Control device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10320317-B2
Application number	US-201715699791-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 8, 2017
Priority date	Sep 12, 2016
Publication date	Jun 11, 2019
Grant date	Jun 11, 2019

Abstract

In a sensorless control of a motor, due to the characteristic of a response frequency, an induced voltage, a magnetic pole position estimation gain, a current control gain, and a speed control gain are closely related. An object of the invention is to enable the induced voltage and the frequency characteristic of a magnetic pole position estimation system to be clearly designed and to theoretically and quantitatively design all of the control gains necessary for the sensorless control so as to solve a problem that a method of designing those parameters cannot be established and the parameters have to be adjusted in a try and error manner. A control device has an estimator estimating an estimation induced voltage and a phase error of a motor by applying an induced-voltage observer and a controller controlling the motor on the basis of the estimation induced voltage and the phase error.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A control device comprising:
an estimator estimating an estimation induced voltage and a phase error of a motor by applying an induced-voltage observer, and
a controller controlling the motor on the basis of the estimation induced voltage and the phase error,
wherein the estimator comprises an induced-voltage observer, an induced-voltage computing unit, a phase computing unit, and a first subtractor,
wherein the induced-voltage observer estimates the estimation induced voltage and the phase error of the motor on the basis of a magnetic pole position estimation value of the motor fed back from the first subtractor, a target voltage, and a response current,
wherein the induced-voltage computing unit divides the estimation induced voltage by an induced-voltage coefficient,
wherein the phase computing unit performs integration by multiplying the phase error with an error angle integration gain, and
wherein the first subtractor obtains the magnetic pole position estimation value by subtracting a computation result of the phase computing unit from a computation result of the induced-voltage computing unit.

2. The control device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a speed computing unit calculating a rotation speed from the magnetic pole position estimation value; and
a second subtractor subtracting the rotation speed calculated by the speed computing unit from a target rotation speed,
wherein the controller controls the motor on the basis of a subtraction result of the second subtractor.

3. The control device according to claim 2 ,
wherein the controller comprises:
a speed PI controller determining a current target value determined from the difference between the target rotation speed and the rotation speed calculated by the speed computing unit;
a switching unit,
when the rotation speed calculated by the speed computing unit is larger than a predetermined threshold, setting a d-axis target current to zero and setting a q-axis target current to the current target value determined from the difference between the target rotation speed and the rotation speed obtained by the speed computing unit, and
when the rotation speed calculated by the speed computing unit is equal to or less than the predetermined threshold, setting a predetermined d-axis current at the time of a pull-in operation and setting a q-axis target current to zero;

a d-axis current PI controller determining a d-axis target voltage from the difference between a d-axis target value and a d-axis current value; and
a q-axis current PI controller determining a q-axis target voltage from the difference between a q-axis target value and a q-axis current value.

4. The control device according to claim 3 ,
wherein the predetermined d-axis current at the time of the pull-in operation is a q-axis current value when the rotation speed calculated by the speed computing unit becomes equal to or less than the predetermined threshold.

5. The control device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a PWM controller having an inverter and driving the motor by a pulse wave of a duty ratio on the basis of the target voltage, and
a dead time compensator performing a negative feedback control on the PWM controller on the target voltage so that an output voltage of the inverter matches an instruction voltage without a lag.

Assignees

• Renesas Electronics Corp

Inventors

• Yamasaki Reiji
• Ono Yutaka

Classifications

• H02P21/18

  Estimation of position or speed · CPC title

• H02P21/13 Primary

  Observer control, e.g. using Luenberger observers or Kalman filters · CPC title

• H02P21/0021

  using different modes of control depending on a parameter, e.g. the speed · CPC title

• H02P2203/11

  Determination or estimation of the rotor position or other motor parameters based on the analysis of high-frequency signals · CPC title

• H02P21/16 Primary

  Estimation of constants, e.g. the rotor time constant · CPC title