Motor control device

• US 7,898,197 B2
• Filed: 07/24/2008
• Issued: 03/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Tomigashi, Yoshio
• Primary Examiner(s): IP, SHIK LUEN PAUL
• Application Number:
  US12/178,983
• Publication Number:
  US 20090026988A1
• Time in Patent Office: 950 Days
• Field of Search: 318/400.02, 318/254, 318/432, 318/801, 318/802, 318/807, 318/811, 318/727
• US Class Current: 318/400.02
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/0009 Devices or circuits for detecting current in a converter
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 21/10 Direct field-oriented control; Rotor flux feed-back control
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 21/14 Estimation or adaptation of machine parameters, e.g. flux, current or voltage
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 21/141 Flux estimation
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 27/08 with pulse width modulation

Abstract

A motor control device includes a motor current detector for detecting motor current flowing in a three-phase motor based on current flowing between an inverter driving the motor and a DC power supply, a specified voltage vector generating portion for generating a specified voltage vector indicating a voltage vector to which an applied voltage to the motor should follow based on a magnetic flux linkage of an armature winding of the motor, a specified voltage vector correcting portion for correcting the generated specified voltage vector, and a magnetic flux estimating portion for estimating the magnetic flux linkage based on the motor current and the specified voltage vector after the correction. The motor control device controls the motor via the inverter in accordance with the specified voltage vector after the correction.

Claims

1. A motor control device comprising:

a motor current detector for detecting motor current flowing in a three-phase motor based on current flowing between an inverter driving the motor and a DC power supply;

a specified voltage vector generating portion for generating a specified voltage vector indicating a voltage vector to which an applied voltage to the motor should follow based on a magnetic flux linkage of an armature winding of the motor;

a specified voltage vector correcting portion for correcting the generated specified voltage vector; and

a magnetic flux estimating portion for estimating the magnetic flux linkage based on the motor current and the specified voltage vector after the correction, wherein

the motor control device controls the motor via the inverter in accordance with the specified voltage vector after the correction.

2. The motor control device according to claim 1, wherein

the specified voltage vector generated by the specified voltage vector generating portion is a specified voltage vector on a rotating coordinate,

the specified voltage vector correcting portion corrects the specified voltage vector on the rotating coordinate in the process of converting the specified voltage vector on the rotating coordinate into specified three-phase voltage values on a three-phase fixed coordinate, and

the motor control device supplies the specified three-phase voltage values corresponding to the specified voltage vector after the correction to the inverter so as to control the motor.

3. The motor control device according to claim 1, wherein the specified voltage vector generated by the specified voltage vector generating portion is a two-phase specified voltage vector on ab coordinates rotating step by step of 60 degrees of electrical angle in accordance with a phase of the specified voltage vector with respect to a predetermined fixed-axis.

4. The motor control device according to claim 3, wherein the specified voltage vector correcting portion decides whether or not the correction is necessary based on a magnitude of a coordinate axis component constituting the two-phase specified voltage vector on the ab coordinates, and if it is decided that the correction is necessary, the specified voltage vector correcting portion corrects the coordinate axis component so that the two-phase specified voltage vector on the ab coordinates is corrected.

5. The motor control device according to claim 3, further comprising a coordinate converting portion for converting the two-phase specified voltage vector on the ab coordinates after the correction performed by the specified voltage vector correcting portion into a specified voltage vector on α

β

coordinates having fixed α and

β

axes as its coordinate axes, wherein

the magnetic flux estimating portion estimates the magnetic flux linkage based on the motor current and the specified voltage vector on the α

β

coordinates.

6. The motor control device according to claim 3, further comprising a coordinate converting portion for converting the two-phase specified voltage vector on the ab coordinates after the correction performed by the specified voltage vector correcting portion into a specified voltage vector on α

β

coordinates having fixed α and

β

axes as its coordinate axes, wherein

the magnetic flux estimating portion estimates coordinate axis components of the magnetic flux linkage on the α

β

coordinates based on coordinate axis components of the motor current on the α

β

coordinates and the specified voltage vector on the α

β

coordinates.

7. The motor control device according to claim 1, further comprising a torque estimating portion for estimating a torque generated by the motor based on the motor current and the estimated magnetic flux linkage, wherein

the motor control device performs direct torque control of the motor based on the estimated torque.

8. The motor control device according to claim 1, further comprising a rotor position estimating portion for estimating a rotor position of the motor based on the estimated magnetic flux linkage, wherein

the motor control device performs vector control of the motor based on the estimated rotor position.

9. A motor driving system comprising:

a three-phase motor;

an inverter for driving the motor; and

the motor control device according to claim 1 for controlling the inverter so as to control the motor.