Method for the field-oriented control of an induction motor

• US 6,037,742 A
• Filed: 11/27/1998
• Issued: 03/14/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Danfoss Drives A/S (Danfoss A/S)
• Original Assignee: Danfoss A/S
• Inventors: Rasmussen, Henrik
• Primary Examiner(s): Nappi, Robert E.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Leykin, Rita
• Application Number:
  US09/077,339
• Time in Patent Office: 473 Days
• Field of Search: 364/149-163, 318/799-811
• US Class Current: 318/807
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 21/141 Flux estimation

Abstract

A method for the field-oriented control of an induction motor (2) by means of a frequency converter (1) is disclosed, in which method a transformation angle (δ) is determined by estimation and is corrected in dependence on a rotational speed (ω_mR) of a rotor flux vector (i_mR) or of the induction motor (2) and/or in dependence on a delay time (T_del). In this connection it is desirable to improve the control behavior. To that end, the transformation angle (δ) is corrected a second time to compensate for a phase shift in the frequency converter (1).

Claims

1. Method for indirect field-oriented control of an induction motor by means of a frequency converter incorporating control mean, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) measuring rotor position of the motor,

(b) calculating a slip frequency,

(c) determining a transformation angle (δ

) from the measured rotor position (Θ

r) and the calculated slip frequency (ω

s) by summation,

(d) making a first correction of the transformation angle (δ

) based on a fixed dead time,

(e) measuring motor current,

(f) determining a field-oriented voltage reference value (U_sdref) given by the control means,

(g) estimating a field-orientated actual voltage value (U_sdpred) employing the magnetizing component of the measured motor current and taking into consideration a voltage drop proportional to the measured current,

(h) calculating a voltage difference (e_d) between the voltage reference value (U_sdref) and the actual voltage value U_sdpred),

(i) determining an error angle (ε

) between a voltage reference vector (U_so) and an actual voltage vector (U_'"'"'so) employing the voltage difference (e_d), assuming an approximately equal amplitude and a known phase angle of the voltage reference vector (U_so) and the actual voltage vector (U'"'"'_so),

(j) making a second correction of the transformation angle (δ

) employing the determined error angle (ε

).

2. Method according to claim 1, in which the transformation angle is changed the second time by addition of the error angle.

3. Method according to claim 2, in which the transformation angle and the error angle are determined in a two-phase system, and the transformation angle is corrected by the error angle directly prior to inverse transformation into a system having at least three phases.

4. Method according to claim 1, in which the correction for the first time and the second time are performed simultaneously.

5. Method according to claim 1, in which the corrections are effected in a rotor flux-oriented system.

6. Method according to claim 5, in which rotor magnetizing current is used as a reference vector.

7. Method according to claim 2, in which the error angle is calculated.

8. Method according to claim 7, in which the error angle is calculated from two current components oriented orthogonally with respect to one another, angular velocity of a reference vector and a voltage reference vector.

9. Method according to claim 8, in which the error angle is calculated iteratively by minimizing a difference between a voltage reference vector component and a component of an estimated voltage.

10. Method according to claim 2, in which the error angle is limited to a range of ±

0.4 radians.

11. Method for field-oriented control of an induction motor by means of a frequency converter, comprising determining a transformation angle by estimation, correcting the transformation angle a first time in dependence on one of I) the rotational speed of a rotor flux vector of the induction motor;

II) the rotational speed of the induction motor;

III) a time delay; and

combinations of I), II) and III), and correcting the transformation angle a second time by determining an error angle (e) between a voltage reference vector (U_so) and an actual voltage sector (U'"'"'_so) employing a voltage difference (e_d), and adding this error angle to the corrected transformation angle.

12. Method according to claim 11, in which the transformation angle is changed the second time by addition of the error angle.

13. Method according to claim 12, in which the transformation angle and the error angle are determined in a two-phase system, and the transformation angle is corrected by the error angle directly prior to inverse transformation into a system having at least three phases.

14. Method according to claim 11, in which the corrections are effected in a rotor flux-oriented system.

15. Method according to claim 14, in which rotor magnetizing current is used as a reference vector.

16. Method according to claim 12, in which the error angle is calculated.

17. Method according to claim 16, in which the error angle is calculated from two current components oriented orthogonally with respect to one another, angular velocity of a reference vector and a voltage reference vector.

18. Method according to claim 17, in which the voltage reference vector is a component of a reference voltage oriented in the direction of a main axis of a biaxial system of co-ordinates.

19. Method according to claim 17, in which the error angle is calculated iteratively by minimizing a difference between a voltage reference vector component and a component of estimated voltage.