A method for magnetizing a soft magnet in a rotor of a variable-flux memory motor (VFMM) includes: generating a first pulse of electric current that has a duration of equal to or more than 0.1 millisecond (ms) and equal to or less than 2 ms; and applying the first pulse to a stator winding of the VFMM to set a magnetization state of the soft magnet to a first magnetization state.

A method for magnetizing a soft magnet in a rotor of a variable-flux memory motor (VFMM) includes: generating a first pulse of electric current that has a duration of equal to or more than 0.1 millisecond (ms) and equal to or less than 2 ms; and applying the first pulse to a stator winding of the VFMM to set a magnetization state of the soft magnet to a first magnetization state.

A motor driver for driving a single coil motor, the motor driver includes: a bridge driver configured for applying a driving signal to the single coil by commuting a motor voltage (Vmot) or a motor current (Imot), supplied to the bridge driver, between terminals (OUT1, OUT2) of the single coil; a controller configured for controlling the commuting of the bridge driver and for setting a preferred value of the motor voltage in function of a preferred operating point; a first voltage regulator configured for regulating the motor voltage or the motor current to the preferred value.

A motor driver for driving a single coil motor, the motor driver includes: a bridge driver configured for applying a driving signal to the single coil by commuting a motor voltage (Vmot) or a motor current (Imot), supplied to the bridge driver, between terminals (OUT1, OUT2) of the single coil; a controller configured for controlling the commuting of the bridge driver and for setting a preferred value of the motor voltage in function of a preferred operating point; a first voltage regulator configured for regulating the motor voltage or the motor current to the preferred value.

Provided is a method of estimating a rotor operational parameter of an electrical machine including multiple winding sets wound to have a phase-shift between winding sets, the rotor operational parameter including rotor position and/or rotor speed, the method including: deriving, for each winding set, a preliminary rotor operational parameter based on a current and a voltage of the respective winding set; calculating for at least two winding sets and for at least one predefined harmonic, a rotor operational parameter harmonic correction term based on the preliminary rotor operational parameter of at least two winding sets; calculating for at least one winding set, a corrected rotor operational parameter based on the preliminary operational parameter of this winding set and the rotor operational parameter harmonic correction term of this winding set, wherein in particular the corrected rotor operational parameter has at least one predefined harmonic removed or at least attenuated.

Electric machine drive systems, and related electric machine embodiments, include technologies for providing redundancy of shaft information of one or more electric machines between converter controllers of the corresponding system. The converter controllers are configured to control operation of power converters, which control one or more electric machines. The disclosed technologies include establishing one or more communication buses between the converter controllers to share the shaft information, which may be based on analog signals from a single, common resolver and/or from different, redundant resolvers depending on the embodiment. For example, in some embodiments, converter controllers communicatively connected to the same resolver may include separate resolver-to-digital converters (RDCs) to provide redundancy of the RDCs.

The invention determines at least one of the angular speed and the angular position of a rotor of an electric machine through determination of the harmonics, using a closed loop comprising a harmonic observer, phase difference correction and a first phase-locked loop that estimates the position of the rotor.

A motor angle detection and diagnosis apparatus is connected to a drive motor using a resolver. The resolver is configured to output a resolver feedback signal of an electrical angle of the drive motor. An angle sampling and diagnosis system in the motor angle detection and diagnosis apparatus performs two-channel simultaneous sampling on a resolver feedback signal, obtained after adjustment by the resolver feedback processing circuit, separately calculates a first electrical angle and a second electrical angle; diagnoses data obtained after the two-channel sampling of the first electrical angle and the second electrical angle in real time, diagnoses hardware circuits, and controls the motor controller to enter a safe state when a diagnosis result is abnormal. In this solution, sampling is performed by using two sampling channels, so that angle decoding of at least an ASIL C can be implemented.

The present application provides a method for speed estimation, device, electronic device, and storage medium, and relates to the technical field of rotational speed estimation. The method for speed estimation is applied to a three-phase brushless motor: firstly, acquire voltages of three terminals of a three-phase brushless motor; secondly, take the voltage difference value of each two terminals as an equivalent line voltage; thirdly, determine a virtual Hall signal according to a zero-crossing point of the equivalent line voltage; and lastly, estimate the rotational speed of the three-phase brushless motor according to the virtual Hall signal. The method for speed estimation, device, electronic device, and storage medium provided in the present application have the advantage of being simpler for rotational speed estimation.

The present application provides a method for speed estimation, device, electronic device, and storage medium, and relates to the technical field of rotational speed estimation. The method for speed estimation is applied to a three-phase brushless motor: firstly, acquire voltages of three terminals of a three-phase brushless motor; secondly, take the voltage difference value of each two terminals as an equivalent line voltage; thirdly, determine a virtual Hall signal according to a zero-crossing point of the equivalent line voltage; and lastly, estimate the rotational speed of the three-phase brushless motor according to the virtual Hall signal. The method for speed estimation, device, electronic device, and storage medium provided in the present application have the advantage of being simpler for rotational speed estimation.