Dynamometer system

• US 9,739,687 B2
• Filed: 10/06/2014
• Issued: 08/22/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meidensha Corporation
• Original Assignee: Meidensha Corporation
• Inventors: Akiyama, Takao, Sawada, Yoshimasa, Asakura, Nobuhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Kirkland, III, Freddie
• Application Number:
  US15/027,932
• Publication Number:
  US 20160252428A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,051 Days
• Field of Search: 7311605
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 3/16 Rotary-absorption dynamometers, e.g. of brake type
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 15/02 Details or accessories of testing apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 15/05 by combined monitoring of two or more different engine parameters

Abstract

Provided is a dynamometer system dynamo control device that can accurately reproduce a no-load state. The dynamo control device includes controllers that are designed, using a H-infinity control or a μ-design method, such that, for a generalized plant that outputs observation output and a controlled variable from external input and from control input, the response from the input until the variable is shortened. The generalized plant includes a dynamic characteristics model wherein the characteristics of a dynamometer system are identified such that the angular acceleration is output from the external input and the control input. The controlled variable is the difference between the angular acceleration calculated for an engine alone on the basis of the external input and the angular acceleration calculated by the dynamic characteristics model.

Claims

1. A dynamo control device for a dynamometer system, the dynamometer system including a dynamometer connected to a test piece generating torque in response to a command from an external control device through an intermediate connection body, a torque detector detecting torsional torque of the intermediate connection body, a rotation speed detector detecting a rotation speed of the dynamometer, and an inverter supplying electric power to the dynamometer, the dynamo control device for the dynamometer system generating a torque current command to the inverter based on detection signals of the torque detector and the rotation speed detector so as to realize a no-load state where a load is not applied to the test piece,

wherein the dynamo control device includes a controller designed by applying a control system design method called an H∞

control or a μ

synthesis to a generalized plant,

wherein the generalized plant outputs a first observation output corresponding to the detection signal of the torque detector, a second observation output corresponding to the detection signal of the rotation speed detector and a prescribed controlled variable from an external input corresponding to torque generated in the test piece and a control input corresponding to the torque current command,

wherein the generalized plant includes a dynamic characteristic model identifying a characteristic of the dynamometer system so that angular acceleration of the test piece is output from the external input and the control input based on the equation of motion of a three-inertia system,

wherein the three-inertia system is configured by connecting the test piece, the intermediate connection body and the dynamometer each having an original inertia moment,

wherein the controlled variable of the generalized plant is a signal obtained by multiplying a weighting function having an integration characteristic by a difference between angular acceleration of the test piece in the state of being disconnected from the intermediate connection body and the dynamometer calculated by multiplying an inverse number of the inertia moment of the test piece by the external input and angular acceleration of the test piece calculated by the dynamic characteristic model, and

wherein the controller is designed by numerical calculation based on the control system design method so that responsiveness from the external input to the controlled variable in the generalized plant decreases.

2. The dynamo control device for the dynamometer system according to claim 1, wherein the dynamic characteristic model of the generalized plant includes an inverter model identifying a characteristic of the inverter, a mechanical model identifying a characteristic of the three-inertia system, a torque detection model identifying a characteristic of the torque detector, and a rotation speed detection model identifying a characteristic of the rotation speed detector.

3. The dynamo control device for the dynamometer system according to claim 2, wherein an output obtained by multiplying the control input by a prescribed proportional gain is set as an input of the inverter model,

wherein an output of an integrator provided in an output terminal of the torque detection model is set as a first observation output, and

wherein an output of a proportional gain provided in an output terminal of the rotation speed detection model is set as a second observation output.

4. The dynamo control device for the dynamometer system according to claim 2, wherein the control input is set as an input of the inverter model,

wherein an output obtained by multiplying a prescribed proportional gain by a difference between an output of the rotation speed detection model multiplied by a prescribed proportional gain and an output of an integrator provided in an output terminal of the torque detection model is set as a first observation output, and

wherein an output of the torque detection model is set as a second observation output.

5. The dynamo control device for the dynamometer system according to claim 2, wherein an output obtained by combining the control input with an output obtained by multiplying a prescribed proportional gain by a difference between an output of the rotation speed detection model multiplied by a prescribed proportional gain and an output of an integrator provided in an output terminal of the torque detection model is set as an input of the inverter model, and

wherein an output of the torque detection model is set as an observation output.

6. The dynamo control device for the dynamometer system according to claim 2, wherein the control input is set as an input of the inverter model, and

wherein an output obtained by multiplying a prescribed proportional gain by a difference between an output of the rotation speed detection model multiplied by a prescribed proportional gain and an output of an integrator provided in an output terminal of the torque detection model is set as an observation output.

7. The dynamo control device for the dynamometer system according to claim 2, wherein the control input is set as an input of the inverter model,

wherein an output obtained by multiplying a prescribed proportional gain by a difference between an output of the rotation speed detection model multiplied by a prescribed proportional gain and an output of an integrator provided in an output terminal of the torque detection model is set as a first observation output, and

wherein an output of a high-pass filter provided in the output terminal of the torque detection model is set as a second observation output.

8. The dynamo control device for the dynamometer system according to claim 2, wherein an output obtained by multiplying a prescribed proportional gain by the control input is set as an input of the inverter model,

wherein an output of the torque detection model is set as a first observation output, and

wherein a difference between an output of the rotation speed detection model multiplied by a prescribed proportional gain and an output of the torque detection model is set as a second observation output.