An electric motor control system of a vehicle includes a temperature module configured to, based on a motor torque request, (i) determine a plurality of stator current values based on a plurality of temperatures and (ii) generate a maximum stator current based on a lowest value of the plurality of stator current values. A torque module configured to, based on the maximum stator current, the motor torque request, and a maximum allowable flux, generate a maximum torque output. A current command module configured to, based on a speed of a rotor of the electric motor and the maximum torque output, generate a d-axis current adjustment and a q-axis current adjustment. A switching control module configured to, based on the d- and q-axis current adjustments, control switching of an inverter module and apply power to stator windings of the electric motor from an energy storage device.

An electric motor control system of a vehicle includes a temperature module configured to, based on a motor torque request, (i) determine a plurality of stator current values based on a plurality of temperatures and (ii) generate a maximum stator current based on a lowest value of the plurality of stator current values. A torque module configured to, based on the maximum stator current, the motor torque request, and a maximum allowable flux, generate a maximum torque output. A current command module configured to, based on a speed of a rotor of the electric motor and the maximum torque output, generate a d-axis current adjustment and a q-axis current adjustment. A switching control module configured to, based on the B- and q-axis current adjustments, control switching of an inverter module and apply power to stator windings of the electric motor from an energy storage device.

A DC motor including a continuous rotation rotor; a first inductor characterized by first parameters; a second inductor characterized by second parameters; a voltage supply unit; a measurement unit for detecting time instants when a first induced voltage in the first inductor equals a second induced voltage in the second inductor; and a control unit for controlling the application of drive voltage pulses to the inductors. The rotor faces first the second inductor before facing the first inductor when being rotated. At least one of the second parameters is selected different from a corresponding parameter of the first parameters such that a maximum induced voltage in the first inductor is greater than a maximum induced voltage in the second inductor. The control unit is arranged to trigger each of the drive voltage pulses after a detection of an equal induced voltage in the first and second inductors.

It is an aspect of the present disclosure to provide a motor driving apparatus, and a method of controlling the same. In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, the motor driving apparatus includes an inverter configured to supply driving power to a motor; a sensing unit configured to sense a DC voltage supplied to the inverter and a driving current supplied from the inverter to the motor; and a controller configured to compensate for an iron loss and a copper loss by calculating a loss of the motor based on the sensed DC voltage and driving current and controlling the inverter to adjust the driving current based on the calculated loss of the motor.

A rotor temperature monitoring method and system for a permanent magnet synchronous motor are provided. According to the method and system, an a-phase line current and a b-phase line current of a stator of a permanent magnet synchronous motor are obtained as a first line current and a second line current; further, a line voltage between the a-phase and the b-phase of the stator is obtained and a rotating speed of the rotor of the permanent magnet synchronous motor is obtained; and then, the first line current, the second line current, the line voltage, the rotating speed of the rotor, an inductance parameter of the permanent magnet synchronous motor and a temperature characteristic equation of a permanent magnet of the rotor are substituted into a preset rotor permanent magnet temperature expression to calculate and obtain the temperature of the rotor.

A system may include a motor that has a rotor and a stator. The system may include one or more sensors that measure a voltage signal of a winding of the stator. The system may include a processor that executes computer-executable instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to receive, from the one or more sensors, the voltage signal that includes an induced voltage signal associated with the winding of the stator, to determine a time constant associated with the induced voltage signal based on a decay pattern of the induced voltage signal, to determine a temperature of a rotor based on the time constant, and to adjust one or more operations of the motor based on the temperature.

A controller detects a rotor magnet temperature based on an actively detected back electromotive force (BEMF) voltage of the motor. The controller detects the BEMF voltage by commanding the injection of a direct-axis (d-axis) current into the motor while the motor is spinning but otherwise commanding no torque. The controller actively detects the BEMF voltage in that the controller purposely injects a known quantity of d-axis current at a chosen time during which the controller detects or is aware that the motor is commanding no torque. Using a quadrature-axis (q-axis) voltage equation, which describes the relationship between a voltage command, the current, the BEMF voltage, and reactance in the q-axis, the controller solves for the BEMF voltage with the voltage command, the current, and the q-axis reactance being known to the controller. The controller detects the rotor magnet temperature based on the BEMF voltage.

The invention provides a monitor circuit, which is used for a fan and receives a driving current and a driving voltage of the fan. The monitor circuit includes sensing circuits and a microcontroller. The sensing circuits respectively sense statuses of the fan and output sensing values. The microcontroller is used for monitoring whether the sensing values exceed preset value ranges respectively to obtain comparison results. The microcontroller outputs warning signals according to the comparison results. Each of the warning signals has a specific frequency.

In order to highly accurately estimate a temperature of a permanent magnet to be used for a rotor of a motor, provided is a motor control device for a vehicle including a motor as a drive power source, in which an estimation mode setting section sets, when a predetermined condition for estimating the temperature of the permanent magnet to be used for the rotor of the motor is established under a state in which the motor generates drive power to run the vehicle, a current flowing through the motor to 0, and a permanent magnet temperature estimation section estimates the temperature of the permanent magnet based on an induced voltage of the motor in a period during which the current flowing through the motor is 0.