Power converting apparatus for motor driving

• US 8,258,735 B2
• Filed: 12/15/2008
• Issued: 09/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nexgen Control Systems LLC
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Kitanaka, Hidetoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Ip, Paul
• Application Number:
  US13/119,893
• Publication Number:
  US 20110175558A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,359 Days
• Field of Search: 318/400.02, 318/400.3, 318/400.9, 318/716, 318/801, 318/805
• US Class Current: 318/400.3
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 15/025 using field orientation; Vector control; Direct Torque Control [DTC]
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 15/20 for control of the vehicle or its driving motor to achieve a desired performance, e.g. speed, torque, programmed variation of speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 15/2009 for braking
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2200/26 Rail vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2220/14 Synchronous machines
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/12 Speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/421 Speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/423 Torque
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/527 Voltage
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/529 Current
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/51 characterised by AC-motors
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 7/14 for vehicles propelled by ac motors
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 21/0089 using field weakening
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 21/05 specially adapted for damping motor oscillations, e.g. for reducing hunting
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 21/22 Current control, e.g. using a current control loop
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 2209/13 Different type of waveforms depending on the mode of operation
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 27/08 with pulse width modulation
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/64 Electric machine technologies in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/72 Electric energy management in electromobility

Abstract

A second control unit includes a current-command generating unit that generates, based on a torque command T*, a current command of the motor, a voltage-amplitude-index calculating unit that calculates, based on the current command, a voltage amplitude index (a modulation ratio PMF), a current-command adjusting unit that generates, based on the modulation ratio PMF and a frequency FINV of the motor, a current command adjustment amount dV, and a voltage command/PWM signal generating unit including a pulsation-suppression-signal generating unit that generates, based on a DC voltage EFC, a pulsation suppression signal for suppressing a pulsation component of a power supply 2f component to generate a gate signal (a PWM signal) to an inverter.

Claims

1. A power converting apparatus for motor driving comprising:

a first power converting unit that is connected to an AC power supply and converts an AC voltage from the AC power supply into a DC voltage;

a second power converting unit that is connected to the first power converting unit and converts the DC voltage into the AC voltage and outputs the AC voltage to an AC motor;

a first control unit that controls the first power converting unit; and

a second control unit that controls the second power converting unit, wherein

the second control unit includes;

a current-command generating unit that generates, based on at least a torque command, a current command for the AC motor;

a voltage-amplitude-index calculating unit that calculates, based on the current command, a voltage amplitude index that should be applied to the AC motor;

a current-command adjusting unit that generates, based on at least the voltage amplitude index and a frequency of the AC motor, a current command adjustment amount for adjusting the current command; and

a pulsation-suppression-signal generating unit that generates, based on the DC voltage, a pulsation suppression signal, and

the second control unit generates, based on a control signal including the current command adjusted by the current command adjustment amount and the pulsation suppression signal, a PWM signal to the second power converting unit and outputs the PWM signal.

2. The power converting apparatus for motor driving according to claim 1, wherein the second control unit controls, when the frequency of the AC motor is present in a predetermined range, a voltage output by the second power converting unit to a predetermined value smaller than a maximum voltage that can be output according to the DC voltage.

3. The power converting apparatus for motor driving according to claim 2, wherein the second control unit selects, when control for causing torque output by the AC motor to coincide with the torque command is performed by the current-command generating unit and the current-command adjusting unit, a current command on a torque fixed line based on the torque command and on an inner side of a voltage limit line.

4. The power converting apparatus for motor driving according to claim 2, wherein the predetermined range is a range centering around a frequency twice as high as a frequency of the AC power supply.

5. The power converting apparatus for motor driving according to claim 2, wherein the predetermined value is a value equal to or larger than 90% and smaller than 100% of a maximum voltage that can be output under the DC voltage by an output voltage of the second power converting unit.

6. The power converting apparatus for motor driving according to claim 1, wherein the current-command adjusting unit includes a voltage-amplitude-target-command generating unit that generates, based on the frequency of the AC motor, a voltage amplitude target command indicating a maximum value of the voltage amplitude index.

7. The power converting apparatus for motor driving according to claim 6, wherein the current-command adjusting unit generates, based on a deviation between the voltage amplitude target command and the voltage amplitude index, the current command adjustment amount.

8. The power converting apparatus for motor driving according to claim 6, wherein the voltage-amplitude-target-command generating unit generates, when the frequency of the AC motor is present in a predetermined range, the voltage amplitude target command for setting an output voltage of the second power converting unit to a predetermined value smaller than a maximum voltage that can be output according to the DC voltage.

