Controller For Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor and Motor Control System

• US 20090322262A1
• Filed: 06/24/2009
• Published: 12/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Sumita, Satoshi, Aoyagi, Shigehisa, Tobari, Kazuaki
• Application Number:
  US12/490,850
• Publication Number:
  US 20090322262A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 318/400.02
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 21/18 Estimation of position or speed

Abstract

A motor control system includes a power converter, a vector controller for controlling the power converter, an axial error estimating operation for estimating an axial error which is a deviation between the phase estimation value and phase value of the motor, and a rotational speed estimating computing unit 5 for performing control so as to equalize the estimation value to a command of the axial error, a motor constant identification computing unit. The motor constant identification computing unit identifies a motor constant with a q-axis voltage component and a rotational speed identified value or a rotational speed command to reflect the identified motor constant in the vector controller.

Claims

1. A controller for controlling a power converter to be connected to a permanent magnet synchronous motor, comprising:

a current detector configured to detect a current flowing through the permanent magnet synchronous motor;

a vector controller configured to, on the basis the detected current, generate a control signal for controlling the power converter;

an axial error estimation computing unit configured to estimate an axial error information which is a difference between a phase estimation value obtained by integrating a rotational speed estimation value of the permanent magnet synchronous motor and a phase value of the permanent magnet synchronous motor and generate a q-axis voltage component value on the basis of voltage command signals and the detected current;

a rotational speed estimation value computing unit configured to perform control so that the axial error information estimated by the axial error estimation computing unit is identical with an axial error information command; and

a motor constant identification computing unit configured to identify a motor constant of the permanent magnet synchronous motor with the q-axis voltage component value and either of the rotational speed estimation value of the permanent magnet synchronous motor or a rotational speed command and reflect the identified motor constant in controlling the power converter by the vector controller.

2. The controller as claimed in claim 1, wherein the identified motor constant comprises an induced voltage coefficient of the permanent magnet synchronous motor and a setting error of a winding resistance of the permanent magnet synchronous motor, and the axial error estimation computing unit computes the q-axis voltage component value from a sum of a product of the setting error of the winding resistance and a q-axis current estimation value estimated from the detected current and a product of the rotational speed estimation value and the induced voltage coefficient.

3. The controller as claimed claim 2, wherein the motor constant identifying computing unit identifies the winding resistance of the permanent magnet synchronous motor when at least one of the rotational speed estimation value and a rotational speed command value is lower than a first predetermined rotational speed at a low rotational speed range, and the motor constant identification computing unit identifies a ratio between the induced voltage coefficient of the identified motor constant and a setting value of the induced voltage coefficient in the vector controller when at least one of the rotational estimation value and the rotational speed command is higher than a second predetermined rotational speed at a high rotational speed range.

4. The controller as claimed in claim 1, wherein the motor constant identification computing unit multiplies, at the low rational speed range, the rotational speed estimation value or the rotational speed command by a setting value of the induced voltage coefficient of the permanent magnet synchronous motor to output a multiplied value, subtracts the multiplied value from the q-axis voltage component value to output a subtraction result, performs a proportional integration with the subtraction result to output a proportional integration result, adds the proportional integration result to the setting value of a winding resistance of the permanent magnet synchronous motor in the axial error estimation computing unit, and in a high rotational speed range, multiplies the rotational speed estimation value or the rotational speed command by the setting value of the induced voltage coefficient to output a multiplied result, computes a ratio between the multiplied result and the q-axis voltage component value, and corrects the setting value of a torque coefficient of the permanent magnet synchronous motor on the basis of the ratio.

5. The controller as claimed in claim 1, wherein the vector controller corrects the setting values of the permanent magnet synchronous motor used in generating the control signal with the motor constant identified by the motor constant identification computing unit.

6. The controller as claimed in claim 1, wherein the vector controller corrects a control gain with the identified constants of the motor identified by the motor constant identification computing unit.

7. A motor control system comprising:

a permanent magnet synchronous motor;

a power converter connected to the motor, a current detector configured to detect a current flowing through the permanent magnet synchronous motor, a controller generating a control signal for controlling the power converter;

the controller comprising;

a vector controller configured to generate the control signal on the basis of the detected current;

an axial error estimating computing unit configured to estimate an axial error information which is a difference between a phase value of the motor and the phase estimation value obtained by integrating a rotational speed estimation value of the motor and generate a q-axis voltage component;

a rotational speed estimating computing unit for performing control so as to equalize the estimation value operated by the axial error estimating computing unit to a command of the axial error information, and

a motor constant identification computing unit configured to identify a motor constant of the permanent magnet synchronous motor with the q-axis voltage component and the rotational estimation value or a rotational speed command and reflects the identified motor constant in generating the control signal by the vector controller.