VECTOR CONTROL DEVICE FOR ALTERNATING-CURRENT ELECTRIC MOTOR

• US 20100237821A1
• Filed: 08/29/2006
• Published: 09/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Kitanaka, Hidetoshi
• Granted Patent: US 8,106,620 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 318/702
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2200/26 Rail vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 21/05 specially adapted for damping motor oscillations, e.g. for reducing hunting
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 27/04 using variable-frequency supply voltage, e.g. inverter or converter supply voltage
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 29/026 the fault being a power fluctuation
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/64 Electric machine technologies in electromobility

Abstract

There is provided a vector control device for an alternating-current electric motor having a damping controller which automatically calculates an optimum damping operation amount and does not require any gain setting itself, whereby an adjustment work of a control system can be simplified. The vector control device is equipped with a vector controller 30 for executing vector control on the alternating-current electric motor 6 in accordance with a current command or a torque command, and a damping controller 40 for calculating a damping operation amount for suppressing variation of a capacitor voltage Efc. The damping controller 40 calculates a variation rate of the capacitor voltage Efc, operates the current command or torque command of the vector controller 30 on the basis of the damping operation amount corresponding to the variation rate and controls the inverter 4 so that current flowing in the inverter varies so as to suppress the variation thereof with respect to the variation of the capacitor voltage Efc.

Claims

1. A vector control device for an alternating-current electric motor which has an LC filter circuit comprising a reactor and a capacitor at a direct-current power supply side and an inverter converting a voltage across the capacitor (capacitor voltage) to an AC voltage having any frequency, comprising:

a vector controller for executing vector control on the alternating-current electric motor in accordance with a current command or a torque command; and

a damping controller for calculating a damping operation amount for suppressing variation of the capacitor voltage, operating the current command or the torque command of the vector controller on the basis of the calculated damping operation amount, and controlling the inverter so that current flowing in the inverter varies so as to suppress the variation thereof with respect to the capacitor voltage, wherein the damping controller sets as the damping operation amount the value of a signal obtained by squaring the variation rate of the capacitor voltage under power running operation of the alternating-current electric motor, and sets as the damping operation amount the value of a signal obtained by inverting the phase of a signal which is obtained by squaring the variation rate of the capacitor voltage under regenerative operation of the alternating-current electric motor.

2. The vector control device for the alternating-current electric motor according to claim 1, wherein the damping controller divides the input capacitor voltage by a DC component contained in the capacitor voltage to calculate the variation rate of the capacitor voltage.

3. The vector control device for the alternating-current electric motor according to claim 1, wherein the damping controller adds a DC component contained in the capacitor voltage to a signal from which unnecessary high frequency components contained in the capacitor voltage are cut, and divides the addition signal by the DC component contained in the capacitor voltage, thereby calculating the variation rate of the capacitor voltage.

4. The vector control device for the alternating-current electric motor according to claim 1, wherein the damping controller limits upper and lower limits of the damping operation amount by a limiter.

7. The vector control device for the alternating-current electric motor according to claim 1, wherein the alternating-current electric motor is an alternating-current electric motor for driving an electric vehicle.

5. (canceled)

6. (canceled)