Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method of controlling an inverter to reduce noise in an eco-friendly vehicle. In the method, at least one of a current motor torque and a current motor speed is monitored in real-time. It is determined whether or not the at least one of the current motor torque and the current motor speed corresponds to a noise occurrence range set to a current switching frequency. A changed switching frequency value corresponding to the at least one of the current motor torque and the current motor speed is calculated when the at least one of the current motor torque and the current motor speed corresponds to the noise occurrence range. A PWM signal is generated using the changed switching frequency value to control an inverter.

Abstract: A control apparatus includes, a first calculating unit which calculates first d-phase and q-phase current limit candidate values, a second calculating unit which calculates second d-phase and q-phase current limit candidate values, a q-phase unit which, when the absolute value of the first d-phase current limit candidate value is smaller than that of the second d-phase current limit candidate value, sets the first q-phase current limit candidate value as a q-phase current limit value, but otherwise sets the second q-phase current limit candidate value as the q-phase current limit value, and a d-phase unit which, when the absolute value of the first d-phase current limit candidate value is smaller than that of the second d-phase current limit candidate value, sets the first d-phase current limit candidate value as a d-phase current limit value, but otherwise sets the second d-phase current limit candidate value as the d-phase current limit value.

Abstract: A MG-ECU is provided in a hybrid vehicle having an MG and an engine and starts the engine by controlling the MG. When the MG-ECU detects a disconnection in any one of three-phase power supply wires, which supply the MG with power, the MG-ECU permits driving of the MG on condition that the engine is requested to be started. The MG-ECU limits a command torque for the MG is limited to be equal to or less than a predetermined torque value than in a case of presence of no disconnection, when the MG is permitted to be driven.

Abstract: During displacement of an actuating element to a target position, a brushless direct-current motor is driven by a driving commutation pattern derived from rotor position signals. After the target position is reached the brushless direct-current motor is transferred to a holding mode in which it is driven by a commutation pattern providing a required holding torque. In the holding mode the holding current necessary for providing the required holding torque is minimized by an iterative holding current reduction method to a holding current value guaranteeing the required holding torque.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for controlling a permanent magnet synchronous motor to maximize use of voltages of a battery by voltage phase control within weak magnetic flux area and to achieve compensation for a torque error through a torque compensator when driving the permanent magnet synchronous motor for hybrid vehicles. In particular, the method controls a permanent magnet synchronous motor so that voltage use can be maximized in a weak magnetic flux area by using voltage near maximum voltage through voltage phase control utilizing magnetic flux-based map data receiving a torque command and motor speed/batter output voltage as inputs and torque error can be compensated using a torque compensation filter when a motor constant is changed in the weak magnetic flux by a circumstance parameter, when the permanent magnet synchronous motor mounted in a hybrid vehicle and an electric vehicle is driven.

Abstract: An electric motor includes a magnet rotor which is placed with an air gap interposed between it and a stator and has a magnetic pole portion formed from a plastic magnet which swells by hydrogen bonds, an inverter circuit, a DC-voltage conversion portion, a driving logic control portion, a supply current value control portion, a current value designation portion, a reference current value designation portion, and a correlation designation portion, wherein the correlation designation portion determines an average current value by changing the average current value linearly or non-linearly with respect to a reference current value, and the magnetic pole portion absorbs moisture to swell, thereby making the air gap smaller, at higher humidity than a reference humidity.

Abstract: A system includes a motor, an inverter bridge, a voltage detection circuit, and a controller. The motor has a stator and a rotor. The inverter bridge is configured to provide a voltage to the stator, and includes a first switch connected in a series-type relationship with a second switch, a first diode coupled across the first switch, and a second diode coupled across the second switch. The voltage detection circuit is configured to detect a back EMF voltage in the winding. The controller is configured to control the first switch and the second switch to drive the motor, and to receive an indication of the back EMF voltage in the winding from the voltage detection circuit. The controller is also configured to determine a fault has occurred, and to drive one of the first switch and the second switch when a fault has occurred.

