Motor control system and power steering system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11952057-B2
Application number	US-201916970382-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 13, 2019
Priority date	Feb 20, 2018
Publication date	Apr 9, 2024
Grant date	Apr 9, 2024

Abstract

A motor control system includes an inverter, a voltage control calculating a voltage command value indicating a voltage to be applied to a motor from the inverter based on a deviation between the current command value and the actual current detection value, and a torque ripple compensation unit adding a compensation value for compensating a torque ripple in the motor to a signal value on an upstream side in a signal flow that passes through the voltage control unit. The torque ripple compensation unit includes a phase compensator calculating a compensation value component in the voltage control unit based on an actual angular velocity value indicating an angular velocity at which the motor rotates, and an inverse characteristic processor calculating a compensation value component for compensating the torque ripple based on an inverse characteristic of an open loop transfer function in a feedback control.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A motor control system for driving a motor having a phase number n of three or more, comprising:
an inverter that drives the motor; and
a control calculation unit that calculates a current command value indicating a current to be supplied to the motor from the inverter on the basis of a target current command value given from the outside as a control target of the motor, and feeds back an actual current detection value indicating a current supplied to the motor from the inverter to the current command value to feedback-control the inverter, wherein
the control calculation unit includes
a voltage control calculation unit that calculates a voltage command value indicating a voltage to be applied to the motor from the inverter on the basis of a current deviation between the current command value and the actual current detection value,
a torque ripple compensation calculation unit that adds a compensation value for compensating a torque ripple in the motor to a signal value on an upstream side in a signal flow that passes through the voltage control calculation unit, and

the torque ripple compensation calculation unit includes
a phase compensator that calculates a compensation value component in the voltage control calculation unit on the basis of an actual angular velocity value indicating an angular velocity at which the motor rotates, and
an inverse characteristic calculation processor that calculates a compensation value component for compensating the torque ripple on the basis of an inverse characteristic of an open loop transfer function in the feedback control, and

a current limit calculation unit configured to limit the target current command to a predetermined value or less, wherein the current limit calculation unit is upstream of the torque ripple compensation calculation unit, wherein
the inverter is configured to control the motor based on the current command value.

2. The motor control system according to claim 1 , wherein the motor control system drives an 8P12S motor.

3. The motor control system according to claim 1 , wherein the motor control system drives a surface permanent magnet (SPM) motor having a magnet disposed on a surface of a rotor.

4. The motor control system according to claim 1 , wherein the motor control system drives a vehicle traveling motor.

5. A power steering system comprising:
a motor control system for driving a motor having a phase number n of three or more, motor control system comprising:
an inverter that drives the motor; and
a control calculation unit that calculates a current command value indicating a current to be supplied to the motor from the inverter on the basis of a target current command value given from the outside as a control target of the motor, and feeds back an actual current detection value indicating a current supplied to the motor from the inverter to the current command value to feedback-control the inverter, wherein
the control calculation unit includes
a voltage control calculation unit that calculates a voltage command value indicating a voltage to be applied to the motor from the inverter on the basis of a current deviation between the current command value and the actual current detection value,
a torque ripple compensation calculation unit that adds a compensation value for compensating a torque ripple in the motor to a signal value on an upstream side in a signal flow that passes through the voltage control calculation unit, and

the torque ripple compensation calculation unit includes
a phase compensator that calculates a compensation value component in the voltage control calculation unit on the basis of an actual angular velocity value indicating an angular velocity at which the motor rotates, and
an inverse characteristic calculation processor that calculates a compensation value component for compensating the torque ripple on the basis of an inverse characteristic of an open loop transfer function in the feedback control, and

a current limit calculation unit configured to limit the target current command to a predetermined value or less, wherein the current limit calculation unit is upstream of the torque ripple compensation calculation unit,
wherein the inverter is configured to control the motor based on the current command value;
a motor controlled by the motor control system; and
a power steering mechanism driven by the motor.

Assignees

• Nidec Corp

Inventors

• Endo Shuji
• Tatewaki Tokuji
• Ueda Tomoya
• Watahiki Masanori
• MORI Tomonari

Classifications

• B62D5/046 Primary

  Controlling the motor · CPC title

• B62D6/008

  Control of feed-back to the steering input member, e.g. simulating road feel in steer-by-wire applications · CPC title

• H02P23/04

  specially adapted for damping motor oscillations, e.g. for reducing hunting · CPC title

• H02P27/06

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

• H02P21/05

  specially adapted for damping motor oscillations, e.g. for reducing hunting · CPC title