Digital servo-control apparatus for preventing torque variations

• US 5,309,075 A
• Filed: 03/22/1991
• Issued: 05/03/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Toyoda Koki Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyoda Koki Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Masegi, Yasunori, Yokoe, Isamu, Kohno, Toshio
• Primary Examiner(s): Shoop, Jr., William M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sircus, Brian
• Application Number:
  US07/673,384
• Time in Patent Office: 1,138 Days
• Field of Search: 318/439, 318/628, 318/138, 318/437, 318/608, 318/632, 318/650, 318/798-800
• US Class Current: 318/608
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 21/22 Current control, e.g. using a current control loop

Abstract

An apparatus for preventing torque variation in a digitally controlled servomotor. Electrical angles θ₁ and θ₂ of the exciting magnetic field or the armature coil at respective timings of detecting and controlling a load current are obtained. The current is dq-transformed with θ₁ and inverse-dq-transformed with θ₂. As a result, even if there is a displacement of the actual electrical angle owing to the rotation of the armature during computing, it is possible to execute accurate current control. Further, at the time of calibration of the control system, the load currents are detected to be dq-transformed. From the d-axis components and q-axis components, values related to the offset and the amplification factor of the current detection systems are calculated. During the actual operation of the servomotor, the detected current value is corrected using the values. Further, the detection of the load current is performed plural times in one control cycle. Thereupon, a statistical average value is obtained as the detected current. Accordingly, an undesirable variation of the output torque is prevented.

Claims

1. A digital servo-control apparatus having a current feedback loop for sampling a load current to an AC servomotor of three-phase type at a predetermined control interval thereby obtaining a current feedback value and digitally controlling said load current according to said current feedback value and a target value of said load current, wherein said digital servo-control apparatus comprises:

current detection means for detecting, as said load current, load currents of at least two phases;

amplifiers for amplifying output values of said current detection means;

detected current transformation means for obtaining as said feedback value, from output values of said amplifiers, a d-axis component representing a reactive current component and a q-axis component representing an active current component in a dq-coordinate system;

parameter calculation means for sampling, during calibration of said servo-control apparatus, said output values of said amplifiers at a plurality of points of time during a predetermined period and determining, according to time-dependent characteristics of said d-axis component and said q-axis component obtained by said detected current transformation means, parameters related to amplification factors and offset values of current detection systems formed of said current detection means and said amplifiers; and

correction means for correcting, according to said parameters calculated by said parameter calculation means, said output values of said amplifiers on a real-time basis while said servo-control apparatus is being driven during normal operation,

wherein said parameters are determined so that fluctuations of said d-axis component and q-axis component are eliminated.

2. A digital servo-control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said parameter calculation means calculates said amplification factors from respective DC components of said d-axis and q-axis components output from said detected current transformation means and calculates said offset values from an amplitude and phase of a fundamental wave of said d-axis or q-axis component output from said detected current transformation means.

3. A digital servo-control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said apparatus further comprises:

command value obtaining means for obtaining dq-component command values for controlling said load current in said dq-coordinate system in accordance with respective deviations of said d-axis and q-axis components of said detected load current to respective target values;

inverse transformation means for inversely transforming said dq-component command values into a current command value for controlling said load current; and

angle calculation means for calculating first and second electrical angles formed between a reference axis of an armature coil of said servomotor and an exciting magnetic field, said first electrical angle being used at the time when said load current is detected and said second electrical angle being used at the time when said load current is then digitally controlled;

wherein said detected current transformation means applies dq-transformation to said detected load current using said first electrical angle, thereby obtaining the d-axis component and the q-axis component of said load current, and said inverse-transformation means applies inverse-do-transformation to said dq-component command values using said second electrical angle, thereby obtaining said current command value for controlling said load current.

4. A digital servo-control method comprising the steps of:

detecting a load current to an AC servomotor;

amplifying said detected load current;

obtaining from said amplified load current value, a d-axis component representing a reactive current component and a q-axis component representing an active current component in a dq-coordinate system;

sampling at the time of calibrating said amplified load current value at a plurality of points of time during a predetermined period and calculating, according to time-dependent characteristics of said d-axis component and said q-axis component obtained, parameters related to an amplification factor and an offset value; and

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correcting according to the parameters calculated, the amplified load current value on a real-time basis.