Method for controlling a power electronics system

• US 10,155,489 B2
• Filed: 02/08/2017
• Issued: 12/18/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dr Ing hc F Porsche AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Original Assignee: Dr Ing hc F Porsche AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Inventors: Gotz, Stefan
• Primary Examiner(s): Cavallari-See, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US15/427,390
• Publication Number:
  US 20170294901A1
• Time in Patent Office: 678 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/03 for supply of electrical power to vehicle subsystems or for circuit arrangements for charging batteries H02J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 5/04 by increasing duration; by decreasing duration

Abstract

Method for controlling a power electronics system for a vehicle in which, while maintaining a current timing of a modulator of the power electronics system, one switching state of the power electronics system from a number of possible switching states of the power electronics system is selected in dependence on at least one requirement, to be provided in advance, for spectral characteristics of an error signal of an output voltage of the power electronics system and is set in the power electronics system.

Claims

1. A method for controlling a power electronics system for a vehicle, the method comprising:

selecting one switching state of the power electronics system from a number of possible switching states of the power electronics system in dependence on at least one pre-determined requirement for spectral characteristics of an error signal of an output voltage of the power electronics system, while maintaining a current timing of a modulator of the power electronics system, and

setting the selected switching state in the power electronics system.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising choosing the at least one pre-determined requirement in dependence on a current position of the vehicle.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising choosing the at least one pre-determined requirement in dependence on at least one vehicle parameter of the vehicle.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising specifying the at least one pre-determined requirement by a device comprising either the vehicle or a device allocated to a user.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, in which all possible switching states of the power electronics system are simulated and checked for their influence on a change of a frequency spectrum of the error signal of the output voltage of the power electronics system in a predetermined time domain and wherein, from the simulated switching states, the switching state which closest meets the at least one pre-determined requirement is selected for implementation in the power electronics system and set in the power electronics system.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5, in which the error signal of each simulated switching state of the power electronics system is preprocessed by a sigma/delta modulation in order to determine a suitability of a respective switching state of the power electronics system for meeting the at least one pre-determined requirement, an exponentially decreasing window function being chosen as integrator element of the sigma/delta modulation in order to reduce an influence of respective preceding switching states of the power electronics system on the change of the error signal and to suppress oscillations.

7. The method as claimed in claim 5, in which for a case that a number of requirements are specified, the method comprises determining a target spectrum by at least one predetermined weighting factor, and using the target spectrum for a selection of a respective switching state of the power electronics system from the possible simulated switching states of the power electronics system.

8. The method as claimed in claim 5, further comprising preprocessing the error signal of the output voltage of the power electronics system by a filter function in order to determine a suitability of a respective switching state of the power electronics system for meeting the at least one pre-determined requirement.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, further comprising choosing a cut-off function falling inversely proportionally for high frequencies at respective amplitudes of a number of selected frequencies as the filter function.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9, further comprising reducing selected values of the frequency spectrum in their amplitude below a predetermined threshold value by a mathematical function.

11. The method as claimed in claim 10, further comprising choosing an amplitude of 40 dB as the predetermined threshold value.

12. A modulator for a power electronics system, the modulator comprising:

at least one control device which is configured to select one switching state of the power electronics system from a number of simulated switching states in dependence on a comparison of at least one pre-determined requirement of spectral characteristics of an error signal of an output voltage of the power electronics system with respective frequency spectra of error signals of an output voltage of the power electronics system which, in each case, correspond to a simulated switching state of the power electronics system and to set the one switching state at the power electronics system with constant timing of respective switching rates of the power electronics system.

13. The modulator as claimed in claim 12, the control device furthermore being configured to generate spectral gaps in a respective frequency spectrum by at least one mathematical function in dependence on the at least one pre-determined requirement.