Motor control system and motor control method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10658960-B2
Application number	US-201616327607-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 21, 2016
Priority date	Sep 21, 2016
Publication date	May 19, 2020
Grant date	May 19, 2020

Abstract

Disclosed are a motor control system and a motor control method that allow the balance of evaluation values in a trade-off relationship to be easily adjusted. The motor control system includes: an inverter (5) that applies AC voltage to a motor (1); a control unit (3, 4) that generates a voltage command for AC voltage in response to a control command; and a feedback unit (6, 7, 8) that applies a correction value to the control unit. The feedback unit estimates a plurality of evaluation values from a state quantity using a plurality of regression formulas, where at least one state quantity (x1, x2) of the motor is an input variable and a plurality of evaluation values (y1, y2) of the motor or a motor-driven object (2) are output variables, calculates an evaluation function with the estimated plurality of evaluation values as arguments, and generates a correction command on the basis of a calculation value resulting from the evaluation function.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A motor control system comprising:
an inverter that applies AC voltage to a motor;
a control unit that generates a voltage command for the AC voltage in response to a control command; and
a feedback unit that gives, to the control unit, a correction command for changing the voltage command,
wherein the feedback unit:
estimates a plurality of evaluation values of the motor or an object to be driven by the motor from at least one state quantity of the motor by using a plurality of regression formulas, in which the state quantity is an input variable and the plurality of evaluation values are output variables;
calculates an evaluation function with the estimated plurality of evaluation values as arguments; and
generates the correction command based on a calculation value resulting from the evaluation function.

2. The motor control system according to claim 1 , wherein
the plurality of evaluation values is in a trade-off relationship.

3. The motor control system according to claim 1 , wherein
the feedback unit includes a regression formula update unit that obtains the plurality of regression formulas.

4. The motor control system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a display device that displays the state quantity and the plurality of evaluation values.

5. The motor control system according to claim 3 , wherein
the regression formula update unit performs regression analysis by using a simulation model with the state quantity as an input variable and the plurality of evaluation values as output variables, to obtain the regression formulas.

6. The motor control system according to claim 1 , wherein
the object to be driven is a compressor,
the state quantities are current and rotational speed of the motor,
the plurality of evaluation values are power consumption of the motor and vibrational amplitude of the compressor,
the control command is a motor current command, and
the correction command is a correction command for the motor current command.

7. The motor control system according to claim 6 , wherein
the correction command for the motor current command is generated by use of a numerical expression or a table with a rotation angle of the motor as an argument.

8. The motor control system according to claim 6 , wherein
the correction command for the motor current command periodically changes with respect to a rotation angle of the motor.

9. The motor control system according to claim 8 , wherein
a calculation period for generating the correction command for the motor current command is equal to a period of torque pulsation of the compressor.

10. The motor control system according to claim 1 , wherein
the object to be driven is an elevator that includes a car,
the state quantities are current and rotational speed of the motor,
the plurality of evaluation values are power consumption of the motor and arrival time for the car to arrive at a destination floor,
the control command is a position command for the car, and
the correction command is a correction command for gain in the control unit.

11. The motor control system according to claim 10 , wherein
the correction command for the gain is generated by use of a numerical expression or a table with a position of the car as an argument.

12. The motor control system according to claim 1 , wherein
the object to be driven is a winder,
the state quantities are current and rotational speed of the motor,
the plurality of evaluation values are operation time of the winder and a defect generation rate of an object to be wound,
the control command is a torque command for the motor, and
the correction command is a correction command for gain in the control unit.

13. The motor control system according to claim 12 , wherein
the correction command for the gain is generated by use of a numerical expression or a table with torque of the motor as an argument.

14. A motor control method for applying AC voltage to a motor in response to a voltage command, comprising:
estimating a plurality of evaluation values of the motor or an object to be driven by the motor from at least one state quantity of the motor by using a plurality of regression formulas, in which the state quantity is an input variable and the plurality of evaluation values are output variables;
calculating an evaluation function with the estimated plurality of evaluation values as arguments; and
changing the voltage command based on a calculation value resulting from the evaluation function.

Assignees

• Hitachi Ltd

Inventors

• Sumita Satoshi
• Iwaji Yoshitaka

Classifications

• H02P21/13 Primary

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

• H02P27/12

  pulsing by guiding the flux vector, current vector or voltage vector on a circle or a closed curve, e.g. for direct torque control · CPC title

• H02P27/06

  using DC to AC converters or inverters (H02P27/05 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B65H54/02

  Winding and traversing material on to reels, bobbins, tubes, or like package cores or formers · CPC title

• B66B1/308

  with AC powered elevator drive · CPC title