Motor control device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10720868-B2
Application number	US-201916354212-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 15, 2019
Priority date	Jul 3, 2018
Publication date	Jul 21, 2020
Grant date	Jul 21, 2020

Abstract

Provided is a motor control device having a function of estimating inductance and resistance of a motor for which inductance and resistance thereof are unknown. The motor control device includes a power converter, a current controller which calculates the voltage command input to the power converter using a detection result of a current value of a drive current of the motor, a current command generation unit which specifies a frequency for motor constant calculation on the basis of an electrical time constant of the motor, generates a sine wave of the frequency for motor constant calculation, and inputs the sine wave to the current controller as the current command, and a motor constant calculation unit which obtains a frequency response while the sine wave is input to the current controller as the current command, and calculates resistance and inductance of the motor from the obtained frequency response.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A motor control device which controls a motor, comprising:
a power converter which applies a voltage to the motor according to a voltage command input to the power converter;
a current controller which calculates the voltage command input to the power converter using a detection result of a current value of a drive current of the motor so that a current value specified by a current command input to the current controller coincides with the current value of the drive current of the motor;
a current command generation unit which specifies a frequency for motor constant calculation on basis of an electrical time constant of the motor, generates a sine wave of the frequency for motor constant calculation, and inputs the sine wave to the current controller as a current command; and
a motor constant calculation unit which obtains a frequency response in which the voltage command and the current value of the drive current of the motor are an input and an output, respectively, while the sine wave is input to the current controller by the current command generation unit as the current command, and calculates resistance and inductance of the motor from the obtained frequency response,
wherein the current command generation unit specifies the reciprocal of the electrical time constant of the motor as the frequency for motor constant calculation.

2. The motor control device according to claim 1 , wherein the current command generation unit causes a frequency band of a current control loop including the power converter and the current controller to be lower than the frequency for motor constant calculation, then generates the sine wave of the frequency for motor constant calculation, and inputs the sine wave to the current controller as the current command.

3. The motor control device according to claim 1 , wherein
the current command generation unit inputs a plurality of sine waves of the frequency for motor constant calculation having different amplitudes from each other one by one to the current controller as the current command, and
the motor constant calculation unit calculates the resistance and inductance of the motor for each of the plurality of sine waves.

4. The motor control device according to claim 2 , wherein
the current command generation unit inputs a plurality of sine waves of the frequency for motor constant calculation having different amplitudes from each other one by one to the current controller as the current command, and
the motor constant calculation unit calculates the resistance and inductance of the motor for each of the plurality of sine waves.

5. The motor control device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an estimator which obtains the frequency response with the voltage command and the current value of the drive current of the motor as an input and an output, respectively, within a predetermined frequency range when the current command which causes a voltage equal to or lower than a specified voltage which has been predetermined as a voltage at which a current does not excessively flow to the motor to be applied to the motor regardless of specifications of the motor is input to the current controller, and estimates the electrical time constant of the motor from the obtained frequency response,
wherein the current command generation unit specifies the frequency for motor constant calculation on the basis of the electrical time constant of the motor estimated by the estimator.

6. The motor control device according to claim 2 , further comprising:
an estimator which obtains the frequency response with the voltage command and the current value of the drive current of the motor as an input and an output, respectively, within a predetermined frequency range when the current command which causes a voltage equal to or lower than a specified voltage which has been predetermined as a voltage at which a current does not excessively flow to the motor to be applied to the motor regardless of specifications of the motor is input to the current controller, and estimates the electrical time constant of the motor from the obtained frequency response,
wherein the current command generation unit specifies the frequency for motor constant calculation on the basis of the electrical time constant of the motor estimated by the estimator.

7. The motor control device according to claim 3 , further comprising:
an estimator which obtains the frequency response with the voltage command and the current value of the drive current of the motor as an input and an output, respectively, within a predetermined frequency range when the current command which causes a voltage equal to or lower than a specified voltage which has been predetermined as a voltage at which a current does not excessively flow to the motor to be applied to the motor regardless of specifications of the motor is input to the current controller, and estimates the electrical time constant of the motor from the obtained frequency response,
wherein the current command generation unit specifies the frequency for motor constant calculation on the basis of the electrical time constant of the motor estimated by the estimator.

Assignees

• Omron Tateisi Electronics Co

Inventors

• Tanaka Masahito
• Ono Yasushi

Classifications

• H02P21/16 Primary

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

• H02P23/14 Primary

  Estimation or adaptation of motor parameters, e.g. rotor time constant, flux, speed, current or voltage · CPC title

• H02P21/18

  Estimation of position or speed · CPC title

• H02P21/22

  Current control, e.g. using a current control loop · CPC title