To provide an AC rotary machine controller which can improve setting accuracy of torque command correction value in a region where change of torque command correction value to change of rotational speed and torque becomes large and where nonlinearity is high, and can suppress increase in data amount of correction value setting map. In correction value setting map, one or both of a torque axis unequal interval setting that sets interval of the torque command map axis to unequal interval in each rotational speed; and a rotation axis unequal interval setting that sets interval of the rotational speed map axis to unequal interval were done.

A motor drive device includes a detecting unit that detects a rotational position of a rotor, a drive waveform generating circuit that generates a drive waveform, a control unit that synchronizes a phase of the rotational position of the rotor and a phase of the drive waveform, and a phase difference setting unit that sets a phase difference between the rotational position and the drive waveform during synchronization. An Apos generating unit calculates and outputs a position count proportional to a rotation amount of the rotor. A Bpos generating unit acquires the position count from the Apos generating unit and converts the count into a count value with the upper limit value as the maximum value. A Cpos generating unit multiplies the count value acquired from the Bpos generating unit by the conversion ratio, and calculates a count value with a predetermined upper limit value as the maximum value.

A method and a parameter estimation system are provided for controlling an electrical machine, (e.g., an induction motor), powered by a drive unit. The method and the parameter estimation system disclosed herein detect a travelling wave generated on a linking element disposed between a first connection point, which is at least one terminal of the electrical machine, and a second connection point, which is at least one terminal of the drive unit. Further, the method and the parameter estimation system disclosed herein obtain at least one of a plurality of wave characteristics associated with the travelling wave, (e.g., an amplitude, a width, a frequency, a travel time of the travelling wave). Further, the method and the parameter estimation system disclosed herein determine one or more control parameters, (e.g., an operational torque and speed), of the electrical machine based on at least one of the wave characteristics.

A motor driving apparatus including an inverter having a plurality of switching devices, wherein the inverter converts a direct current (DC) power into an alternating current (AC) power according to switching of the switching devices and supplies the AC power to a motor, and a controller to control the inverter, wherein the controller performs a control operation such that a switching frequency of the respective switching devices of the inverter remains constant in a first mode corresponding to a motor operation mode and performs a control operation to change the switching frequency of the respective switching devices of the inverter in a second mode corresponding to a sound output mode for fault diagnosis to output sound corresponding to the changed switching frequency.

In a hybrid vehicle, noise occurrence caused in a rectangular wave control of a motor is restricted when a motor running mode is selected with a converter boosting limit applied. A motor controller for a hybrid vehicle mounted with an internal combustion engine and a motor as power sources is provided. The motor controller includes a converter capable of boosting a voltage supplied from a power supply device; an inverter which converts an output voltage of the converter to an AC voltage and applies the AC voltage to the motor; and a control unit which controls the inverter to drive the motor by switching between two or more control modes. When a running mode to drive the vehicle by a motor power alone is selected with a boost limit applied to the output voltage of the converter and when the motor is driven in a rectangular wave control mode or an overmodulation PWM control mode, the control unit raises the output voltage of the converter higher than a boost limit value and controls the inverter such that the control mode is switched to drive the motor in a sinusoidal PWM control mode.

In a motor drive apparatus, the brushless motor has a three-phase motor structure, the Hall sensor detects a magnetic flux change signal in an operation of the brushless motor, the control unit obtains a rotor rotation number of the brushless motor (11) based on the magnetic flux change signal, calculates a predetermined electric angle even when the rotor rotation number is changed, and causes the gate driver to output a PWM signal by which a power distribution timing to each phase of the brushless motor is switched at the predetermined electric angle, and the inverter sinusoidally changes and supplies a voltage supply to a stator coil of the brushless motor based on the PWM signal.

The invention mainly relates to a method for controlling a rotating electrical machine (7) interacting with a motor vehicle gearbox (1), characterized in that, during a phase of synchronization between two speed ratios (R1-Rn) during which the rotating electrical machine (7) is controlled for speed and there is a change of the type of modulation with transition from modulation of the full-wave type (FW) to pulse-width modulation (PWM), said method comprises a control step with the aim of limiting the variations of an output current of an inverter during the phase of change of the type of modulation without compensation of torque variations.

A rotating electric machine drive system includes a rotating electric machine and a drive apparatus. The rotating electric machine includes a Y-connected three-phase stator coil. The drive apparatus supplies electric current to the stator coil and thereby drives the rotating electric machine. In a predetermined high-torque region, the drive apparatus supplies the stator coil with the electric current which has a waveform obtained by superimposing a specific harmonic waveform on a first-order harmonic waveform. The specific harmonic waveform is one of third-order and (3+6n)th-order harmonic waveforms, or a harmonic waveform which is obtained by synthesizing at least two of the third-order and (3+6n)th-order harmonic waveforms, where n is a natural number not less than 1. The specific harmonic waveform takes a negative integral value for a positive half cycle of the first-order harmonic waveform and a positive integral value for a negative half cycle of the first-order harmonic waveform.

A method is provided for operating a frequency converter, which is designed to drive a three-phase motor, wherein the frequency converter has three half-bridges each having at least two switches. The method includes the following steps: generating three phase voltages for the three-phase motor by a pulse width modulation, wherein, for the pulse width modulation, various switching patterns of the switches are activated, wherein specific star point voltages ensue for various groups of switching patterns; and in at least one operating state of the frequency converter, within a respective period of the pulse width modulation, activating only those switching patterns in which an identical star point voltage ensues.

An embedded controller in a vehicle electronics subsystem includes a signal processing circuit used to communicate with an electric machine. The signal processing circuit may be configured to receive an input signal from the electric machine and provide digital output signals to the embedded controller. The digital output signals may include Hall position and rotor position signals. Once the digital output signals are processed by a processor embedded within the controller, the processor may issue a control command to the electric machine. The processor may have memory containing software to make the processor execute the computation of the control command of the electric machine in accordance with a torque command.