Abstract: A power conversion device includes an alternating current rotating machine having a multiple of multi-phase windings, a multiple of power conversion means that convert direct current voltage of a direct current power supply based on a multiple of switching signals and apply voltage to the multiple of multi-phase windings, first current detection means that detects a first bus current, which is current flowing between the power conversion means that applies voltage to one multi-phase windings of the multiple of multi-phase windings and the direct current power supply, and first phase current calculation means that calculates the current flowing through the one multi-phase windings based on the first bus current, wherein the first current detection means detects the first bus current at a timing at which a multiple of voltage vectors based on the multiple of switching signals neighbor or coincide.

Abstract: In a control device for an electric motor (101), a three-phase/two-phase conversion section (203) outputs N d-axis current values and N q-axis current values in each measurement period that is 1/N of a carrier period. An average value calculation section (204) calculates average values of those values. A difference calculation section (205) calculates a difference between a k-th d-axis current value and the average value of the d-axis current values as a d-axis current difference, and calculates a difference between a k-th q-axis current value and the average value of the q-axis current values as a q-axis current difference. A filtering section (206) performs low-pass filtering on each difference, and outputs d-axis and q-axis current correction values. A correction calculation section (207) performs a linear operation of each k-th current value and the corresponding current correction value, and outputs the corrected current values.

Abstract: A rotor position encoder (01) for an electronically commutated electric machine (02) having a stator and a rotor (03) and including a rotor position sensor (05) which is mounted on the stator so as to rotate therewith and has the purpose of detecting the rotational position of the rotor (03) with respect to the magnetic field of the stator, and a signal encoder (07) which is mounted on the rotor (03) so as to rotate therewith. The rotor position encoder is defined in that it has a reference encoder (08) for detecting reference values of the magnetic flux density of the rotor field, wherein the reference values (09) serve to determine an angular offset (11) between the signal encoder (07) and the position of the rotor (03). Furthermore, a method for determining an angular offset (11) between a signal encoder (07) of a rotor position encoder (01) and a rotor position of an electronically commutated electric machine (02) is provided.

Abstract: In a control apparatus for an alternating current (AC) motor, a control mode switching determiner compares a modulation rate with a modulation rate threshold, and selects between a synchronous control mode to perform synchronous control in a range where the modulation rate is equal to or greater than a modulation rate threshold and an asynchronous control mode to perform asynchronous control in a range where the modulation rate is less than the modulation rate threshold. The control mode switching determiner uses a different modulation rate threshold in a low rotational speed range and a high rotational speed range such that the modulation rate threshold in the low rotational speed range is greater than the modulation rate threshold in the high rotational speed range. A selector selects between outputting the synchronous pulse signal and outputting the asynchronous pulse signal.

Abstract: A method for controlling a permanent magnet synchronous motor having a rotor using a permanent magnet, the rotor rotating by a rotating magnetic field caused by a current flowing through an armature is provided. The method includes: presuming, based on a target speed and an estimated speed that is an estimated value of a rotational speed of the rotor, whether or not a step-out occurs; correcting, when it is presumed that a step-out occurs, an estimated angle that is an estimated value of a position of magnetic poles of the rotor; and controlling, based on a post-correction estimated angle that is the estimated angle after the correction, a current flowing through the armature to cause the rotating magnetic field rotating at the target speed.

Abstract: A motor drive device, which supplies electric power from a power element to a motor, and dissipates heat of the power element by way of a heat sink, includes a temperature detector that detects the actual temperature of the heat sink and an electric current detector that detects electric current from the power element to the motor. An actual temperature variation calculation unit calculates an actual temperature variation of the heat sink relative to time from the actual temperature, and an estimated temperature variation calculation unit calculates an estimated temperature variation of the heat sink relative to time from the estimated temperature. A temperature abnormality determination unit determines a temperature abnormality of the heat sink according to whether or not the actual temperature variation is departing from a permitted range based on the estimated temperature variation.

Abstract: A primary magnetic flux command value is changed in accordance with a torque of a rotary electric motor to control a current phase of an armature current with respect to a q axis that advances by ?/2 with respect to a d axis in phase with a field flux to be a desired phase in accordance with the torque.

