Method and system for detecting fault of serial coil type permanent magnet motor

• US 8,913,353 B2
• Filed: 04/09/2013
• Issued: 12/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Korea Electronics Technology Institute (Government of South Korea)
• Original Assignee: Korea Electronics Technology Institute (Government of South Korea)
• Inventors: Gu, Bon Gwan, Choi, Jun Hyuk, Jung, In Soung, Park, Joon Sung, Kim, Jin Hong
• Primary Examiner(s): Phillips, Forrest M
• Application Number:
  US13/859,304
• Publication Number:
  US 20140160602A1
• Time in Patent Office: 616 Days
• Field of Search: 361/31
• US Class Current: 361/31
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/34 Testing dynamo-electric machines
• CPC Class Codes: H02H 7/08 for dynamo-electric motors
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 29/0243 the fault being a broken phase

Abstract

A method and system for detecting a fault of a serial coil type permanent magnet motor includes driving the motor based on a predefined current reference value, detecting a phase current vector of the motor, and calculating a current compensation value for removing a negative sequence component of the motor based on the phase current vector. The current compensation value is provided to a negative sequence current controller for calculating a faulty phase and a degree of a fault of the motor using the output of the negative sequence current controller and a fault model to which induced magnetic flux variations in a specific slot of a specific faulty phase of the motor and other slots of the same phase as the specific phase are applied, and applying a current reference value to which the calculated faulty phase and degree of fault are applied.

Claims

1. A system supporting detection of a fault of a serial coil type permanent magnet motor, the system comprising:

a serial coil type motor;

a current sensor configured to sense stator phase current of the motor;

a compensation current calculator configured to calculate a current compensation value for a negative sequence component generated in the motor on the basis of the sensed phase current;

a positive sequence current controller configured to generate a control signal for an inverter control by using the current compensation value and also using a current reference value provided from a control system;

a negative sequence current controller configured to generate a signal for removing the negative sequence component by using both the current compensation value and the current reference value, and then to provide the signal to the positive sequence current controller;

an inverter configured to generate a motor operation signal according to the control signal;

a fault detector configured to detect a faulty phase and a degree of a fault by applying the output of the negative sequence current controller to a mathematically defined fault model; and

the control system configured to provide the current reference value to which the faulty phase and the degree of fault are applied,

wherein the fault model of the fault detector is a fault model to which a magnetic flux variation in a specific slot of a specific faulty phase of the motor and an induced magnetic flux variation in a slot of the same phase as the specific phase are applied.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the compensation current calculator is further configured to convert a 3-phase voltage into a 2-phase synchronous reference frame, and then to calculate the current compensation value for compensating for the negative sequence component.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein balanced currents of the motor for compensating for the negative sequence component are

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the motor is a 3-phase motor and, and when a fault corresponding to x (the ratio of a faultless coil to a faulty phase and faulty pole pair) is generated in A-phase, a magnetic flux equation of the fault model is

5. The system of claim 4, wherein fault current i_f due to turn short circuit is

6. The system of claim 5, wherein a synchronous reference frame value of a voltage value obtained by filtering the output of the negative sequence current controller is as follows

7. A method for detecting a fault of a serial coil type permanent magnet motor, the method comprising the steps of:

driving the serial coil type permanent motor based on a predefined current reference value;

detecting a phase current vector of the motor;

calculating a current compensation value for removing a negative sequence component of the motor based on the phase current vector;

providing the current compensation value to a negative sequence current controller and calculating a faulty phase and a degree of a fault of the serial coil type permanent motor using the output of the negative sequence current controller and a fault model to which induced magnetic flux variations in a specific slot of a specific faulty phase of the serial coil type permanent motor and other slots of the same phase as the specific phase are applied; and

applying a current reference value to which the calculated faulty phase and degree of fault are applied.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the step of applying the current reference value includes adjusting the velocity and phase current of the motor based on the faulty phase and degree of fault to suppress generation of overcurrent.