A motor driving control device has a motor driving unit that has a plurality of switching elements and supplies a drive current to three-phase coils of a motor, a control circuit unit for sequentially switching energization patterns of the three-phase coils by outputting a drive control signal for operating the plurality of switching elements to the motor driving unit, and a current detection circuit for detecting a voltage value corresponding to a magnitude of the drive current. the control circuit unit includes a voltage comparison unit for comparing the magnitude of the drive current with a predetermined current threshold value based on the voltage value each time switching of the energization patterns is performed, and a disconnection determination unit for determining whether any one phase of the motor is in a disconnection state, based on a comparison result of the voltage comparison unit for the plurality of energization patterns.

According to one embodiment, a vehicle controller includes an electric power converter, a plurality of first electric power transmission members, a temperature sensor, and a first controller. The electric power converter converts input electric power and outputs the converted electric power. The plurality of first electric power transmission members transmit the input electric power and are connected in parallel to the electric power converter. The temperature sensor is connected to at least one of the plurality of first electric power transmission members. The first controller determines that at least one of the plurality of first electric power transmission members is disconnected when a temperature detected by the temperature sensor changes.

In a method and to a corresponding device for detecting phase failures in a converter, current regulators of a positive phase sequence system and current regulators of a negative phase sequence system are provided for the current control of the converter, wherein the current regulators of the positive phase sequence system and the current regulators of the negative phase sequence system each have an integrator, resulting, in the case of a network fault, in coupling of the integrators. At least one measured or calculated value is checked by a monitoring unit for a course that is typical of the coupling of the integrators, wherein the monitoring unit generates a fault signal if such a typical course is detected.

A control system for an electric motor comprises a current controller which produces a set of voltage demands for the motor, a current sensing means arranged to produce a current sensing output indicative of electric current in the motor, and a current signal processing means arranged to process the current sensing output signal to produce a modified current signal in which at least one harmonic component present in the current sensing output signal due to inaccuracies in the current measurement is removed or substantially reduced. The modified current signal is combined with a demanded motor current to provide the input to the current controller.

The control device for a rotary electrical machine which is connected between a DC power source and a rotary electrical machine and which controls driving of the rotary electrical machine by converting DC power from the DC power source into AC power, includes a power conversion circuit which is configured from a plurality of switching elements, a phase current detection unit which detects phase currents in the rotary electrical machine, a phase current ratio derivation unit which derives a ratio in which the phase currents detected by the phase current detection unit are equal to or greater than a reference value, or equal to or lower than the reference value, and an element fault determination unit which determines a fault status of each of the switching elements when the ratio derived by the phase current ratio derivation unit is equal to or greater than a previously established ratio threshold value.

The invention proposes a fault-tolerant field-oriented control method of five-phase interior permanent-magnet fault-tolerant linear motor (IPM-FTLM) with two nonadjacent short-circuit phase faults. Firstly, the extended Clark transformation matrix can be obtained according to the principle that magnetic motive force (MMF) keeps constant before and after the two-phase open-circuit faults, the constraint that the sum of healthy phase currents is zero and the adjacent two-phase current amplitude is equal. The back electric motive force (EMF) can be estimated by the transposed matrix. The nonlinear strong coupling system becomes the first-order inertia system when using the internal mode controller, the first-order inertia feed-forward voltage compensator and back-EMF observer, as the motor is with fault. Then, according to the principle that the sum of MMF of the healthy phase short-circuit compensation currents and two phases short-circuit fault currents is zero, the short-circuit compensation voltage can be obtained, and then these voltages add vector-controller output voltages, respectively. The invention not only restrains the thrust force fluctuation caused by two nonadjacent short-circuit phase faults, but also more importantly keeps the same dynamic and steady performance as the normal conditions, and also it has the constant switching frequency of voltage source inverter.

A current sensor state determination device determines that an abnormality is caused in a current sensor when a sum of phase currents based on current detection values from each of the current sensors in three phases is greater than a first determination value, and determines that no abnormality is caused in the current sensor when the sum of phase currents is equal to or less than the first determination value. The state determination device determines that the current sensor is normal when it is determined that (i) no abnormality is caused in a preset electric angle range equal to or less than one electric-angle cycle of the rotating electric machine and (ii) a value of an electric current flowing in the rotating electric machine in a rotating coordinates system calculated based on the current detection value is equal to or greater than a second determination value.

An electric machine includes a phase lead and a winding set with first and second windings. The first and second windings are connected to the phase lead and are connected electrically in parallel with one another. A current sensor is coupled to the first winding and is arranged to measure a portion of current flowing through the phase lead which flows through the first winding.

A motor control device includes: a motor driver configured to supply electric power to a motor having windings of a plurality of phases, the motor driver including, for each phase of the plurality of phases, an upper drive element and a lower drive element which are connected in series; a motor terminal voltage detector configured to detect a motor terminal voltage value based on a voltage of a motor terminal for each phase of the motor; a drive element fault determinator configured to perform fault determination for the upper drive elements and the lower drive elements, based on a voltage value across each drive element, and output a result of the fault determination; and a short/open-circuit fault determinator configured to, when the result of the fault determination output by the drive element fault determinator indicates that there is a fault, determine whether the fault is a short-circuit fault or an open-circuit fault, for the upper drive elements and the lower drive elements, based on the motor terminal voltage value detected by the motor terminal voltage detector.

A motor control circuit for an electric motor of an electric power assisted steering system comprises a switching circuit comprising a plurality of electrical switches, a current demand signal generator which converts the torque demand signal into a current demands signal; and a fault mode motor current controller that is responsive to an error signal that represents the difference between the current demand signal and the actual current flowing in the motor and is operable in the event of a fault where one phase is open-circuit to drive the remaining two phases as a single combined phase by generating a single voltage demand signal that is representative of the voltage to be applied across the combined phases, the voltage signal being in turn fed into a drive circuit for the switches that generates pulse width modulated switching signals for the switching circuit required to apply the voltage across the combined phases.