9. The power converting apparatus for motor driving according to claim 1, wherein

the current-command generating unit generates a first d-axis current command, which is a magnetic flux component current of the AC motor, from the torque command, adjusts the first d-axis current command according to the current command adjustment amount to generate a second d-axis current command, and generates, based on the torque command and the second d-axis current command, a first q-axis current command, which is a torque component current, and

the voltage-amplitude-index calculating unit calculates, based on the second d-axis current command and the first q-axis current command, the voltage amplitude index.

10. The power converting apparatus for motor driving according to claim 1, wherein

the second control unit includes:

a pulse-mode switching unit that switches a pulse mode of the second power converting unit; and

a pulse-mode selecting unit that selects, according to control by the pulse-mode switching unit, at least one of a plurality of pulse modes including an asynchronous pulse mode for generating the PWM signal asynchronously with the frequency of the AC motor and a synchronous pulse mode for generating the PWM signal in synchronization with the frequency of the AC motor, and

the second control unit selects, when the frequency of the AC motor is present in a predetermined range centering around a frequency twice as high as a frequency of the AC power supply, the synchronous pulse mode as the pulse mode.

11. The power converting apparatus for motor driving according to claim 10, wherein the pulse-mode selecting unit selects, based on at least the voltage amplitude index not including the pulsation suppression signal, the pulse mode.

12. The power converting apparatus for motor driving according to claim 1, wherein

the second control unit includes:

a pulse-mode switching unit that switches a pulse mode of the second power converting unit; and

a pulse-mode selecting unit that selects, according to control by the pulse-mode switching unit, at least one of a plurality of pulse modes including an asynchronous pulse mode for generating the PWM signal asynchronously with the frequency of the AC motor and a synchronous three-pulse mode for generating the PWM signal, a number of pulses of which in a voltage half period is three, generated in synchronization with the frequency of the AC motor, and

the second control unit selects, when the frequency of the AC motor is present in a predetermined range centering around a frequency twice as high as a frequency of the AC power supply, the synchronous three-pulse mode as the pulse mode.

13. The power converting apparatus for motor driving according to claim 12, wherein the pulse-mode selecting unit selects, based on at least the voltage amplitude index not including the pulsation suppression signal, the pulse mode.

14. A power converting apparatus for motor driving comprising:

a first power converting unit that is connected to an AC power supply and converts an AC voltage from the AC power supply into a DC voltage;

a second power converting unit that is connected to the first power converting unit and converts the DC voltage into the AC voltage and outputs the AC voltage to an AC motor;

a first control unit that controls the first power converting unit; and

a second control unit that controls the second power converting unit, wherein

the second control unit includes;

a current-command generating unit that generates, based on at least a torque command, a current command for the AC motor; and

a voltage-amplitude-index calculating unit that calculates, based on the current command, a voltage amplitude index that should be applied to the AC motor, and

the first control unit includes;

a DC-voltage-command generating unit that generates a DC voltage command, which is a target value of the DC voltage; and

a voltage control unit that generates a control signal such that the DC voltage and the DC voltage command to coincide with each other, and

the DC voltage command generated when the frequency of the AC motor is present in a predetermined range is generated to be larger than the DC voltage command generated when the frequency of the AC motor is not present in the predetermined range.

15. The power converting apparatus for motor driving according to claim 14, wherein the DC-voltage-command generating unit generates, based on the frequency of the AC motor, the DC voltage command.

16. The power converting apparatus for motor driving according to claim 14, wherein the DC-voltage-command generating unit generates, based on the voltage amplitude index, the DC voltage command.

17. The power converting apparatus for motor driving according to claim 14, wherein the DC-voltage-command generating unit generates, based on the frequency of the AC motor and the voltage amplitude index, the DC voltage command.

18. The power converting apparatus for motor driving according to claim 14, wherein the DC-voltage-command generating unit generates, based on the frequency of the AC motor, a target value indicating a maximum of the voltage amplitude index and generates, based on the target value indicating the maximum of the voltage amplitude index and the voltage amplitude index, the DC voltage command.

19. The power converting apparatus for motor driving according to claim 14, wherein the predetermined range is a range centering around a frequency twice as high as a frequency of the AC power supply.

20. The power converting apparatus for motor driving according to claim 14, wherein the predetermined value is a value equal to or larger than 90% and smaller than 100% of a maximum voltage that can be output under the DC voltage by an output voltage of the second power converting unit.