Abstract:
Systems and methods are provided for controlling and simulating a motor. An electronic motor controller determines present motor information and a motor control parameter set based on the present motor information and a rotating reference frame of the motor. The rotating reference frame has independent input channels that decouple an intended output response in a stator D-axis component and a rotor field (R) component of a direct-quadrature-null-rotor (DQNR) reference frame. The electronic motor controller further controls the motor based on the motor control parameter set.
Abstract:
An electric machine is presented. The electric machine includes a stator. The electric machine further includes rotor disposed adjacent to the stator. The rotor includes a rotor core, a plurality of permanent magnets disposed in contact with the rotor core, a plurality of permanent magnets disposed in contact with the rotor core to modulate torque exerted on the rotor.
Abstract:
Provided is a control device for an electric generator/motor, which includes an armature winding and a field winding, the control device including: a bridge circuit configured to energize the armature winding; a field circuit configured to energize the field winding; and an energization control unit configured to control the energization of the bridge circuit and the field circuit. The energization control unit is configured to perform, when performing switching between a generation mode and a drive mode in response to an external command to control the electric generator/motor, control on a current supply amount for the field winding, and vector control on a current supply amount for the armature winding so as to compensate for a variation in field current.
Abstract:
A power tool is provided including a brushless DC (BLDC) motor, a rectifier that receives an alternative current from a power supply and outputs a rectified signal supplied to a DC power bus, and an inverter circuit having motor switches connected electrically between the DC power bus and the motor. A control module controls a switching operation of the power switches to regulate supply power from the power supply to the motor. The control module controls the switching operation so as to, within a half cycle of the AC power supply voltage waveform, increase current draw from the power supply from a first threshold at or after a first zero-crossing of the half cycle up to a second threshold, and reduce current draw from the power supply from the second threshold up to a third threshold at or prior to a second zero-crossing of the half cycle.
Abstract:
An actuator assembly includes an electric motor including a rotor assembly and a stator assembly configured to be actuated to cause the rotor assembly to rotate based on an amount of magnetic flux in the rotor assembly is disclosed. The assembly also includes a controllable magnetic device coupled to the rotor assembly, an actuator coupled to the rotor assembly; and a controller configured to apply electric current to the controllable magnetic device to adjust an amount of torque provided by the electric motor by adjusting the magnetic flux in the rotor assembly.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for determining the phase currents through phase windings (12) and an excitation current through an excitation winding (13) of an electrical machine (11), wherein an excitation winding (13) is connected between a star point (14) of the phase windings (12) and a defined reference potential, the method comprising the following steps: —periodic driving of the electrical machine (11) with a predefined pulse pattern (30); —determining a respective measurement current (Imess) in a plurality of temporal measuring windows (31, 32, 33) of a measuring period (37), wherein the measurement currents (Imess) correspond to currents through one of the phase windings (12) and through one or more parallel connections of a plurality of the phase windings (12); and —determining the phase currents and the excitation current by evaluating the measurement currents (Imess) determined during the measuring period (37).
Abstract:
A motor control method for controlling a motor by transmitting a PWM signal at a predetermined carrier frequency to a power converter configured to supply power to the motor and performing switching control on the power converter, the method including, in a characteristic coordinate having a rotation speed of the motor and a torque of the motor as axes, setting the carrier frequency to be a reference frequency when an operating point representing a current rotation speed and torque is included in a first region, selecting and setting the carrier frequency to be either the reference frequency or a low frequency lower than the reference frequency when the operating point is included in a second region, and setting the carrier frequency to be the low frequency when the operating point is included in a third region.
Abstract:
A resonant power supply, a primary-side feedback excitation power supply controller, a method, and a control apparatus are disclosed. In the resonant power supply, a bridge circuit is electrically connected to a power supply. The bridge circuit is configured to convert, based on a drive signal, a direct current provided by the power supply into a square wave signal. An LC series resonant network is electrically connected to the bridge circuit and a primary-side winding. The LC series resonant network is configured to convert the square wave signal into an alternating current, and output the alternating current to the primary-side winding. The alternating current includes an input voltage Vt and an input current Ir.
Abstract:
A motor control device includes processing circuitry configured to calculate a current command value corresponding to torque that should be generated by a motor, divide the calculated current command value into individual current command values for coil groups, control power feeding to the coil groups independently for each of the coil groups based on a corresponding one of the individual current command values, set, for each one of the coil groups, an upper limit value of a corresponding one of the individual current command values and, when the individual current command value for any one of the coil groups is limited to a value that is smaller than a corresponding one of the upper limit values, supplement an amount limited in the individual current command value by increasing the individual current command value for at least a remaining one of the coil groups.
Abstract:
A power tool is provided including a brushless DC (BLDC) motor, a rectifier that receives an alternative current from a power supply and outputs a rectified signal supplied to a DC power bus, and an inverter circuit having motor switches connected electrically between the DC power bus and the motor. A control module controls a switching operation of the power switches to regulate supply power from the power supply to the motor. The control module controls the switching operation so as to, within a half cycle of the AC power supply voltage waveform, increase current draw from the power supply from a first threshold at or after a first zero-crossing of the half cycle up to a second threshold, and reduce current draw from the power supply from the second threshold up to a third threshold at or prior to a second zero-crossing of the half cycle.