Electric motor control method and electric motor control device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12160189-B2
Application number	US-202018043172-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 27, 2020
Priority date	Aug 27, 2020
Publication date	Dec 3, 2024
Grant date	Dec 3, 2024

Abstract

An electric motor control method is an control method which is capable of selecting a first mode or a second mode as a control mode for controlling an operation of the electric motor according to an operating state of the electric motor. The method, when the second mode is selected as the control mode, stops a part of processing in the first mode, and continuously executes other processing including integral calculation except for the part of processing in the first mode. Also, the method, when the control mode is switched from the second mode to the first mode, starts the part of processing by using at least one control value obtained by continuing the other processing.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electric motor control method capable of selecting a first mode or a second mode as a control mode for controlling an operation of the electric motor according to an operating state of the electric motor, the method comprising:
when the second mode is selected as the control mode, executing a processing of the first mode, the processing of the first mode including a first processing for stopping the processing and a second processing including integral calculation for continuously executing the processing; and
when the control mode is switched from the second mode to the first mode, starting the first processing by using at least one control value obtained by continuing the second processing.

2. The electric motor control method according to claim 1 , wherein
the second processing includes feed forward compensation calculation processing,
in the feed forward compensation calculation processing, interference voltage calculation processing of calculating an interference voltage and first low-pass filter processing of smoothing the calculated interference voltage are executed,
when the control mode is switched from the second mode to the first mode, interference voltage removal processing of subtracting the interference voltage after executing the first low-pass filter processing from the state amount of the electric motor detected during the selection of the second mode is executed, and
the processing in the first mode is executed based on the state amount of the electric motor after executing the interference voltage removal processing.

3. An electric motor control device capable of selecting a first mode or a second mode as a control mode for controlling an operation of the electric motor according to an operating state of the electric motor, wherein
when the second mode is selected as the control mode, executing a processing of the first mode, the processing of the first mode including a first processing for stopping the processing and a second processing including integral calculation for continuously executing the processing, and
when the control mode is switched from the second mode to the first mode, the first processing is started by using at least one control value obtained by continuing the second processing.

4. The electric motor control method according to claim 1 , wherein
the first processing includes initialization processing of setting an initial value of a control variable in the first mode by using the at least one control value obtained by continuing the second processing during selection of the second mode, and/or
the second processing includes command value calculation processing of generating a voltage command value to be supplied to the electric motor.

5. The electric motor control method according to claim 4 , wherein
in the initialization processing, the initial value is determined based on a previous value with respect to a control period after switching the control mode among the at least one control value obtained by continuing the second processing during the selection of the second mode.

6. The electric motor control method according to claim 4 , wherein
the first processing includes inverse filter processing for calculating a disturbance component.

7. The electric motor control method according to claim 6 , wherein
in the initialization processing, the initial value is determined based on a previous value and a state amount of a steady state of the electric motor in the second mode before switching the control mode among the at least one control value obtained by continuing the second processing during the selection of the second mode.

8. The electric motor control method according to claim 4 , wherein
the second processing further includes correction processing, and
in the correction processing, a correction value for correcting the voltage command value by using the integral calculation is calculated when the second mode is selected as the control mode, and the voltage command value is corrected based on the correction value when the control mode is switched from the second mode to the first mode.

9. The electric motor control method according to claim 8 , wherein
in the correction processing, the correction value is calculated based on a difference between a voltage norm of the voltage command value in the second mode and a voltage norm required for achieving maximum efficiency in operation of the electric motor.

Assignees

• Nissan Motor

Inventors

• Mori Kenichi

Classifications

• H02P27/085

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• H02P21/22 Primary

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• H02P21/06

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• G05B15/02

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• H02P21/141

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