Abstract: The present invention includes a voltage applying step of applying an applied voltage including a DC component and a plurality of frequency components to a PM motor, a motor current detecting step of detecting a motor current flowing depending on the applied voltage, and a current control gain adjusting step of calculating a current control gain based on frequency characteristics of the applied voltage and the motor current. In this manner, a stable current control gain having a high current response can be adjusted within a short period of time.

Abstract: A method of controlling a brushless motor that includes rectifying an alternating voltage to provide a rectified voltage having a ripple of at least 50%, exciting a winding of the motor with the rectified voltage, and performing a first process or a second process in response to current in the winding exceeding a threshold that is proportional to the rectified voltage. The first process includes freewheeling the winding, while the second process includes continuing to excite the winding for an overrun period and freewheeling the winding at the end of the overrun period. Additionally, a control system that implements the method, and a motor system that incorporates the control system.

Abstract: This disclosure is drawn to methods, systems, devices and/or apparatus related to power control in applications over long cables. Specifically, the disclosed methods, systems, devices and/or apparatus relate to power control that considers the maximum power available at the end of a long cable (or from a battery) to a load over a broad range of load conditions. Some example systems may include a power supply located at the Earth's surface and a power converter coupled to the power supply via a cable having a first end coupled to the power supply and a second end coupled to the power converter. Some example power converters may be configured to measure the power being consumed by the electrical load in the well, and adjust operating parameter(s) of the electrical load based, at least in part, on the maximum power available at the second end of the cable.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for compensating offset of a current sensor detecting a motor current supplied by an inverter for PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) control of a motor, the apparatus including a current controller providing a PWM signal generated based on the motor current detected by the current sensor to the inverter, calculating an offset using the motor current detected by the current sensor in response to presence and absence of the PWM control of the motor, or offset-compensating the motor current detected by the current sensor.

Abstract: Input-output linearization (IOL) and extended state observer (ESO) techniques are applied to a Field Oriented Control (FOC) for Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (PMSM). In one such approach, at least one gain value is determined based at least in part on a given bandwidth value. Operating parameters for the motor are determined based on the at least one gain value and information from a current sensor regarding motor current. Control signals used to the control the motor are determined based on the determined operating parameters. Accordingly, automated control can be effected through setting a bandwidth value through the implementation of IOL and ESO techniques.

Abstract: Provided are a motor controller for suppressing a torque pulsation with a simple configuration and obtaining a sufficient output torque in the case of an open-type fault occurring in any one of windings of a motor and inverters, and an electric power steering device using the motor controller. In the motor controller for controlling a current supplied from and a voltage applied from a power source with respect to the motor including winding sets of a plurality of systems, when a fault determination unit (31) determines the occurrence of the open-type fault, the supply of the currents to the windings of one of the systems in which the fault has occurred is stopped by control performed on switching elements included in the inverter of the faulty system, whereas the supply of the currents to the windings of the normal system in which the fault has not occurred is continued.

Abstract: An electric power steering system includes short-circuit determination means for determining whether a short-circuit between an energization failure phase and one of the two phases other than the energization failure phase has occurred while assist force is being generated using the two phases other than the energization failure phase as energization phases. When the short-circuit determination means determines that the short-circuit has occurred, generation of the assist force is stopped.

Abstract: An electric motor system includes a motor configured to produce a torque signal in response to a torque command. The torque signal has a fundamental frequency component, a first ripple harmonic and a second ripple harmonic. The first ripple harmonic is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency component. The second ripple harmonic is an integer multiple of the first ripple harmonic. A system and method is provided to generate a ripple reduction signal in response to the torque command that simultaneously cancels the first and the second ripple harmonic in the torque signal. The second ripple harmonic may be canceled with the first ripple harmonic by being projected onto the first ripple harmonic through a transformation matrix.

Abstract: A motor control device includes a control condition storage unit storing at least one of a control condition defined by an equivalent voltage supplied to a three-phase motor and a control condition defined by relationship between the equivalent voltage supplied to the three-phase motor and a frequency of PWM signal, a control condition extracting unit extracting the control condition from the control condition storage unit in response to a temperature of a viscous fluid supplied by a pump having the three-phase motor as a power source, and a PWM controlling unit controlling a switching element included in an inverter circuit based on a PWM signal related to the extracted control condition when the three-phase motor is started.

