Method for measuring characteristic constants of alternating current motor and controller thereof based on said method

• US 5,475,293 A
• Filed: 09/16/1993
• Issued: 12/12/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 09/16/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Okuyama, Toshiaki, Endo, Tsunehiro, Sakai, Keijiro, Fujii, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Martin, David S.
• Application Number:
  US08/121,896
• Time in Patent Office: 817 Days
• Field of Search: 318/798-804, 318/805-814, 318/727, 318/749, 318/767-768
• US Class Current: 318/802
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 21/04 specially adapted for very low speeds
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 21/16 Estimation of constants, e.g. the rotor time constant
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 21/34 Arrangements for starting
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 2207/01 Asynchronous machines

Abstract

An inverter corrects an output voltage in accordance with the magnitude of output voltage error due to a dead time and an ON-state voltage drop in power elements so as to energize an AC motor in a manner of single phase alternating current excitation, by calculating an active component of current Iq and a reactive component of current Id from the phase θ of an excitation voltage vector and a detected instantaneous current value iu, and by measuring characteristic constants of the motor, including a combined resistance (r₁ +r₂) and a combined leakage inductance (l₁ +l₂), from an excitation voltage command value Vc₁, Id and Iq. The measured values are used as the control constants for a speed sensorless vector control. Further, the resistances r₁, r₂, and a self-inductance L₁, which are control constants, can be obtained based on the component in a primary voltage vector direction of a primary current vector Iq'"'"' and the component π/2 delayed from the primary voltage vector direction of the primary current vector Id'"'"'. In this way, the characteristic constants can be accurately measured without any inverter output voltage sensor.

Claims

1. A method of measuring characteristic constants of a three-phase alternating current motor controlled by an inverter apparatus including a three-phase inverter for converting a direct current voltage into a three-phase alternating current so as to supply the three-phase alternating current to said three-phase motor and a controller for controlling the magnitude and pulse-width of an output voltage of said three-phase inverter, the method comprising the steps of:

producing single-phase alternating current excitation signals based on a primary frequency command value ω

₁ and a primary voltage command value Vc₁ for said three-phase inverter, and a detected current value of the three-phase motor;

controlling the three-phase inverter by single-phase alternating current excitation based on said single-phase alternating current excitation signals so as to output single-phase alternating current to the three-phase motor;

calculating an active power component of current Iq and a reactive power component of current Id for the three-phase motor based on a phase value obtained by integrating said primary frequency command and a detected current value of the three-phase motor controlled in the manner of the single-phase alternating current excitation; and

measuring a combined resistance (r₁ +r₂) of primary resistance r₁ and secondary resistance r₂ of the three-phase motor by calculating a ratio of a value Vc₁ ·

Iq and a value (Id² +Iq²), and a combined leakage inductance (l₁ +l₂) of primary leakage inductance l and secondary leakage inductance l₂ of the three-phase motor by calculating a ratio of a value Vc₁ ·

Id and a value ω

₁ (Id² +Iq²).

2. A method of measuring characteristic constants of a three-phase alternating current motor, as defined in claim 1, wherein said single-phase alternating current excitation signals are produced by supplying pulse width modulation signals of a carrier wave command signal modulated by a sine wave to only one phase out of three phases of the three-phase motor and pulse width signals having a conduction rate which is 1/2 to the other two phases of the three-phase motor;

and further including;

correcting the pulse width signals according to a pulse width Tλ

depending on the current polarity of the motor, said pulse width Tλ

corresponding to an inverter output voltage error due to a dead time required to prevent a short-circuit between positive- and negative arms of the inverter and an ON-state voltage drop in power semiconductor elements of the inverter.

3. A method of measuring characteristic constants of a three-phase alternating current motor, as defined in claim 2, wherein said active power component Iq is calculated from an averaged value of an integration of the value sinΘ

·

iu over an interval of an integral number of times of one-half cycle interval of the primary frequency and said reactive power component Id is calculated from an averaged value of the integration of the value -cosΘ

·

iu over the interval of an integral number of times of one-half cycle of the primary frequency; and

further including;

providing the value of Θ

as a rotational phase of the alternating current excitation voltage vector obtained by integrating the primary frequency command value ω

₁ and the current value iu defined as a detected instantaneous current in the phase of performed sine wave modulation.

