A virtual voltage injection-based speed sensor-less driving control method for an induction motor is provided. First, a virtual voltage signal is injected into a motor flux linkage and rotating speed observer so that there is a difference between an input of the motor flux linkage and rotating speed observer and a command input of the motor. Then, based on any type of the motor flux linkage and rotating speed observer, a motor flux linkage rotation angle and a motor rotor speed are estimated, and the induction motor is driven to run normally with a certain control strategy (such as vector control). Then, based on a signal designed according to this method and injected only into the motor flux linkage and rotating speed observer, the induction motor driven by a speed sensor-less control system for the induction motor may be ensured to output 150% of a rated torque when running at a motor low synchronous rotating speed and a motor zero synchronous rotating speed, and the stability thereof may be kept for a long time.

A machine learning apparatus for learning a correction parameter used in correction of a command value that controls a motor in a motor drive system including a plurality of kinds of correction functions includes: a state observation unit that observes, as a state variable, each of a feature calculated on the basis of drive data and the kind of any of the correction functions of the motor drive system and the correction parameter; and a learning unit that learns the correction parameter for each of the correction functions according to a training data set created on the basis of the state variable.

A feedback control switching unit of an inverter control unit selects, based on a magnitude relationship between a predetermined switching determination amount and at least one switching threshold, at least one of feedback control units to thereby execute switching among feedback control modes, such as a current feedback control mode and a torque feedback control mode, of the respective feedback control units for driving of the AC motor. A switching command generating unit generates a switching command for an inverter based on a manipulated variable calculated by the selected feedback control unit. When a torque response request determining unit determines that a required torque responsiveness is high, the feedback control switching unit reduces the number of executions of switching among the feedback control modes.

To provide a controller for rotary electric machine apparatus which can calculate the voltage command value of the converter which reduces power loss with good accuracy, in the case where the normal modulation control and the overmodulation control are switched and performed. A controller for rotary electric machine apparatus sets a system voltage that power loss becomes the minimum as the converter voltage command value, based on a power loss characteristics of the normal modulation control which is a power loss characteristics of at least the inverter with respect to the system voltage in performing the normal modulation control, and a power loss characteristics of the overmodulation control which is a power loss characteristics of at least the inverter with respect to the system voltage in performing the overmodulation control.

According to the present invention, in position sensorless control for switching between a 120-degree energization scheme for a low-speed region and a 180-degree energization scheme for a mid-to-high-speed region, stable and highly accurate speed control characteristics are provided by suppressing speed deviation r in the low-speed region, and by preventing current jump-up caused by a discontinuous rotational speed occurring during switching to the mid-to-high-speed region. In the case of driving in the 120-degree energization scheme, a voltage command value is corrected such that an estimated speed value or a detected speed value follows a speed command.

Provided is a motor control device having a function for determining a rotor position of a synchronous motor, without use of a sensor, the device prevents obtaining an erroneous rotor position, to enable stable control of the synchronous motor based on the rotor position in both the normal-control region and the flux-weakening-control region. The motor control device 1 includes: a first rotor position determining unit 19 that determines a rotor position of the synchronous motor 2 based on a current electrical angle, and a first current phase obtained from a current peak value and a difference between an induced voltage electrical angle and a current electrical angle; a second rotor position determining unit 20 that determines the rotor position of the synchronous motor 2 based on the current electrical angle, and a second current phase obtained from a flux linkage and the current peak value; and a selecting unit 21 that selects the first rotor position determining unit 19 or the second rotor position determining unit 20, based on the current peak value, and the first current phase or the second current phase.

Provided is a motor control device having a function for determining a rotor position of a synchronous motor, without use of a sensor, the device prevents obtaining an erroneous rotor position, to enable stable control of the synchronous motor based on the rotor position in both the normal-control region and the flux-weakening-control region. The motor control device 1 includes: a first rotor position determining unit 19 that determines a rotor position of the synchronous motor 2 based on an induced voltage electrical angle, and a first induced voltage phase obtained from a current peak value and a difference between the induced voltage electrical angle and a current electrical angle; a second rotor position determining unit 20 that determines a rotor position of the synchronous motor 2 based on an induced voltage electrical angle, and a second induced voltage phase obtained from a flux linkage and a current peak value; and a selecting unit 21 that selects the first rotor position determining unit 19 or the second rotor position determining unit 20, based on a current peak value, and a first induced voltage phase or a second induced voltage phase.

A machine learning apparatus for learning a correction parameter used in correction of a command value that controls a motor in a motor drive system including a plurality of kinds of correction functions includes: a state observation unit that observes, as a state variable, each of a feature calculated on the basis of drive data and the kind of any of the correction functions of the motor drive system and the correction parameter; and a learning unit that learns the correction parameter for each of the correction functions according to a training data set created on the basis of the state variable.

An electric motor control method is an control method which is capable of selecting a first mode or a second mode as a control mode for controlling an operation of the electric motor according to an operating state of the electric motor. The method, when the second mode is selected as the control mode, stops a part of processing in the first mode, and continuously executes other processing including integral calculation except for the part of processing in the first mode. Also, the method, when the control mode is switched from the second mode to the first mode, starts the part of processing by using at least one control value obtained by continuing the other processing.

A method is provided for determining a parameter of a field-oriented control (FOC) model for an electric power unit, the electric power unit comprising a three-phase electric motor and an inverter drive for driving the electric motor. The method comprises sending a control signal to the inverter drive; applying a predefined electric voltage to at least two of the phases of the electric motor by the inverter drive in response to the control signal; measuring an electric current that flows in the at least two phases of the electric motor in response to the applied electric voltage; and determining the parameter of the control model for the electric power unit using a value of the applied predefined electric voltage and a value of the measured electric current. An apparatus for determining a parameter of a control model for an electric power unit is provided.