Abstract: A control device includes a PWM control unit that executes PWM control over an alternating-current motor mounted on a vehicle. The PWM control unit includes an alarm sound generation processing unit that executes an alarm sound generating process of generating an alarm sound from the motor for informing a pedestrian, or the like, of the approach of the vehicle by intentionally varying phase current flowing through the motor by periodically adding a variation value (?V) to a d-axis voltage command value (Vd) at a predetermined interval. At the time of executing the alarm sound generating process, the alarm sound generation processing unit adjusts the variation value (?V) such that the d-axis voltage command value (Vda) resulting from the alarm sound generating process (the sum of Vd and ?V) falls within a range in which it is possible to suppress occurrence of an overcurrent in the motor.

Abstract: In a method for reducing the starting current of a multi-phase machine operated by block commutation, which includes a battery, one high side switch for each phase, a low side switch and a phase winding as well as a rotor, the high side switch assigned to one current phase or the low side switch assigned to one current phase is held in the closed state, and the low side switches or the high side switches assigned to the other current phases are alternately controlled.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for controlling an IPMSM, the apparatus according to exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure including a first generating unit generating a q-axis reference voltage of a synchronous reference frame from a reference frequency, a current converter generating a current of the synchronous reference frame from a 3-phase current of the IPMSM, and a voltage controller generating a d-axis reference voltage compensating a voltage in response to a load change.

Abstract: A three-phase permanent magnet motor is controlled by generating two-phase control signals. A rotation speed value is generated representing a rotation speed of the permanent magnet motor based on a q-current reference value and a q-current feedback value, the q-current reference value and the q-current feedback value corresponding to a q-phase winding. A d-phase voltage change value is generated based on a d-current reference value and a d-current feedback value, the d-current reference value and the d-current feedback value corresponding to the d-phase winding. A first d-phase voltage value is generated based on the rotation speed value, the d-phase voltage change value, the d-current reference value and the q-current reference value. A first q-phase voltage value is generated based on the rotation speed value, the q-current reference value and the d-current reference value.

Abstract: The present invention relates to control of synchronous machines. A sensorless control system for an electrical machine is provided comprising a rotor and a stator having one or more phase windings for generating a rotating stator magnetic field. The current in the phase windings is monitored to determine real and imaginary components of the current vector in a rotating reference frame, from which real and imaginary components of the emf vector rotating in the rotating reference frame can also be determined. The ratio of the real and imaginary emf components is calculated, and an angular position of the rotational emf vector is estimated from this ratio. An angular error signal indicative of the deviation of the estimated angular position from a desired position in line with the real axis of the rotating reference frame is determined, and the machine is controlled such that the error signal tends towards zero.

Abstract: A controller for a conventional synchronous motor is configured to produce desired output characteristics. The controller generates a drive current for based on a current command, has a motor correcting section and a gain adjusting section which output a compensated current command based on the current command according to a compensating transfer function for cancelling a first transfer function showing a first torque response characteristic of the synchronous motor and replacing it with a second transfer function showing a second torque response characteristic, and a current controller which generates a drive current corresponding to the compensated current command.

Abstract: A method for positioning a brushless electric drive comprising a stator that has at least one phase winding to which a voltage signal can be applied, and a rotor equipped with magnetic poles. In the method, a voltage signal is applied to the at least one phase winding, the voltage signal generates a magnetic field as a result of the current flowing in the phase winding. The magnetic field putting the rotor into alignment, and as long as the rotor is in motion, the voltage signal is modified in accordance with the intensity of the current induced in the at least one phase winding by the moving rotor, in such a way that the induced current is increased.

Abstract: Provided are rotational position detection means detecting the rotational position of a multiplex-winding rotary machine; failure determination means determining failure of the rotational position detection means; control means calculating a voltage instruction for each winding group, based on the rotational position detected by the rotational position detection means; and voltage application means applying voltage to each winding group, based on the voltage instruction. According to the failure determination by the failure determination means, the control means outputs a voltage instruction for rotational position estimation to the voltage application means, and estimates the rotational position ?e, based on at least one of voltage and current obtained from the winding group in accordance with the voltage instruction.

