Method for controlling tone of electric vehicle based on motor vibration

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11718183-B2
Application number	US-202017029805-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 23, 2020
Priority date	Jun 4, 2020
Publication date	Aug 8, 2023
Grant date	Aug 8, 2023

Abstract

A method for controlling a tone of an electric vehicle (EV) based on motor vibration may include: calculating an order component from a vibration signal of an EV motor of an electric vehicle, extracting a first order component with the greatest linearity for motor output torque among the calculated order component, then calculating an order frequency by transforming revolutions per minute (RPM) of the EV motor into frequency, setting an EV mode tone by applying a vibration level of the first order component to a level of the order frequency to be output and rearranging the order component, and outputting the set EV mode tone, and may apply an LMS filter algorithm, FFT/IFFT transforms, and an order tracking algorithm in extracting the first order component.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for controlling a tone of an electric vehicle (EV) based on motor vibration, the method comprising:
calculating, by a signal processing controller, an order component from a vibration signal of a EV motor;
extracting, by the signal processing controller, an N th order component with the greatest linearity for motor output torque among the calculated order component;
calculating, by the signal processing controller, an order frequency by transforming revolutions per minute (RPM) of the EV motor into a frequency; and
setting, by the signal processing controller, an EV mode tone by applying a vibration level of the N th order component to a level of the order frequency to be output and rearranging the order component;
wherein the extraction of the N th order component includes extracting the first order component with a determination coefficient (R 2 ) greater than or equal to 90 percent.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the calculation of the order component includes:
calculating the order component from a vibration sensor configured to sense the vibration signal of the EV motor.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the method further comprises:
sweeping frequencies, by the vibration sensor, when a highest amplitude is detected.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the vibration sensor is a knocking sensor.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
outputting the set EV mode tone; and
adjusting, by the vibration sensor signal processing controller, an output volume by applying a frequency band pass filter based on the RPM of the EV motor before the outputting.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
outputting the set EV mode tone; and
adjusting an output volume by assigning a weighting value to the RPM of the EV motor before the outputting.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
outputting the set EV mode tone; and
adjusting an output volume by assigning a weighting value to the pedal position before the outputting.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
outputting the set EV mode tone; and
adjusting an output volume by calculating a differential change value of vehicle speed before the outputting.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
selecting the order component according to a change in a traveling mode, wherein the traveling mode comprises a power saving mode, a general mode, and a sport mode; and
using the selected order component when setting the EV mode tone.

10. A method for controlling a tone of an electric vehicle (EV) based on motor vibration, the method comprising:
calculating, by a vibration sensor signal processing controller, an order component from a vibration signal of a EV motor;
extracting, by the vibration sensor signal processing controller, an N th order component with the greatest linearity for motor output torque among the calculated order component;
calculating, by the vibration sensor signal processing controller, an order frequency by transforming revolutions per minute (RPM) of the EV motor into a frequency;
setting, by the vibration sensor signal processing controller, an EV mode tone by applying a vibration level of the N th order component to a level of the order frequency to be output and rearranging the order component; and
outputting the set EV mode tone,
wherein the extracting of the N th order component comprises:
extracting the N th order component by updating a weighting value when the vibration signal is recirculated using an LMS filter algorithm for the vibration signal to cause the level of the N th order component to converge to 0.

11. A method for controlling a tone of an electric vehicle (EV) based on motor vibration, the method comprising:
calculating, by a vibration sensor signal processing controller, an order component from a vibration signal of a EV motor;
extracting, by the vibration sensor signal processing controller, a N th order component with the greatest linearity for motor output torque among the calculated order component;
calculating, by the vibration sensor signal processing controller, an order frequency by transforming revolutions per minute (RPM) of the EV motor into a frequency;
setting, by the vibration sensor signal processing controller, an EV mode tone by applying a vibration level of the N th order component to a level of the order frequency to be output and rearranging the order component; and
outputting the set EV mode tone,
wherein the extracting of the N th order component comprises:
extracting the N th order component through:
performing Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) for the vibration signal;
performing resampling through a Non-equispaced Fast Fourier Transform (NFFT); and
performing an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT).

12. A method for controlling a tone of an electric vehicle (EV) based on motor vibration, the method comprising:
calculating, by a vibration sensor signal processing controller, an order component from a vibration signal of a EV motor;
extracting, by the vibration sensor signal processing controller, an N th order component with the greatest linearity for motor output torque among the calculated order component;
calculating, by the vibration sensor signal processing controller, an order frequency by transforming revolutions per minute (RPM) of the EV motor into a frequency;
setting, by the vibration sensor signal processing controller, an EV mode tone by applying a vibration level of the N th order component to a level of the order frequency to be output and rearranging the order component; and
outputting the set EV mode tone,
wherein the extracting of the N th order component comprises:
extracting the N th order component using order tracking analysis for the EV motor and an RPM-based band pass filter.

13. The method of claim 10 , wherein the method further comprises:
sweeping frequencies, by a vibration sensor, when a highest amplitude is detected.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the vibration sensor is a knocking sensor.

15. The method of claim 10 , wherein the method further comprises:
adjusting, by an external amplifier signal processing controller, an output volume by applying a frequency band pass filter based on the RPM of the EV motor before the outputting.

16. The method of claim 10 , wherein the method further comprises:
adjusting, by an external amplifier signal processing controller, an output volume by assigning a weighting value to the RPM of the EV motor before the outputting.

17. The method of claim 10 , wherein the method further comprises:
adjusting, by an external amplifier signal processing controller, an output volume by assigning a weighting value to the pedal position before the outputting.

18. The method of claim 10 , wherein the method further comprises:
adjusting, by an external amplifier signal processing controller, an output volume by calculating a differential change value of vehicle speed before the outputting.

19. The method of claim 10 , wherein the method further comprises:
selecting the order component according to a change in a traveling mode, wherein the traveling mode comprises a power saving mode, a general mode, and a sport mode; and
using the selected order component when setting the EV mode tone.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Kia Motors Corp

Inventors

• Lee Dong-Chul
• Jung In-Soo

Classifications

• B60L15/20 Primary

  for control of the vehicle or its driving motor to achieve a desired performance, e.g. speed, torque, programmed variation of speed · CPC title

• G10K15/04

  Sound-producing devices (G10K15/02 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H03G3/3005

  in amplifiers suitable for low-frequencies, e.g. audio amplifiers (H03G3/32, H03G3/34 take precedence) · CPC title

• H04R3/04 Primary

  for correcting frequency response · CPC title

• B60L2250/26

  by pedal actuation · CPC title