REDUCTION TECHNIQUE FOR PERMANENT MAGNET MOTOR HIGH FREQUENCY LOSS

• US 20160056737A1
• Filed: 08/20/2014
• Published: 02/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Raytheon Technologies Corporation d/b/a RTX)
• Original Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Raytheon Technologies Corporation d/b/a RTX)
• Inventors: WHITE, ADAM MICHAEL
• Granted Patent: US 9,385,647 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 19/02 characterised by the use of electric means
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 21/14 Estimation or adaptation of machine parameters, e.g. flux, current or voltage
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 21/22 Current control, e.g. using a current control loop
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 29/50 Reduction of harmonics
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 6/06 Arrangements for speed regulation of a single motor wherein the motor speed is measured and compared with a given physical value so as to adjust the motor speed
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 6/34 Modelling or simulation for control purposes

Abstract

A system including a motor loss reducing controller system utilizing input band-shifting, an integral control architecture and inverse band-shifting is disclosed. The motor loss reducing controller system may provide correction of harmonic currents flowing to a PM motor from a motor controller. The compensation is added to the PWM voltage command signals. Within a compensator, d-axis and q-axis current feedback signals are frequency shifted down by n times the fundamental frequency. This converts the initial motor stationary harmonic currents into DC values. The frequency shifting is completed by multiplying the feedback signal by sine and cosine carrier signals of the shifted frequency. An integral controller may cancel any component of error at a desired DC value. An inverse frequency-shift transformation is applied to the output of the I controller in order to shift the command output signal back to the original reference frame.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a motor loss controller structure configured for motor loss reduction, comprising an input bandshifting stage, an integral controller stage, and an output inverse bandshifting stage;

wherein inputs to the system are a feedback signal, a motor frequency signal and a control value,

wherein the sine of an angular component of a multiple of the motor frequency signal is multiplied by the feedback signal in the input bandshifting stage to form a first band-shifted feedback signal,

wherein the cosine of the angular component of a multiple of the motor frequency signal is multiplied by the feedback signal in the input bandshifting stage to form a second band-shifted feedback signal,

wherein errors in the first band-shifted feedback signal and the second band-shifted feedback signal are cancelled via integral control in the integral controller stage, and

wherein an inverse frequency-shift transformation is applied to an output of the integral controller stage in the output inverse bandshifting stage.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the first band-shifted feedback signal is summed with the control value.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the second band-shifted feedback signal is summed with the control value.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the feedback signal comprises at least one of a d-axis component or a q-axis component.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the system is configured to eliminate distortion in at least one of a d-axis or a q-axis at six times a fundamental frequency.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the system is configured to eliminate fifth or seventh order harmonics of a motor current.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the inputs to the system further comprise a phase shifting component.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein a conventional proportional-integral controller is implemented in parallel with the motor loss controller structure for both a d-axis and a q-axis.

9. A motor loss controller configured to:

band-shift a motor frequency signal by a multiple of a fundamental frequency into a parsed sine component and a cosine component and multiply a feedback signal by each of the parsed sine component and the cosine component;

perform integral control of a control value band-shifted sine component and a control value band-shifted cosine component, wherein the performing integral control is configured to at least one of eliminate or reduce a disturbance on an output of the motor loss controller by rejecting a DC disturbance in a band-shifted control value;

inverse band-shift the sine component back to its original band;

inverse band-shift the cosine component back to its original band; and

sum the inverse band-shifted sine component and the inverse band-shifted cosine component together to result in a controller output.

10. The motor loss controller of claim 9, further comprising phase shifting the inverse band-shifting of the sine component and phase shifting the inverse band-shifting of the cosine component.

11. The motor loss controller of claim 9, wherein the feedback signal comprises at least one of a d-axis component or a q-axis component.

12. The motor loss controller of claim 9, further comprising implementing a conventional PI controller in parallel with the motor loss controller for both a d-axis and a q axis of the feedback signal.

13. The motor loss controller of claim 9,

wherein the control value band-shifted sine component is created by summing the sine component of the band-shifted feedback signal with a control value, and

wherein the control value band-shifted cosine component is created by summing the cosine component of the band-shifted feedback signal with the control value.

14. The motor loss controller of claim 9, wherein the motor loss controller is configured to eliminate fifth or seventh order harmonics of a motor current.

15. The motor loss controller of claim 9, wherein the multiple of the fundamental frequency is six times the fundamental frequency.