Abstract: In a control device for a three-phase rotating machine with first and second winding sets, a current feedback computing section includes a current sum controller and a current difference controller. The current sum controller multiplies, by a sum gain, an error between a sum of current command values for alternating currents output from first and second inverters and a sum of sensed current values and computes a sum of voltage command values. The current difference controller multiplies, by a difference gain, an error between a difference of the current command values and a difference between the sensed current values, and computes a difference of voltage command values. In a variable-responsiveness mode, a gain ratio between the sum gain and the difference gain is varied according to a reference frequency such that the current sum controller and the current different controller are different in responsiveness.

Abstract: There are provided an apparatus and a method for controlling a motor. The apparatus for controlling a motor includes a signal generation unit generating a first signal indicating position information of a rotor, a counter unit sampling the first signal with a second signal different from the first signal for one period to count a sampling frequency, a memory unit storing a section counter value and an error value obtained by sampling a period immediately prior to the first signal with the second signal, and a comparison unit increasing and reducing an output signal when the sampling frequency counted by the counter unit coincides with the section counter value, wherein the comparison unit sums the sampling frequencies corresponding to error values with the sampling frequency of the first signal before the counter unit ends the sampling of one period of the first signal.

Abstract: Provided is an actuator control apparatus including: an observer configured to estimate a state of a load based on a state equation including at least one modeled load parameter; a controller which outputs a signal for controlling the load; a compensation unit which compensates for the signal output from the controller; and an estimator configured to estimate a change of a load parameter, to decide a gain of the compensation unit based on the estimated change of the load parameter, and to update the modeled load parameter.

Abstract: There are provided a circuit and a method for detecting a duty ratio of a PWM signal. The circuit includes: a counting unit counting a PWM signal; a detection indication determining unit determining whether a detection indication signal indicating a start of detection of the duty ratio of the PWM signal has been input; an edge detecting unit detecting a preset PWM edge of the PWM signal; and a duty calculating unit calculating the duty ratio of the PWM signal using a count value during a section from a k-th point in time (T(k)) (k being a natural number of 1 or more) at which the PWM edge is detected after it is determined that the detection indication signal has been input to a k+1-th point in time (T(k+1)) at which the PWM edge is detected after it is subsequently determined that the detection indication signal has been input.

Abstract: A load control device to control current flow to an AC load includes a circuit having line-side switches and floating-neutral side switches, along with a controller connected to the circuit that is programmed to control the circuit so as to cause each of the line-side switches and each of the floating-neutral side switches to switch between an On condition or an Off condition to selectively operate the circuit in an active mode and a free-wheeling mode. A full phase voltage is provided to the AC load during the active mode and a zero voltage is provided to the AC load during the free-wheeling mode. The controller applies a modulating function to the circuit, so as to modulate a supply voltage to control a frequency and an average of a load voltage present across terminals of the AC load, thereby enabling variable frequency operation of the AC load.

Abstract: A method for ascertaining the rotor temperature of a permanent-magnet synchronous machine (10), in which a first estimate (TR1) for the rotor temperature is ascertained as a function of a remanent flux density of permanent magnets contained in a rotor of the synchronous machine (10). A second estimate (TR2) for the rotor temperature is ascertained via a Kalman filter containing a thermal model of the synchronous machine (10), the first estimate (TR1) for the rotor temperature being supplied at least intermittently to the Kalman filter.

Abstract: A method of controlling a brushless permanent-magnet motor that includes rectifying an alternating voltage to provide a rectified voltage having a ripple of at least 50%, and exciting a winding of the motor with the rectified voltage. The winding is excited in advance of zero-crossings of back EMF by an advance period and is excited for a conduction period over each electrical half-cycle of the motor. The advance period and/or the conduction period are then adjusted in response to changes in the speed of the motor and/or the RMS value of the alternating voltage so as to maintain constant average power. Additionally, a control system that implements the method, and a motor system that incorporates the control system.

