Motor control device and electric power steering device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9771098-B2
Application number	US-201514633971-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 27, 2015
Priority date	Mar 7, 2014
Publication date	Sep 26, 2017
Grant date	Sep 26, 2017

Abstract

A motor control device includes a motor drive circuit and a microcomputer that controls the drive circuit. The microcomputer generates a control signal on the basis of duty command values Du, Dv, and Dw to control the drive circuit. The microcomputer includes a dead time compensation section that corrects the duty command values Du, Dv, and Dw on the basis of dead time compensation values Ddu, Ddv, and Ddw. The dead time compensation section includes a basic compensation value computation section that computes a basic compensation value Dd as a fundamental value of the dead time compensation values Ddu, Ddv, and Ddw, and a filter section that performs a filtering process corresponding to a low-pass filter on the basic compensation value Dd. The dead time compensation section sets the dead time compensation values Ddu, Ddv, and Ddw on the basis of an output value α from the filter section.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A motor control device comprising:
a drive circuit that supplies drive electric power to a motor;
a current sensor that detects a current value to be supplied to the motor; and
a control section that computes a voltage command value through execution of current feedback control in which the current value detected by the current sensor is caused to follow a current command value, and generates a control signal on the basis of a duty command value corresponding to the voltage command value to control drive of the drive circuit on the basis of the control signal, wherein:
the control section includes a dead time compensation section that corrects the duty command value on the basis of a dead time compensation value;
the dead time compensation section includes:
a basic compensation value computation section that computes a basic compensation value, which is a fundamental value of the dead time compensation value, on the basis of the current command value, and
a filter section that performs a filtering process corresponding to a low-pass filter on the basic compensation value;

the dead time compensation section is configured to set the dead time compensation value on the basis of an output value from the filter section,
the basic compensation value is a constant value that is greater than zero when an absolute value of the current command value is equal to or more than a threshold value, and
the output value is calculated from a current basic compensation value Dd, a preceding basic compensation value Dd b , and a preceding output value α b from the filter section on the basis of the following formula (1), wherein G 0 indicates a gain from the filter section:
α= Dd b +G 0×{ Dd−α b }.  (1)

2. The motor control device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the control section
sets a d-axis current command value and a q-axis current command value in a d/q coordinate system,
converts current values for respective phases detected by the current sensor into a d-axis current value and a q-axis current value in the d/q coordinate system using a rotational angle of the motor, and
executes current feedback control based on a deviation between the d-axis current value and the d-axis current command value such that the d-axis current value follows the d-axis current command value, and based on a deviation between the q-axis current value and the q-axis current command value such that the q-axis current value follows the q-axis current command value;

the dead time compensation section
sets the basic compensation value on the basis of the q-axis current command value, and
reverses a sign of the dead time compensation value between positive and negative when a sign of the q-axis current command value is reversed between positive and negative; and

the filter section is configured to set an input value and an output value of the filtering process to zero when a sign of the q-axis current value is reversed between positive and negative.

3. An electric power steering device comprising:
a steering mechanism;
a motor that applies an assist force to the steering mechanism; and
a motor control device that controls drive of the motor, wherein:
the motor control device according to claim 1 is used as the motor control device; and
the filter section is configured to perform a filtering process on the basic compensation value when a stationary steering operation is performed on the steering mechanism.

Assignees

• Jtekt Corp

Inventors

• Mikamo Satoru
• Koike Ayumi

Classifications

• Y02T10/72

  Electric energy management in electromobility · CPC title

• H02M2001/385

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H02P21/50

  Vector control arrangements or methods not otherwise provided for in H02P21/00- H02P21/36 · CPC title

• B60L2240/12

  Speed · CPC title

• B60L15/20

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