Position controller

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11132006-B2
Application number	US-201816617608-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 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, includes: a position acquisition unit that acquires 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; and a vibration wave application unit that applies a vibration wave to a signal of the closed-loop control so that the operation command value vibrates at a predetermined frequency at start of the closed-loop control.

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 control comprising:
a position acquisition unit that acquires 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; and
a vibration wave application unit that applies a vibration wave to a signal of the closed-loop control so that the operation command value vibrates at a predetermined frequency at start of the closed-loop control,
wherein the vibration wave application unit applies the vibration wave to the signal of the closed-loop control in a predetermined first period after the closed-loop control is started and a second period after the first period elapses, and
wherein the vibration wave in the first period has at least one of a lower frequency or a higher amplitude than the vibration wave in the second period.

2. 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.

3. The position controller according to claim 2 , 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.

4. The position controller according to claim 2 ,
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 the start of the closed-loop control, and
wherein the vibration wave application unit applies the vibration wave to the signal of the closed-loop control at least in a period after the closed-loop control is started and before the power generation operation of the generator is started.

5. The position controller according to claim 4 ,
wherein the vibration wave application unit applies the vibration wave to the signal of the closed-loop control in an initial stage after the start of the closed-loop control and before start of the power generation operation of the generator and in a stable stage after the start of the power generation operation of the generator, and
wherein the vibration wave in the initial stage has at least one of a lower frequency or a higher amplitude than the vibration wave in the stable stage.

6. 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 control comprising:
a position acquisition unit that acquires 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 vibration wave application unit that applies a vibration wave to a signal of the closed-loop control so that the operation command value vibrates at a predetermined frequency at start of the closed-loop control; and
an oil temperature acquisition unit that acquires information on an oil temperature of the hydraulic actuator,
wherein, when it is determined that the oil temperature acquired by the oil temperature acquisition unit is lower than a reference temperature at the start of the closed-loop control, the vibration wave application unit applies the vibration wave to the signal of the closed-loop control.

7. The position controller according to claim 6 , wherein the frequency is a frequency in a high frequency region in which a drive unit of the hydraulic actuator does not cause vibration due to the vibration wave.

8. The position controller according to claim 6 , wherein the vibration wave application unit increases a frequency of the vibration wave as the oil temperature acquired by the oil temperature acquisition unit increases and/or decreases an amplitude of the vibration wave as the oil temperature increases.

9. 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 control comprising:
a position acquisition unit that acquires 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 vibration wave application unit that applies a vibration wave to a signal of the closed-loop control so that the operation command value vibrates at a predetermined frequency at start of the closed-loop control; and
a warm-up acceleration unit that outputs a drive signal to the control valve so as to reciprocate a spool of the control valve during a warm-up operation before the start of the closed-loop control,
wherein a frequency of the vibration wave of the vibration wave application unit is higher than a frequency of the drive signal of the warm-up acceleration unit.

Assignees

• Kawasaki Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

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

Classifications

• F16H61/00 Primary

  Control functions within {control units of} change-speed- or reversing-gearings for conveying rotary motion {; Control of exclusively fluid gearing, friction gearing, gearings with endless flexible members or other particular types of gearing} · CPC title

• F16H15/38

  with two members B having hollow toroid surfaces opposite to each other, the member or members A being adjustably mounted between the surfaces · CPC title

• F16H61/664

  Friction gearings · CPC title

• G05D3/12 Primary

  using feedback · CPC title

• F16H61/02

  characterised by the signals used · CPC title