Abstract: A method of controlling a brushless motor that includes rectifying an alternating voltage to provide a rectified voltage, exciting a winding of the motor with the rectified voltage and freewheeling the winding when current in the winding exceeds a threshold. The winding is freewheeled for a freewheel period, which is updated in response to a zero-crossing in the alternating voltage. Additionally, a control system that implements the method, and a motor system that incorporates the control system.

Abstract: A method for driving a brushless direct current (DC) motor is provided. The brushless DC motor has a first phase that is coupled between a first terminal and a common node, a second phase that is coupled between a second terminal and the common node, and a third phase that is coupled between a third terminal and the common node. The first and second phases are coupled to a first supply rail and a second supply rail, respectively, such that the brushless DC motor is in a first commutation state. The first phase is then decoupled from the first supply rail so as to allow first terminal to float during a window period. A first voltage difference between the first terminal and the second terminal is compared to a second voltage difference between the third terminal and the second terminal during the window period, and the brushless DC motor is commuted to a second commutation state if the first voltage difference is approximately equal to the second voltage difference.

Abstract: A power tool includes a brushless motor, a switching element, a power cable a rectifying device, a heat releasing member. The switching element controls a drive of the brushless motor. The power cable supplies an electric current to the brushless motor from power source. The rectifying device rectifies the electric current from the power cable. The heat releasing member is connected to the switching element and the rectifying device in order to enhance a cooling efficiency for the same.

Abstract: A system and method of controlling an electric motor using a motor controller are provided. The system includes an electric motor controller configured to be coupled to an electric motor and to control the electric motor to produce approximately constant average torque. The controller includes a rectifier configured to convert an AC input voltage to a pulsing DC voltage, a DC link electrically coupled to the rectifier, an inverter electrically coupled to the DC link and configured to generate a three phase AC voltage to drive the electric motor, and a controller configured to receive a measurement of a motor current value for the motor, estimate a torque generated in the electric motor using the measurement of the instantaneous motor current value, and generate a real-time current demand signal using the estimated torque value, the real-time current demand signal compensating the motor controller to produce a substantially constant average motor output torque.

Abstract: An apparatus or method which accepts a burst of pulses at a frequency which may not be tightly controlled and converts this into a trajectory command that is a suitable motion profile for an incremental motor control application. The output of the invention can be a pulse stream that can be fed to an existing incremental pulse input motor drive or the invention can be embedded into a motor drive where its output is a numerical sequence that defines a physically realizable trajectory to be fed to the control circuits and software within the motor drive.

Abstract: A motor includes a rotor, a sensor unit, an offset unit, a rectification unit and a modulating unit. The sensor unit outputs a first signal in accordance with a magnetic field variation of the rotor. The offset unit is coupled to the sensor unit, and outputs a second signal in accordance with the first signal. The rectification unit is coupled to the offset unit, and outputs a third signal in accordance with the second signal. The modulating unit is coupled to the rectification unit, and outputs a control signal in accordance with a result by comparing the third signal with a periodic signal. The modulating unit controls a reverse rotation of the rotor smoothly in accordance with the control signal. A control method of the motor is also disclosed.

Abstract: In various implementations, a condition of a motor may be monitored based at least partially on time required to achieve a change in speed. A notification may be transmitted based on the condition of the motor.

Abstract: Three-phase resolver signals that are output from a resolver upon reception of an excitation signal are captured by a microcomputer. The microcomputer computes a rotation angle of an electric motor on the basis of the three-phase resolver signals. The ratio between an excitation period of the excitation signal and a capturing period of each of the three-phase resolver signals is set to 8:5. A computation period of the rotation angle is set to half of the least common multiple of the excitation period of the excitation signal and the capturing period of each resolver signal.

Abstract: An apparatus for estimating rotor time constant of induction motor, the apparatus being such that d-axis and q-axis current commands are received to output q-axis voltage command, to output q-axis voltage estimate, to output a changed value of rotor time constant, which is a difference between the q-axis voltage command and the q-axis voltage estimate, and to add the changed value of the rotor time constant to a rotor time constant, whereby the changed rotor time constant is outputted.

Abstract: A converter unit having at least one output. The at least one output is configured to be connected to a coil of an asynchronous machine. The converter unit is configured to provide several voltage levels at the at least one output.