Abstract: A system for preventing controller windup in an electric motor includes a limiting module that determines a limited voltage command in response to a commanded voltage exceeding an available voltage of a motor power source, the limited voltage command is applied to an electric motor, a saturation parameter module that determines a saturation parameter based on the limited voltage command, the saturation parameter indicates a magnitude of the commanded voltage exceeding the available voltage, a non-linear processing module that processes the saturation parameter to generate a processed saturation parameter, and a reference current modifier module that generates a modified current command based on the processed saturation parameter, the modified current command is applied to the control system to improve the current command tracking.

Abstract: In a motor driving system, a motor driving system is provided which simplifies the system by ceasing ON/OFF control of a commercial driving command, and by performing commercial synchronous transfer and capture control based on a drive speed reference. A system controller performs synchronization control so as to make a drive output coincident with a phase/amplitude of a commercial AC power source when a rotation speed of a motor exceeds a drive speed reference n2, and when a prescribed requirement is satisfied, the commercial AC power source is synchronously transferred, and the motor is driven by the commercial AC power source. In addition, when the drive speed reference is set to n1, and a drive output side switch is closed, the drive output is connected to the commercial AC power source, and when a prescribed requirement is satisfied, the motor is started to be driven at a variable speed (t7), and thereby the synchronous capture is performed.

Abstract: This disclosure discloses a motor driving system including a motor with an encoder and a motor driving device configured to control and drive the motor based on a motor control command. The motor driving device includes a first position detection unit configured to perform a magnetic pole position detection process for the motor to detect a position of the motor. When determining whether miswiring is present between the motor driving device and the motor, the motor driving device controls and drives the motor using a first detection result of the first position detection unit and determines miswiring of the motor based on a second detection result that is a position detection result of the motor by the encoder.

Abstract: An electric power steering apparatus includes a torque control system to calculate a current command value and a current control system to control a motor current value passing through a motor based on the current command value. A first calculation period of the torque control system is equal to or longer than a second calculation period of the current control system. The current control system includes a specific frequency band removing section that attenuates a frequency component which multiplies at least one natural number by an approximate half of a calculation frequency of the torque control system to the current command value. The specific frequency band removing section includes notch filters that set an attenuation frequency or includes the notch filters and a phase delay filter that has a cutoff frequency, which is set to a lower frequency side than a frequency which is attenuated by the notch filters.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electromechanical motor vehicle power steering mechanism for assisting steering of a motor vehicle by conferring torque generated by an electric motor to a steering mechanism. A steering controller receives at least signals representative of the vehicle velocity and the torque applied to a steering wheel and a rotor position signal to determine a target motor torque, a motor controller which receives the target motor torque from the steering controller and transfers it into target voltages expressed in a coordinate system fixed to the stator and a motor driver which transforms the target voltages into motor currents, at least one current measurement unit which measures the motor currents, wherein the mechanism further comprises a current estimation unit which estimates the target currents and a diagnostic unit which compares the estimated target currents to the measured motor currents in order to identify and remedy occurring faults.

Abstract: To include a carrier-wave generation unit to generate a first carrier wave with a frequency higher than a modulation wave, and a second carrier wave with a frequency lower than the first carrier wave, a comparison unit to compare either the first carrier wave or the second carrier wave to the modulation wave in order to generate a switching signal. The carrier-wave generation unit outputs the second carrier wave when a modulation factor is lower than a threshold value, and outputs the first carrier wave when the modulation factor is equal to or higher than the threshold value. When the modulation factor is equal to or higher than the threshold value, a power conversion unit operates in an overmodulation mode, in which the switching operation is stopped during a period longer than one cycle of the second carrier wave.

Abstract: A motor apparatus includes: an inverter arranged to drive a motor with a voltage outputted from a driving element; a rectifier circuit arranged to rectify alternating-current power to generate direct-current power to be applied to the driving element; a measuring section arranged to measure a voltage of the direct-current power; and a control circuit arranged to control the inverter in accordance with a result of a measurement by the measuring section; wherein the control circuit is arranged to vary an amplitude value of a drive signal to be applied to a base or gate of the driving element in a complementary manner in relation to a fluctuation in the voltage of the direct-current power.

