Drive and method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9948225-B2
Application number	US-37611607-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 30, 2007
Priority date	Jul 31, 2006
Publication date	Apr 17, 2018
Grant date	Apr 17, 2018

Abstract

A drive, including an electric motor, which is supplied by a rectifier, the rectifier including a time-discrete closed-loop control structure, which regulates the stator current of the electric motor by setting the voltage applied at the motor, the current of the motor being acquired in time-discrete fashion, the closed-loop control structure including a first closed-loop controller whose setpoint is the output value of a first non-linear transfer member, and whose actual value is the output value of a second non-linear transfer member, the input value of the first non-linear transfer member being the setpoint of a first current component of the current, the input value of the second non-linear transfer member being the actual value of a first current component of the current.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A drive, comprising:
an electric motor;
a rectifier adapted to supply a voltage to the motor, the rectifier adapted to regulate a stator current of the electric motor by setting the voltage applied at the motor based on a time-discrete closed-loop control structure, a current of the motor acquirable in time-discrete fashion, the rectifier including a closed-loop controller;
a first non-linear transfer member adapted to receive, as an input value, a first current setpoint of a first current component of the current and adapted to generate an output value directly to the closed-loop controller as a second current setpoint; and
a second non-linear transfer member adapted to receive, as an input value, an actual value of the first current component of the current and adapted to generate an output value directly to the closed-loop controller as an actual value;
wherein (i) at least one of the non-linear transfer members is adapted to generate the output value in accordance with (a) a magnetization curve of the motor and/or (b) a current-dependent inductivity of the motor and (ii) at least one of the non-linear transfer members has a transfer function in the form of

Φ
⁡

(
I
)

=

∫

i
=
0

I

⁢

L
diff

⁡

(
i
)

⁢

⁢
d
⁢

⁢
i

 I being an input variable of the non-linear transfer member and L diff (i) corresponds to the current-dependent inductivity of the motor; and
wherein the first and the second non-linear transfer members are identical.

2. The drive according to claim 1 , wherein the closed-loop controller includes at least one of (a) a linear controller, (b) a P-controller, (c) a PI-controller, (d) a PID-controller; and (e) a controller with pilot control.

3. The drive according to claim 1 , wherein a plurality of current components are determinable in a coordinate system from the acquired current.

4. The drive according to claim 3 , further including a closed-loop control structure for each of the plurality of current components, which is similar to the closed-loop control structure for the first current component.

5. A method for regulating a motor current in an electric motor supplied by a rectifier, comprising:
acquiring a stator current of the motor in time-discrete fashion;
regulating the stator current of the motor;
wherein a first current setpoint of a first current component corresponds to an input value of a first non-linear transfer member whose output value is directly transmitted to a closed-loop controller as a second current setpoint, an actual value of the first current component corresponding to an input value of a second non-linear transfer member whose output value is directly transmitted to the closed-loop controller as an actual value, an actuating variable of the closed-loop controller corresponding to a voltage applied at the motor; and
wherein the method is implemented in a time-discrete fashion; and
wherein (i) at least one of the non-linear transfer members generates the output value in accordance with (a) a magnetization curve of the motor and/or (b) a current-dependent inductivity of the motor and (ii) at least one of the non-linear transfer members has a transfer function in the form of

Φ
⁡

(
I
)

=

∫

i
=
0

I

⁢

L
diff

⁡

(
i
)

⁢

⁢
d
⁢

⁢
i

 I being an input variable of the non-linear transfer member and L diff (i) corresponds to the current-dependent inductivity of the motor; and
wherein the first and the second non-linear transfer members are identical.

Assignees

• Hammel Wolfgang
• Schuster Thomas
• Sew Eurodrive Gmbh & Co

Inventors

• Hammel Wolfgang
• Schuster Thomas

Classifications

• H02P6/34

  Modelling or simulation for control purposes · CPC title

• H02P23/0077 Primary

  Characterised by the use of a particular software algorithm · CPC title

• H02P23/0004

  Control strategies in general, e.g. linear type, e.g. P, PI, PID, using robust control · CPC title