ELECTRIC-VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE

• US 20160094164A1
• Filed: 12/08/2015
• Published: 03/31/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTN Corporation
• Original Assignee: NTN Corporation
• Inventors: LI, Guodong
• Granted Patent: US 9,586,484 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 15/025 using field orientation; Vector control; Direct Torque Control [DTC]
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2220/42 with use of more than one motor
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2220/44 Wheel Hub motors, i.e. integrated in the wheel hub
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2220/46 Wheel motors, i.e. motor connected to only one wheel
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/12 Speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/421 Speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/423 Torque
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/526 Operating parameters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2260/28 Four wheel or all wheel drive
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 7/14 for vehicles propelled by ac motors
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 7/26 Controlling the braking effect
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 21/18 Estimation of position or speed
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 21/22 Current control, e.g. using a current control loop
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 21/50 Vector control arrangements or methods not otherwise provided for in H02P21/00- H02P21/36
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 2205/05 Torque loop, i.e. comparison of the motor torque with a torque reference
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 6/153 wherein the commutation is advanced from position signals phase in function of the speed
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 6/16 Circuit arrangements for detecting position
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/64 Electric machine technologies in electromobility

Abstract

A control device for an electric vehicle which is able to accurately control a traction motor of the electric vehicle without any delay in control timing during rapid acceleration or rapid deceleration of the motor, is provided. The control device for the electric vehicle includes an ECU and an inverter device including a motor control module. A rotation angle sensor configured to detect a rotation angle of a motor is provided, and the motor control module is provided with a rotation angle correction section configured to correct a rotation angle of a rotor of the motor which is used for vector control, by using an angular speed of an electrical angle which is the rotation angle detected by the rotation angle sensor and a differential value of the angular speed of the electrical angle.

Claims

1. A control device for an electric vehicle, comprising:

an ECU which is an electric control unit configured to perform general control of the vehicle;

an inverter device including;

a power circuitry having an inverter configured to convert a DC power into an AC power used to drive a traction motor; and

a motor control module configured to control the power circuitry in accordance with a torque command from the ECU; and

a rotation angle sensor configured to detect a rotation angle of the motor, wherein

the motor control module acquires a rotation angle of a rotor of the motor from the rotation angle sensor and performs a vector control, and

the motor control module comprises a rotation angle correction section configured to correct the rotation angle of the rotor of the motor which is detected by the rotation angle sensor and used for the vector control, by using an angular speed of an electrical angle which is the rotation angle detected by the rotation angle sensor and a differential value of the angular speed of this electrical angle.

2. The control device for the electric vehicle as claimed in claim 1, further comprising motor current detection portion configured to detect a current of the motor, wherein

the motor control module includes a three phase/two phase conversion section configured to convert three-phase currents (Iu, Iv, Iw) flowing to the motor into two-phase currents (Id, Iq) on the basis of the current detected by the motor current detection portion and the rotation angle of the motor detected by the rotation angle sensor, and

coordinate conversion formulas from the three-phase currents (Iu, Iv, Iw) into the two-phase currents (Id, Iq) in the three phase/two phase conversion section are the following coordinate conversion formulas:

Id=√

2×

[Iv×

sin Θ

_Iu×

sin(Θ

−

2π

/3)], and

Iq=√

2×

[Iv×

cos Θ

_Iu×

cos(Θ

−

2π

/3)],

where Θ

=Θ

_A=Θ

_B−

ω

×

(t_B−

t_A)−

1/2×

dω

/dt×

(t_B−

t_A)̂

2.

3. The control device for the electric vehicle as claimed in claim 2, wherein

the motor control module includes:

power running controller configured to perform power running control of the motor; and

regenerative controller configured to perform regenerative control of the motor,

when the power running control of the motor is performed by the power running controller, the rotation angle correction section sets the differential value dω

/dt of the angular speed as a positive value, and sets 1/2×

dω

/dt×

(t_B t_A)̂

2 in the coordinate conversion formulas as an angle component which advances due to acceleration, and

when the regenerative control of the motor is performed by the regenerative controller, the rotation angle correction section sets the differential value dω

/dt of the angular speed as a negative value, and sets 1/2×

dω

/dt×

(t_B−

t_A)̂

2 in the coordinate conversion formulas as an angle component which delays due to deceleration.

4. The control device for the electric vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the motor control module includes a two phase/three phase conversion section configured to convert two-phase command voltages (Vd, Vq) into three-phase command voltages (Vu, Vv, Vw), and

coordinate conversion formulas from the two-phase command voltages (Vd, Vq) into the three-phase command voltages (Vu, Vv, Vw) in the two phase/three phase conversion section are the following coordinate conversion formulas:

Vu=√

(2/3)×

[Vd×

cos Θ

−

Vq×

sin Θ

],

Vv=√

(2/3)×

[Vd×

cos(Θ

−

2π

/3)−

Vq×

sin(Θ

−

2η

/3)], and

Vw=−

(Vu+Vv),

where Θ

=Θ

_C=Θ

_B+ω

×

(t_C−

t_B)+1/2×

dω

/dt×

(t_C−

t_B)̂

2.

5. The control device for the electric vehicle as claimed in claim 4, wherein

the motor control module includes:

power running controller configured to perform power running control of the motor; and

regenerative controller configured to perform regenerative control of the motor,

when the power running control of the motor is performed by the power running controller, the rotation angle correction section sets the differential value dω

/dt of the angular speed as a positive value, and sets 1/2×

dω

/dt×

(t_C t_B)̂

2 in the coordinate conversion formulas as an angle component which advances due to acceleration, and

when the regenerative control of the motor is performed by the regenerative controller, the rotation angle correction section sets the differential value dω

/dt of the angular speed as a negative value, and sets 1/2×

dω

/dt×

(t_C−

t_B)̂

2 in the coordinate conversion formulas as an angle component which delays due to deceleration.

6. The control device for the electric vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein the motor drives either one or both of a front wheel and a rear wheel of the vehicle and constitutes a part of an in-wheel motor drive device which includes the motor, a wheel bearing, and a reducer.