Abstract: Techniques for motor magnet degradation controls and diagnostics are disclosed. An exemplary technique determines q-axis current, d-axis current, q-axis voltage, and/or d-axis voltage of a permanent magnet motor based upon sensed current and voltage information of the motor. This information is utilized to determine flux information. The flux information is utilized in evaluating collective state conditions of a plurality of motor magnets and evaluating localized state conditions of a subset of the plurality of motor magnets. The evaluations can be used to identify degradation or damage to one or more of the magnets which may occur as a result of elevated temperature conditions, physical degradation, or chemical degradation.

Abstract: An inverter control device includes an inverter main circuit, a current detector, a voltage detector that detects a DC voltage between DC bus lines, and an inverter control unit that generates PWM signals to perform on/off control of a plurality of semiconductor switching elements respectively with a DC current and a DC voltage. The unit sets a carrier period of PWM signals to be 1/N times a calculation period in which the PWM signals are generated, performs detection of a DC current detected by the current detector in a 1/2 calculation period immediately before a calculation start timing for generating PWM signals, calculates an output voltage vector based on the detected DC current, and reflects PWM signals generated from the output voltage vector in one calculation period from a 1/2 calculation period after the calculation start timing to 3/2 control calculation periods after the same.

Abstract: A motor driving apparatus including a motor including a stator and a rotor rotating in the stator, an inverter configured to supply a driving voltage to a stator coil wound on the stator so as to rotate the rotor, and a control unit configured to, when a target command value is received, change a predetermined reference start-up time point to a start-up time point corresponding to an electrical angle position of the rotor in correspondence with the target command value per rotation of the rotor and to control the inverter to supply the driving voltage at the start-up time point.

Abstract: A method of operating an electric motor is disclosed. The method includes: determining a d-axis resistance of an electric motor and a Q-axis resistance of the electric motor as a function of a bulk current; determining a d-axis inductance of the electric motor and a Q-axis inductance of the electric motor as a function of the bulk current; generating an estimated flux of the electric motor based on the d-axis resistance of the electric motor, the Q-axis resistance of the electric motor, the d-axis inductance of the electric motor, and the Q-axis inductance of the electric motor; generating an estimated angle of the electric motor based on the estimated flux of the electric motor; and, based on the estimated angle of the electric motor, controlling switching of an inverter that powers the electric motor.

Abstract: A method for determining the rotor position of a synchronous machine operated in field-oriented manner, which has an effective inductivity that is dependent on the rotor position, the motor current being acquired, and the motor voltage being set with the aid of a pulse-width-modulation method, a signal which is in synchrony with the pulse-width-modulation frequency being superimposed on the motor voltage value to be set, values of the motor current being acquired in synchrony with the pulse-width modulation frequency, a current component induced by the superimposed voltage signal and a residual current component, i.e., fundamental wave component, being determined, the current component induced by the superimposed voltage signal being used for determining an estimated rotor angle position, whose phase error in relation to the actual rotor angle position is reduced by means of a flux model, the residual current component being supplied to a current controller.

Abstract: An electric vehicle includes a motor, an ECU, and an inverter device. A motor control module of the inverter device includes: a parameter map having motor parameters stored therein; an open loop control section to generate control variables in open loop control by a voltage equation using the parameters stored in the parameter map, in response to a torque command from the ECU; a current feedback control section to perform control to eliminate a deviation relative to a command current value generated in an inverter, in response to the torque command from the ECU; and a hybrid control section to control the motor on the basis of control variables which are generated on the basis of the control variables generated by the open loop control section and control variables generated by the current feedback control section.

Abstract: A position sensor device to determine a position of a moving device comprises a detection unit to detect a signal generated by the moving device and an evaluation unit to determine a first position (?0(t1)) specifying the position of the moving device at a first time (t1). An error distance determination unit determines a velocity of the movement of the moving device and at least one error distance (?err1, ?err2, ?err3) specifying a distance by which the moving device moves on between the first time (t1) and a second time (t2) in dependence on the velocity and a propagation delay time (Tpd). A position correction unit is configured to determine a corrected position (?corr) in dependence on the at least one error distance (?err1, ?err2, ?err3) and the first position (?0(t1)).

