Control method for electric drive system of vehicle, electric drive system, and vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12451825-B2
Application number	US-202318215725-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 28, 2023
Priority date	Mar 31, 2021
Publication date	Oct 21, 2025
Grant date	Oct 21, 2025

Abstract

A control method for an electric drive system of a vehicle, includes: acquiring a shaft torque of the electric motor and a present operating point of the vehicle in response to a vehicle heating demand signal; acquiring a present heat generation power of the electric drive system accordingly; determining a current adjustment amplitude accordingly; acquiring a three-phase current value and a position value of the electric motor, and a present direct axis current value and a present quadrature axis current value of the electric motor at the present operating point accordingly; controlling the present direct axis current value to oscillate at a change frequency and the current adjustment amplitude to obtain a target direct axis current value; acquiring a target quadrature axis current value accordingly; acquiring an electric motor drive signal accordingly.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A control method for an electric drive system of a vehicle, the electric drive system comprising an electric motor and an electric motor controller, the method comprising:
acquiring a shaft torque of the electric motor and a present operating point of the vehicle in response to a vehicle heating demand signal;
acquiring a present heat generation power of the electric drive system according to the present operating point of the vehicle;
determining a current adjustment amplitude according to a vehicle heating power demand and the present heat generation power;
acquiring a three-phase current value and a position value of the electric motor, and acquiring a present direct axis current value and a present quadrature axis current value of the electric motor at the present operating point of the vehicle according to the three-phase current value and the position value;
controlling the present direct axis current value to oscillate at a change frequency and the current adjustment amplitude to obtain a target direct axis current value, by:
acquiring a first direct axis current value and a second direct axis current value according to the current adjustment amplitude, wherein
the target direct axis current value changes periodically at the change frequency with the present direct axis current value as a reference value, the first direct axis current value as a peak, and the second direct axis current value as a valley,
the first direct axis current value is a sum of the present direct axis current value and the current adjustment amplitude, and
the second direct axis current value is a difference of the present direct axis current value and the current adjustment amplitude;

acquiring a target quadrature axis current value according to the target direct axis current value and the shaft torque of the electric motor;
acquiring an electric motor drive signal according to the target direct axis current value, the target quadrature axis current value, the present direct axis current value, and the present quadrature axis current value; and
sending the electric motor drive signal to the electric motor controller, to control an operation of the electric motor.

2. The control method according to claim 1 , wherein the determining the current adjustment amplitude according to the vehicle heating power demand and the present heat generation power comprises:
calculating a power difference between the heating power demand of the vehicle and the present heat generation power; and
acquiring the current adjustment amplitude according to the power difference, wherein the current adjustment amplitude increases as the power difference increases.

3. The control method according to claim 1 , wherein the electric motor controller comprises a power switching device; and when the target direct axis current value is greater than a limit value, a carrier frequency of the power switching device fluctuates randomly in a range.

4. The control method according to claim 1 , wherein the target direct axis current value and the target quadrature axis current value meet:
T e =1.5 N p [( L d −L q ) i d +φ f ]i q ;

wherein T e is the shaft torque of the electric motor, N p is a number of pole pairs in a rotor of the electric motor, L d is a direct axis inductance, L q is a quadrature axis inductance, i d is the target direct axis current value, φ f is a magnetic flux linkage, and i q is the target quadrature axis current value.

5. The control method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
determining that the vehicle heating power demand changes; and
adjusting the current adjustment amplitude or the change frequency according to the changed vehicle heating power demand.

6. The control method according to claim 1 , wherein the acquiring the present direct axis current value and the present quadrature axis current value of the electric motor at the present operating point of the vehicle according to the three-phase current value and the position value comprises:
transforming the three-phase current value into a two-phase static current value; and
transforming the two-phase static current value into a two-phase rotatory current value, wherein the two-phase rotatory current value comprises the present quadrature axis current value and the present direct axis current value.

7. The control method according to claim 1 , wherein the acquiring the electric motor drive signal according to the target direct axis current value, the target quadrature axis current value, the present direct axis current value, and the present quadrature axis current value comprises:
acquiring a direct axis current difference by calculating a difference between the target direct axis current value and the present direct axis current value, and acquiring a quadrature axis current difference by calculating a difference between the target quadrature axis current value and the present quadrature axis current value;
obtaining a direct axis voltage value and a quadrature axis voltage value by performing closed loop current adjustment according to the direct axis current difference and the quadrature axis current difference;
transforming the direct axis voltage value and the quadrature axis voltage value into a two-phase static voltage value;
acquiring a bus voltage value of the electric drive system; and
obtaining the electric motor drive signal by performing pulse width modulation according to the bus voltage value and the two-phase static voltage value.

8. An electric drive system, comprising:
an electric motor and an electric motor controller;
a current sensor, configured to collect a three-phase current value of the electric motor;
a position sensor, configured to collect a position value of the electric motor; and
a processor, connected to the electric motor controller, the current sensor, and the position sensor, and configured to perform operations comprising:
acquiring a shaft torque of the electric motor and a present operating point of a vehicle in response to a vehicle heating demand signal;
acquiring a present heat generation power of the electric drive system according to the present operating point of the vehicle;
determining a current adjustment amplitude according to a vehicle heating power demand and the present heat generation power;
acquiring a three-phase current value and a position value of the electric motor, and acquiring a present direct axis current value and a present quadrature axis current value of the electric motor at the present operating point of the vehicle according to the three-phase current value and the position value;
controlling the present direct axis current value to oscillate at a change frequency and the current adjustment amplitude to obtain a target direct axis current value, by:
acquiring a first direct axis current value and a second direct axis current value according to the current adjustment amplitude, wherein
the target direct axis current value changes periodically at the change frequency with the present direct axis current value as a reference value, the first direct axis current value as a peak, and the second direct axis current value as a valley,
the first direct axis current value is a sum of the present direct axis current value and the current adjustment amplitude, and
the second direct axis current value is a difference of the present direct axis current value and the current adjustment amplitude;

acquiring a target quadrature axis current value according to the target direct axis current value and the shaft torque of the electric motor;
acquiring an electric motor drive signal according to the target direct axis current value, the target quadrature axis current value, the p

Assignees

• Byd Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ling Heping
• Pan Hua
• Zhang Yuxin
• Qiu Guowei
• Hong Chen

Classifications

• H02P21/14

  Estimation or adaptation of machine parameters, e.g. flux, current or voltage · CPC title

• B60L2240/429

  Current · CPC title

• B60L2240/427

  Voltage · CPC title

• B60L2240/425

  Temperature · CPC title

• B60L2240/423

  Torque · CPC title