setpoint for the quadratic component of current and a setpoint for the direct component of current, a mechanism for determining control voltages, and a controller configured to apply the control voltages determined to the electric machine.

Abstract: A method for controlling electromagnetic torque of a three-phase synchronous machine with permanent magnets, including measuring current delivered to the three phases of the machine, transposing the three measured currents into a direct current component and a quadratic current component using Park's transformation, and receiving an instruction for the quadratic current component. When the direct current component is negative, a defluxing control mode is activated in which the machine is controlled from a direct voltage component and a quadratic voltage component of the machine, the direct voltage component and the quadratic voltage component being determined in Park's plane.

Abstract: A method for controlling a battery charger for a motor vehicle, the battery charger including an input filter connecting a three-phase power supply circuit to a buck converter, a boost circuit being connected to the buck converter and to the battery. The method includes: determining an output threshold voltage of the buck converter on the basis of the difference between a battery-current measurement and a battery-current request; keeping the output voltage of the buck converter constant; and controlling switches of the boost stage to be kept open.

Abstract: A method for controlling a power train and corresponding system. A method for controlling a power train equipping a motor vehicle and comprising an electric motor provided with a rotor and a stator, said method comprising the regulation of the currents of the rotor and the stator delivering control signals to the electric motor, said currents to be regulated and said control signals being expressed in a rotating reference system and comprising a plurality of axes. The method includes a measurement of the values of the currents of the rotor and the stator, a transformation of said measurements into said rotating reference system, a determination of minimum and maximum limits for each of the currents on the basis of said control signals, and a comparison of the measured signals with said minimum and maximum limits.

Abstract: A method of controlling charge of a battery, or of a battery of a motor vehicle, on the basis of a monophase network, in which: the input voltage is filtered; the electrical power of the network is conveyed to the battery via a voltage step-down stage and a voltage step-up stage which are coupled together via an inductive component; and an intensity of current passing through the inductive component is controlled as a function of an intensity setpoint, the intensity not being continuously controllable. The intensity setpoint is formulated to have at least a first value and at least a second value greater than the first value, the intensity setpoint having the second value before the start of a phase during which the intensity is not controllable.

Abstract: System and method for secure charging of a motor vehicle battery. Method of secure charging of the battery (3) of a motor vehicle from a network (2) estimating the resistance between the earth and the neutral of the network (2), comprising at least one injection of pulses of current into the network (2), measurements of voltage between the earth and the neutral of the network (2) in response to each pulse, and a determination of the earth resistance from the measured voltages.

Abstract: A secure system for charging a battery of a motor vehicle from a power supply network, which system is in a vehicle and includes a mechanism measuring frequency of the network, an injection mechanism injecting current pulses into the network, a mechanism measuring voltage between the ground and a neutral of the network, an analog filter filtering the measured voltages at high frequencies, a digital filter filtering the analog-filtered voltages at low frequencies, and a mechanism determining resistance between the ground and the neutral of the network on the basis of the digitally filtered voltages and an amplitude of the current pulses. The digital filter includes a mean value filter which determines a mean value based on N voltage measurements spaced apart by a time interval T+T/N, where T is the period of the network determined by the mechanism measuring the frequency of the network.

Abstract: A system and method for controlling a power train of a motor vehicle having an electric motor includes regulating the currents in the rotor and stator of the electric motor so that they reach required current values using control signals of the electric motor. The currents to be regulated and the control signals being expressed in a rotating reference frame including a plurality of axes. The control signals result from a transformation including a change of variable allowing the dynamic decoupling of the regulation along each of the axes. Regulating each axis includes an application to the current to be regulated of two different linear operators as a function of the value of the current to be regulated of that axis with respect to its required value, the result of the application of the two linear operators having to be substantially equal to the control signal of that axis.

Abstract: A method controlling a powertrain fitted in an automobile and including an electric motor including a rotor and stator, the method including: regulation of currents of the rotor and the stator via control signals from the electric motor, wherein the currents and control signals are expressed in a rotating coordinate system and include a plurality of axes, the control signals resulting from a first transformation including a change of variable that enables dynamic decoupling between the control signals, along each of the axes of the plurality of axes; saturation of the control signals resulting from the first transformation to satisfy constraints of a battery fitted in the automobile and connected to the electric motor; and blockage of at least some of the current reference values of the regulation if the control signals are saturated.