Abstract: Provided are a power conversion device, relating to control of detecting a bus current in operation, and capable of acquiring an average current through a small amount of calculation and being implemented by an inexpensive microcomputer. A variation in a winding current flowing through a multi-phase winding of an AC rotating machine, namely, a phase current, is small at a timing at which voltage vectors on both sides of an axis having a larger inductance out of d and q axes of the AC rotating machine are output. Thus, switching signals are generated at timings at which the voltage vectors on both sides of the axis having the larger inductance out of the d and q axes are output, and the bus current is detected in accordance with the switching signals, thereby acquiring a value close to an average of the winding current.

Abstract: The method includes operating the synchronous machine in idle operation; recording a phase voltage measured value of the synchronous machine; ascertaining a phase voltage expected value by allocating stored characteristics map values for the phase voltage, for the exciting current and the recorded rotational speed of the synchronous machine; and comparing the phase voltage expected value to the phase voltage measured value. Also described is a diagnostic device for carrying out this method, as well as a corresponding computer program product.

Abstract: A method for detecting a potential (Vn) includes stator wirings in a Y connection, and automatically adjusting a relationship with a position of a rotor as a system for realizing rotor position-sensorless stable drive of an AC motor where the three-phase stator wirings are in Y connection in the stop and low-speed ranges. A synchronous motor control apparatus includes a three-phase synchronous motor in which three-phase stator wirings are in a Y connection, and an inverter for driving the motor, wherein the synchronous motor is DC-conducted thereby to move a rotor to a predetermined position, and is applied with a pulse-shaped voltage from the inverter in the moved state so that a neutral point potential as potential (Vn) of the Y connection point is acquired when the pulse voltage is applied, thereby driving the synchronous motor based on the acquired value.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for determining a rotor position of an electrically excited electrical machine by injecting voltage test signals at a plurality of space vector angles with a fundamental frequency which lies in a frequency range in which there is a difference in admittance in space vector angles; calculating resulting values of an excitation current indicator variable as Fourier coefficients of the excitation current resulting from the voltage test signal with reference to the fundamental frequency of the voltage test signal at the corresponding space vector angles; and determining the rotor position on the basis of the profile of the excitation current indicator variable.

Abstract: A control device includes: an induced voltage detection circuit that detects induced voltages which is generated in at least one coil of a brushless DC motor; a rotational position that detects the rotational position of a rotor of the brushless DC motor; an error correct circuit that calculates a first difference between a phase of the induced voltage detected by the induced voltage detection circuit and a phase of the rotational position detected by the rotational position detection circuit; a correction circuit that corrects the detected rotational position based on the first difference and outputs a corrected rotational position signal; and a drive signal generation circuit that adjusts a phase of a drive signal which is supplied to the brushless DC motor based on the corrected rotational position signal and generates the drive signal whose phase has been adjusted.

Abstract: A control system for a refrigeration system motor includes an angle determination module that generates an output rotor angle indicating a desired angle of a rotor of the motor. A control module controls the motor based on the output rotor angle. An estimator module determines an estimated rotor angle. A transition module generates a transition signal in response to convergence of the estimator module. Upon startup, the angle determination module generates the output rotor angle based on a first rotor angle. Upon generation of the transition signal, the angle determination module generates the output rotor angle based on the first rotor angle and the estimated rotor angle. After generation of the transition signal, the angle determination module reduces a contribution of the first rotor angle to the output rotor angle over time until the output rotor angle is based on the estimated rotor angle independent of the first rotor angle.