Abstract: A method of controlling a brushless motor. The method includes measuring a temperature of the motor, adjusting a control value in the event that the measured temperature is lower than a threshold, and exciting a winding of the motor. The control value is then used to define an attribute of excitation, and the adjustment to the control value reduces the input power of the motor.

Abstract: A disclosed motor driver control device is configured to control a plurality of switching devices that drive a motor. The motor driver control device includes a duty control unit configured to restrict a duty of a first pulse width modulation signal generated by comparing an oscillator signal generated at a predetermined cycle and a pulse generator signal so as to generate a second pulse width modulation signal, and a switching device control signal generator unit configured to include a logic circuit that operates the second pulse width modulation signal as a clock and configured to generate a switching device control signal controlling the plurality of switching devices based on the clock of the logic circuit of the switching device control signal generator unit.

Abstract: An example apparatus includes a controller configured to control operation of a salient-type, multiphase motor in accordance with a technique including periodic on and off-times, the motor including a stator and a rotor. The controller is configured to calculate or receive values representing changes in current to the motor during the respective on and off-times or measurements proportional thereto, and calculate an inductance of the motor as a function of the values and a supply voltage to the motor. And the controller is configured to determine a position of the rotor based on the inductance of the motor, and control operation of the motor based on the position of the rotor.

Abstract: A method for determining a direction of rotation for an electronically commutated motor (ECM) is described. The motor is configured to rotate a blower and the method comprises rotating the blower using the ECM and determining if the resulting blower rotation is indicative of the desired direction of rotation for the blower.

Abstract: A fault tolerant electrical machine including: a plurality of phases; a detector arranged to detect a fault in at least one of the phases; and a controller arranged to intentionally cause a fault in at least one other of the phases such that the vector sum of the second harmonic power vectors of the remaining phases is zero.

Abstract: A circuit structure applied to a motor and enabling upgraded MOS transistor heat dissipation ability is disclosed. The circuit structure includes a motor driving unit and a signal processing unit. The signal processing unit is connected to the motor driving unit for maintaining a first and a third switch of the motor driving unit at a constant turn-on voltage and boosting turn-on voltages of a second and a fourth switch of the motor driving unit, so as to effectively upgrade the heat dissipation ability of the first, second, third and fourth switches.

Abstract: An actuator control device includes an upper-level control unit that sets an upper-level target value of a predetermined control factor relating to driving an actuator, a lower level control unit, and an intermediate control unit. The lower-level control unit has a command input element that receives an input of the upper-level target value and outputs a lower-level target value of the predetermined control factor, an actuator control element that receives an input of the lower-level target value and controls the actuator, and a tracking element that causes an actual value of the predetermined control factor in the actuator to track the lower-level target value. The intermediate control unit causes the actual value of the predetermined control factor in the actuator to track the upper-level target value. The upper-level target value is inputted into the command input element of the lower-level control unit via the intermediate control unit.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes measuring between two consecutive electrical commutations of a brushless direct-current (BLDC) motor a current through the BLDC motor. One or more pulse-width-modulation (PWM)-configurable signals are driving the BLDC motor. The method includes determining a waveform of the current through the BLDC motor; if the waveform of the current through the BLDC motor comprises a first type, then increasing a duty cycle of each of one or more of the PWM-configurable signals driving the BLDC motor; and, if the waveform of the current through the BLDC motor comprises a second type, then decreasing a time interval between electrical communications of the BLDC motor.

Abstract: A compact field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based digital motor controller (102), a method, and a design structure are provided. The compact FPGA-based digital motor controller (102) includes a sensor interface (206) configured to receive sensor data from one or more sensors (104) and generate conditioned sensor data. The one or more sensors (104) provide position information for a DC brushless motor (108). The compact FPGA-based digital motor controller (102) also includes a commutation control (210) configured to create switching commands to control commutation for the DC brushless motor (108). The commutation control (210) generates commutation pulses from the conditioned sensor data of the sensor interface (206). The compact FPGA-based digital motor controller (102) also includes a time inverter (208) configured to receive the commutation pulses.