Position controller

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11131380-B2
Application number	US-201816617594-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 16, 2018
Priority date	May 31, 2017
Publication date	Sep 28, 2021
Grant date	Sep 28, 2021

Abstract

A position controller includes: an oil temperature acquisition unit that acquires information on an oil temperature of a hydraulic actuator; a position acquisition unit that acquires an actual value of an operation position of an object; a position control unit that calculates an operation command value for a control valve of the hydraulic actuator by closed-loop control so as to reduce a deviation between a target value of the operation position of the object and the actual value; and a gain setting unit that changes at least one gain of the closed-loop control so that sensitivity of the closed-loop control increases as the oil temperature decreases.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A position controller that performs position control by outputting a drive signal to a control valve of a hydraulic actuator that changes an operation position of an object, the position controller comprising:
an oil temperature acquisition unit that acquires information on an oil temperature of the hydraulic actuator;
a position acquisition unit that estimates an actual value of an operation position of the object;
a position control unit that calculates an operation command value for the control valve by closed-loop control so as to reduce a deviation between a target value of the operation position of the object and the actual value;

a gain setting unit that changes at least one gain of the closed-loop control so that sensitivity of the closed-loop control increases as the oil temperature decreases; and
a position subtraction unit that obtains the deviation,
wherein the at least one gain includes a first gain used to obtain the operation command value from the deviation,
wherein the gain setting unit increases the first gain as the oil temperature decreases,
wherein the first gain is a calculation gain of the position control unit,
wherein the at least one gain includes a second gain used to obtain the actual value input to the position subtraction unit, and
wherein the gain setting unit decreases the second gain as the oil temperature decreases.

2. The position controller according to claim 1 ,
wherein the position acquisition unit is a position estimation unit that estimates the actual value of the operation position of the object, and
wherein the second gain includes sensitivity of an internal model of the position estimation unit.

3. The position controller according to claim 1 , wherein the object is a transmission element that changes a transmission ratio of a continuously variable transmission in accordance with a position change thereof.

4. The position controller according to claim 3 , wherein the continuously variable transmission is a toroidal continuously variable transmission that changes the transmission ratio in accordance with a tilt angle of a power roller, and the transmission element is the power roller.

5. The position controller according to claim 4 ,
wherein power output from the continuously variable transmission is input to a generator, and the generator starts a power generation operation with a delay from start of the closed-loop control, and
wherein the gain adjustment is performed at least in a period after the closed-loop control is started and before the power generation operation of the generator is started.

6. The position controller according to claim 1 , wherein the gain setting unit performs correction so that an absolute value of a change rate of the gain with respect to a change in the oil temperature increases when an opening degree of the control valve is in a second opening-degree region smaller than a first opening-degree region as compared to that when the opening degree of the control valve is in the first opening-degree region.

7. A position controller that performs position control by outputting a drive signal to a control valve of a hydraulic actuator that changes an operating position of a transmission element so as to change a transmission ratio of a continuously variable transmission, the position controller comprising:
an oil temperature acquisition unit that acquires information of an oil temperature of the hydraulic actuator;
an actual transmission ratio acquisition unit that acquires an actual value of the transmission ratio;
a position acquisition unit that estimates an actual value of an operation position of the transmission element;
a target position calculation unit that calculate a target value of the operating position of the transmission element by first closed-loop control so as to reduce a deviation between a command value of the transmission ratio and the actual value of the transmission ratio;
a position control unit that calculates an operation command value for the control valve by second closed-loop control so as to reduce a deviation between the target value of the operation position of the transmission element and the actual value of the operation position of the transmission element; and
a gain setting unit that changes a gain of the first closed-loop control so that sensitivity of the first closed-loop control decreases as the oil temperature decreases.

8. The position controller according to claim 7 , wherein the continuously variable transmission is a toroidal continuously variable transmission that changes the transmission ratio in accordance with a tilt angle of a power roller, and the transmission element is the power roller.

9. The position controller according to claim 8 ,
wherein power output from the continuously variable transmission is input to a generator, and the generator starts a power generation operation with a delay from start of the second closed-loop control, and
wherein the gain adjustment is performed at least in a period after the second closed-loop control is started and before the power generation operation of the generator is started.

10. The position controller according to claim 7 , wherein the gain setting unit performs correction so that an absolute value of a change rate of the gain with respect to a change in the oil temperature decreases when an opening degree of the control valve is in a second opening-degree region smaller than a first opening-degree region as compared to that when the opening degree of the control valve is in the first opening-degree region.

Assignees

• Kawasaki Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Kobayashi Shuma
• Matsuda Kippei
• Ootsuki Satoshi
• Nakashima Kenichi
• Imai Hideyuki
• Abe Akihito

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