Abstract: Motor control device includes a controller controlling a motor (a calculator controller and an electric current controller), and a detector (an electric current loop) detecting an electric current of the motor and returning the detected electric current to the controller. The electric current loop includes a first detection system, a second detection system, and an electric current calculator which sums output signals from each system. Each detection system includes a sensor detecting the electric current of the motor, and a weight adjuster outputting to the electric current calculator, a detection electric current value from each sensor multiplied by a weight coefficient.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a motor driving apparatus and a controlling method thereof. The motor driving apparatus includes a motor having a rotor including a permanent magnet, and a stator, an inverter to supply a driving power to the motor, and a control unit to estimate a parameter using a startup estimation when a rotation speed of the rotor is less than a preset startup speed, to estimate the parameter using a driving estimation with compensating for a dead time when the rotation speed of the rotor is equal to or greater than the preset startup speed and a torque of the rotor is equal to or less than a preset driving torque, and to estimate the parameter using the driving estimation without the dead time compensation when the rotation speed of the rotor is equal to or greater than the preset startup speed and the torque of the rotor exceeds the preset driving torque.

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 motor drive device includes a power source unit rectifying AC voltage to DC voltage and to smooth the DC voltage by a capacitor, a motor drive amplification, a power source voltage measurement unit, an insulation resistance deterioration detection unit having a contact unit connecting one end of the capacitor to the ground and a current detection unit provided between the other end of the capacitor and a motor coil, and detecting a deterioration in an insulation resistance of the motor based on a detected signal obtained from a closed circuit formed by the contact unit, the capacitor, the motor coil, and the ground by using the current detection unit, and a failure detection unit detecting a failure in the insulation resistance deterioration detection unit based on the detected signal in the insulation resistance deterioration detection unit and a voltage value measured by the power source voltage measurement unit.

Abstract: An inverter control apparatus and a control method thereof are provided. The inverter control apparatus and a control method thereof stably operate a three-phase motor using a capacitor having a small capacitance for a DC link. The inverter control apparatus includes a current sensor to sense an output current of the inverter, a voltage sensor to sense a DC-link voltage of the inverter, and a controller to generate an average of a periodically varying rotor based q-axis current boundary value based on the output current and the DC-link voltage to generate a current reference on the basis of the average of the rotor based q-axis current boundary value, and to drive a three-phase motor based on the current reference. Stabilized variable speed control of a motor by using a small-capacitance capacitor for a DC link of an inverter is performed and reliability of an inverter circuit improved.

Abstract: An embodiment of a system for determining a sensor failure in a motor control system with at least three phase current measurements includes a magnitude computation module that determines a magnitude of a diagnostic voltage, the diagnostic voltage represented in a stator frame and based on a difference between an input voltage command and a final voltage command, and a phase evaluation module that determines a phase value of the diagnostic voltage based on the diagnostic voltage. The system also includes a sensor failure identification module that identifies a current sensor failure based on the phase value of the diagnostic voltage, the sensor failure represented by a failure signal, and a current calculation transition module that modifies a calculation scheme for determining a measurement of motor current based on the sensor failure.

Abstract: A method for controlling a permanent magnet synchronous electrical machine powered by a battery delivering a supply voltage to terminals of the battery, the method including: calculating an initial direct voltage component Vdc and an initial quadratic voltage component in a rotating reference; checking a saturation condition; calculating an angle ? of a formula; generating voltages to be applied to the electrical machine if ? varies negatively and Vdc is positive or if ? varies positively and V dc is negative. The method for example can be applied in a control of synchronous electrical machines.

Abstract: When the current flowing through each electric terminal of an AC motor 21 reaches the vicinity of zero, an operation putting the electric terminals of the AC motor 21 into an opened state, or putting an electric terminal into a conductive state via a reflux diode inside an inverter 11, is carried out. Herein, as an operation such that the current flowing through each electric terminal reaches the vicinity of zero, the electric terminals are short-circuited by all upper arm or lower arm switching elements of the inverter 11 being turned on. By so doing, a flow of electromagnetic energy of a reactance component of the AC motor 21, from the AC motor 21 into the inverter 11 side when the drive of the inverter 11 is stopped, is prevented or suppressed. As a result of this, an overvoltage or overcurrent is prevented.

