Method and device for determining the rotary speed of an electrical machine

• US 7,508,153 B2
• Filed: 12/05/2006
• Issued: 03/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Schanzenbach, Matthias, Hachtel, Juergen
• Primary Examiner(s): Duda; Rina I
• Application Number:
  US11/634,445
• Publication Number:
  US 20070140669A1
• Time in Patent Office: 840 Days
• Field of Search: 318/811, 318/599, 318/459, 318/500, 318/461, 388/800, 388/819, 388/815, 388/821, 388/928.1
• US Class Current: 318/599
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 3/46 by measuring amplitude of generated current or voltage in general G01R19/00
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 2203/09 Motor speed determination based on the current and/or voltage without using a tachogenerator or a physical encoder
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 7/29 using pulse modulation

Abstract

A method for determining the rotary speed of an electrical machine, especially of a direct current motor, which is controlled in PWM operation, the tracking voltage of the electrical machine being measured and the rotary speed being ascertained from that. The rotary speed fluctuations are able to be substantially reduced if the electrical machine is controlled using a control signal which has a PWM phase, in which the electrical machine is periodically switched on and off using a prespecified pulse duty factor, and which has a measuring phase in which the electrical machine is switched off. The rotary speed is measured in the measuring phases, in this instance, and is calculated in the PWM phases based on a model.

Claims

1. A method for determining a rotary speed of an electrical machine, which is controlled in PWM operation, the method comprising:

ascertaining the rotary speed from a tracking voltage, which is measured in a turnoff phase;

estimating the rotary speed in the PWM phase with the aid of a mathematical model, wherein the rotary speed is ascertained in the PWM phase with the aid of a recursive function

ω

_i=ω

<sub>i−

1</sub>+Δ

ω

, where Δ

ω

=f(U_k,ω

<sub>i−

1</sub>);

and

controlling the electrical machine using a control signal, which has a PWM phase in which the electrical machine is periodically switched on and off using a prespecified pulse duty factor, and which has a measuring phase in which the electrical machine is switched off and the tracking voltage is measured.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the electrical machine is a direct current motor.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein a duration of the measuring phase is greater than a clock-pulse period of the control signal in the PWM phase.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein a duration of the measuring phase is in the ms range.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein a duration of a clock-pulse period of the control signal in the PWM phase is in the μ

s range.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the duration of the measuring phase amounts to between 1 ms and 5 ms.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein a duration of the PWM phase amounts to between 10 ms and 100 ms.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein a duration of the PWM phase is substantially greater than a duration of the measuring phase.

9. A device for determining a rotary speed of an electrical machine, which is controlled in PWM operation, comprising:

a voltage sensor for measuring a tracking voltage;

an electronic system for determining the rotary speed from the measured tracking voltage;

an arrangement for estimating the rotary speed in the PWM phase with the aid of a mathematical model, wherein the rotary speed is ascertained in the PWM phase with the aid of a recursive function

ω

_i=ω

<sub>i−

1</sub>+Δ

ω

, where Δ

ω

=f(U_k,ω

<sub>i−

1</sub>);

and

an arrangement for controlling the electrical machine using a control signal, which has a PWM phase in which the electrical machine is periodically switched on and off using a prespecified pulse duty factor, and which has a measuring phase in which the electrical machine is switched into a regenerative operation and the tracking voltage is measured.

10. The device according to claim 9, wherein the electrical machine is a direct current motor.

11. A device for determining a rotary speed of an electrical machine, which is controlled in PWM operation, comprising:

an electronic system for determining the rotary speed from a measured tracking voltage, which is measured in a turnoff phase;

an arrangement for estimating the rotary speed in the PWM phase with the aid of a mathematical model, wherein the rotary speed is ascertained in the PWM phase with the aid of a recursive function

ω

_i=ω

<sub>i−

1</sub>+Δ

ω

, where Δ

ω

=f(U_k,ω

<sub>i−

1</sub>);

and

an arrangement for controlling the electrical machine using a control signal, which has a PWM phase in which the electrical machine is periodically switched on and off using a prespecified pulse duty factor, and which has a measuring phase in which the electrical machine is switched off and the tracking voltage is measured.

12. The device according to claim 11, wherein the electrical machine is a direct current motor.

13. The device according to claim 11, further comprising a voltage sensor for measuring a tracking voltage.

14. The device according to claim 11, wherein a duration of the measuring phase is greater than a clock-pulse period of the control signal in the PWM phase.

15. The method according to claim 11, wherein a duration of the measuring phase is in the ms range.

16. The method according to claim 11, wherein a duration of a clock-pulse period of the control signal in the PWM phase is in the μ

s range.

17. The method according to claim 11, wherein the duration of the measuring phase amounts to between 1 ms and 5 ms.

18. The method according to claim 11, wherein a duration of the PWM phase amounts to between 10 ms and 100 ms.

19. The method according to claim 11, wherein a duration of the PWM phase is substantially greater than a duration of the measuring phase.