4. A method of measuring characteristic constants of a three-phase alternating current motor, as defined in claim 1, further comprising:

controlling the inverter based on the primary frequency command value ω

₁ and the primary voltage command value Vc₁ so as to operate said alternating current motor at a constant speed;

calculating an active power component Iq'"'"' and a reactive power component Id'"'"' of a current vector I₁ of the motor by using a phase value obtained by integrating said primary frequency command value ω

₁ and a detected current value of the motor; and

measuring at least one of a primary self-inductance L₁ and a mutual inductance M of said motor based on the primary frequency command value ω

₁, the primary voltage command value Vc₁ and said active power component Iq'"'"' and said reactive power component Id'"'"'.

5. A method of measuring characteristic constants of a three-phase alternating current motor, as defined in claim 4, characterized by

determining the primary self-inductance L₁ by using the primary resistance r₁ and combined leakage inductance Lx which are previously measured based on the following equation:

##EQU2##

6. A controller for controlling a three-phase alternating current motor using an inverter apparatus comprising:

a three-phase inverter for converting direct current voltage into a three-phase alternating current so as to supply the three-phase alternating current to said motor; and

a controller for controlling the magnitude and pulse-width of an output voltage of said inverter said controller comprising;

(a) means for producing single-phase alternating current excitation signals based on a primary frequency command value ω

₁ and a primary voltage command value Vc₁ for said three-phase inverter, and a detected current value of the three-phase motor;

(b) means for controlling the three-phase inverter by single-phase alternating current excitation in response to said single-phase alternating current excitation signals so as to output single-phase alternating current to the three-phase motor;

(c) means for calculating an active power component of current Iq and a reactive power component of current Id for the three-phase motor based on a phase value obtained by integrating said primary frequency command and a detected current value of the three-phase motor controlled by single-phase alternating current excitation; and

(d) means for measuring a combined resistance (r₁ +r₂) of primary resistance r₁ and secondary resistance r₂ of the three-phase motor by calculating a ratio of a value Vc₁ ·

Iq and a value (Id² +Iq²), and a combined leakage inductance (l₁ +l₂) of primary leakage inductance l₁ and secondary leakage inductance l₂ of the three-phase motor by calculating a ratio of a value Vc₁ ·

Id and a value ω

₁ (Id² +Iq²).

7. A controller for controlling a three-phase alternating current motor according to claim 6, wherein said means for producing the single-phase alternating current excitation signals includes means for supplying pulse width modulation signals of a carrier wave command signal modulated by a sine wave to only one phase out of three phases of the three-phase motor and pulse width signals having a conduction rate which is 1/2 to the other two phases of the three-phase motor;

and further comprising;

means for correcting the pulse width signals according to a pulse width Tλ

depending on the current polarity of the motor, said pulse width Tλ

corresponding to an inverter output voltage error due to a dead time required to prevent a short-circuit between positive- and negative arms of the inverter and an ON-state voltage drop in power semiconductor elements of the inverter.

8. A controller for controlling a three-phase alternating current motor according to claim 6, said controller further comprising:

(e) means for controlling the inverter based on the primary frequency command value ω

₁ and the primary voltage command value Vc₁ so as to operate said alternating current motor at a constant speed,

(f) means for calculating an active power component Iq'"'"' and a reactive power component Id'"'"' of a current vector I₁ of the motor by using a phase value obtained by integrating said primary frequency command value ω

₁ and a detected current of the motor; and

(g) means for measuring at least one of a primary self-inductance L₁ and a mutual inductance M of the motor based on the primary frequency command value ω

₁, the primary voltage command value Vc₁ and said active power component Iq'"'"' and said reactive power component Id'"'"'.