Abstract: A machine learning apparatus configured to learn conditions to be associated with an excitation current command for a motor and excitation start timing provided by a motor control apparatus includes: a state observation unit that observes a state variable including at least one of data relating to magnetic flux increase lead time that may be required from timing when a start command is issued for a predetermined operation mode until the magnetic flux of the motor reaches the maximum magnetic flux corresponding to the predetermined operation mode and data relating to whether an overheat alarm indicating that the motor has overheated has been triggered or not; and a learning unit that learns conditions to be associated with an excitation current command increment and an excitation start timing adjusting amount in accordance with a training data set composed of the state variable.

Abstract: A failure diagnostic apparatus for current sensors of a 3-phase brushless AC (BLAC) motor may include: a 3-phase BLAC motor; current sensors each configured to measure a phase current of the 3-phase BLAC motor; a motor driving unit configured to drive the 3-phase BLAC motor; and a control unit configured to drive the 3-phase BLAC motor through the motor driving unit, periodically calculate a phase current error using the phase current fed back through each of the current sensors, and diagnose that a failure occurred in the current sensor of the corresponding phase, when an error count accumulated during a preset time reaches a preset value, based on the phase current error.

Abstract: A method for field-oriented control of a frequency converter for a three-phase motor includes the setting of a new position of the rotary field in the electric motor being performed by voltage pulses for the stator coils. An amplitude and the angle of the rotary field vector are specified by the duration of the voltage pulses for the respective coils and by their temporal offset. The duration and the offset of voltage pulses for the stator coils are the result of the calculation of manipulated variables in a digitally controlled process in a coordinate system fixed in respect of the rotor, depending on the prevailing angular rotation (theta) and the prevailing speed of rotation (omega) as well as on the prevailing current values, a predetermined torque and a predetermined speed of rotation.

Abstract: A motor drive device includes: a converter; a power supply; a plurality of inverter units configured to convert DC to AC to drive a plurality of motors by upper arm switching elements connected between a capacitor and motor coils and lower arm switching elements connected between the capacitor and motor coils; a second switch configured to connect the capacitor to the earth; a current detector configured to measure current flowing between the capacitor and the earth; a voltage detector configured to measure the voltage across the capacitor; and, an insulation resistance detector configured to detect insulation resistance of the multiple motors based on the current and voltage measured in a condition that the switching element to which the motor coil to be measured is connected is turned on and the switching elements to which a motor coil other than the target for measurement is connected are turned off.

Abstract: An apparatus for an electrically powered terrestrial vehicle applies electrical energy to front wheels and to rear wheels. A control system receives desired acceleration inputs and provides target torque requirements to a plurality of adaptive field-oriented motor control circuits. One or more three-phase alternating current synchronous motors receive voltage magnitude and voltage frequency to generate torque, which is applied through a reduction gear. One motor only may be powered during certain modes of operation.

Abstract: A power converter and an air conditioner having the same, in which the power converter includes a rectifying unit configured to rectify an input AC current and an interleave converter that has a plurality of converters and that is configured to convert rectified output from the rectifying unit to DC power and output the converted DC power. The power converter also includes a capacitor connected to an output terminal of the interleave converter, and a converter controller configured to control the interleave converter. The converter controller controls the interleave converter by calculating a load level of both terminals of the capacitor and changing a number of operating converters in the plurality of converters of the interleave converter based on the determined load level of both terminals of the capacitor.

Abstract: A method and system for verifying operation of a motor propulsion plant fitted to an automotive vehicle with electric or hybrid traction, the motor propulsion plant including an electric motor including a permanent-magnet rotor. The method includes: a regulation of currents of a stator and a measurement of direct and quadratic components of the currents; an application, in a model of the electric motor linking control signals to the direct and quadratic components of the currents, of a change of variable in which X=Iq3+Id3, Y=Iq?Id; determination of minimum and maximum bounds for X and Y to deduce therefrom minimum and maximum bounds for Iq and Id; and a comparison between the measured direct and quadratic components of the currents and the minimum and maximum bounds for Iq and Id.

Abstract: A method for operating an electronically commutated synchronous machine, having a stator with at least two, in particular three, phase windings and a rotor having at least one permanent magnet. A control factor is determined periodically for each phase winding. The time periods during which an upper and lower supply voltage is applied to the phase winding are determined based on the control factor. The electronically commutated synchronous machine is actuated according to space vector modulation. Zero vectors are applied to the phase windings at the beginning and/or end of a period for a switch-off duration. All switches connected to the upper supply voltage or all switches connected to the lower supply voltage are on. The selection of the zero vector is performed in accordance with the phase winding with the greatest, in magnitude, deviation from the average control factor. As disclosed is an actuation circuit and the use thereof.

Abstract: A control system for a motor in a refrigeration system includes an angle determination module configured to generate an output rotor angle indicative of a desired angle of a rotor of the motor. The control system controls current supplied to the motor based on the output rotor angle. The control system determines an estimated rotor angle of the motor. The angle determination module, upon startup of the motor, generates the output rotor angle based on a first rotor angle. Upon generation of a transition signal, the angle determination module generates the output rotor angle based on both the first rotor angle and the estimated rotor angle. Subsequent to generation of the transition signal, the angle determination module reduces a contribution of the first rotor angle to the output rotor angle over time until the output rotor angle is based on the estimated rotor angle independent of the first rotor angle.

Abstract: An inverter apparatus includes an inverter circuit, a capacitor, and a control unit. In the first control mode, the control unit shifts a phase of at least one of PWM signals of three phases such that a time period during which polarities of output voltages of three phases are the same is shorter in the first control mode than the time period in the second control mode; and controls the inverter circuit so as to supply a direct current to the three-phase AC motor as a d-axis current by outputting the PWM signals of three phases, each having a phase after the phase shift processing. In the second control mode, the control unit controls the inverter circuit so as to supply an alternating current to the three-phase AC motor by outputting the PWM signals of three phases, each having a phase before the phase shift processing.

Abstract: A self-commissioning method for estimating differential inductances in an electric machine, such as e.g. a synchronous reluctance machine or interior permanent magnet machine, with cross-magnetization effects is provided. The electric machine is driven with PWM voltages to explore current plurality of operating points of the currents in the electric machine while keeping the electric machine at standstill or quasi-standstill. At each operating point PWM switching voltage transients are used as a small-signal excitation. Currents of the electric machine are measured by means of oversampling, which permit the reconstruction of the waveforms including the current ripple within a PWM period caused by the PWM switching transients. Finally, the differential inductances at each operating point are determined based on the determined direct and quadrature current waveforms and voltages.

Abstract: An electrical drive machine for a vehicle includes a brake apparatus and a gear-selection apparatus, such that the electrical machine is designed as a current-powered synchronous machine. The vehicle includes a control unit which is associated with the current-powered synchronous machine, wherein the control unit sets a field current of the rotor based on a gear-selection position set at the gear-selection apparatus and based on a position of a brake pedal of the brake apparatus.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a rotating electric machine that has a plurality of multi-phase winding sets, each of which has a plurality of phase windings; a plurality of inverter circuits that are connected to the plurality of multi-phase winding sets respectively; and a control circuit that controls the plurality of inverter circuits such that a multi-phase alternating current is supplied to each of the plurality of multi-phase winding sets from each of the plurality of inverter circuits. The control circuit determines that a short circuit occurs when i) a plurality of phase current added values obtained by adding each phase current flowing through each of the plurality of phase windings calculated at each of the plurality of multi-phase winding sets; and ii) an absolute value of a total phase current added value obtained by adding all of the plurality of phase current added values is smaller than a predetermined value.

Abstract: A variable magnetization machine controller has a current command module, a magnetization module and a reducing current module. The current command module computes a vector current command in a dq axis based on a torque command. The magnetization module applies a magnetization control pulse to a d-axis current of the vector current command. Thus, the reducing current module applies a reducing current to a q-axis current of the vector current command based on the torque command and one of an estimated torque of the variable magnetization machine and a measured torque of the variable magnetization machine.

Abstract: To provide a brushless DC motor drive circuit operating with low electric power without a hall element, etc., and to provide a drive circuit for brushless DC motor which may be generally started regardless of an amount of load or size of inertia moment.