A motor controller which controls a switched reluctance motor (hereinafter referred to as a motor) includes an inverter, a torque computation part, a magnetic flux computation part, and a switching control unit. The switching control unit controls the inverter by using at least a reference torque, which is a torque command value, and a calculated torque. The switching control unit includes a minimum magnetic flux maintenance part. The minimum magnetic flux maintenance part controls the inverter such that a calculated phase magnetic flux of each phase becomes equal to or larger than a predetermined minimum value in a state where the rotational speed of the motor is above a predetermined speed.

A fault-tolerant control method for a position sensor of a switched reluctance motor, if the position sensor of the switched reluctance motor runs without a fault, detecting, in real time, four equal-interval or equal-angle continuous edge pulses of an output signal of the position sensor, the fourth edge pulse being the current edge pulse, and detecting time intervals (T1, T2, T3) between each two adjacent edge pulses sequentially, thereby calculating a time interval (T4) between the current edge pulse and a next edge pulse following the current edge pulse. If the position sensor of the switched reluctance motor fails, and the next edge pulse following the current edge pulse is lost, reconstructing the next edge pulse after the interval time (T4) of the current edge pulse of the output signal of the position sensor. The method can be used, when one or more position sensors of a rotatory and linear switched reluctance motor having various phases and various topology structures fail, to reconstruct an edge pulse after lost.

A motor control apparatus which is applied to an actuator provided with a motor and an encoder, and drives the motor is provided. The motor control apparatus comprises: a controller that learns an initial position of a rotor, and also decides an energized phase; and a drive circuit that performs switching operation to energize an energized phase. The controller learns that, in learning the initial position, the initial position of the rotor is a two-phase facing position in which two adjacent salient poles of the rotor face salient poles of two energized phases of a stator, and the initial position of the rotor is a one-phase facing position in which one salient pole of the rotor faces a salient pole of one non-energized phase of the stator.

A braking torque closed-loop control system and method for a switch reluctance motor. The closed-loop control system comprises a torque regulator, a mode selector, a current regulator, an angle optimization controller and a torque estimator. On the basis of the rotating speed of the motor, the mode selector implements a phase current soft chopper control in a low rotating speed region and an angle position control in a high rotating speed region. The current regulator performs soft chopper hysteretic current regulation. The angle optimization controller optimizes a turn-on angle and a turn-off angle of a power converter master switch to reduce torque pulsation and improve braking energy feedback efficiency. The torque estimator conducts an on-line estimation of an actual braking torque estimated value of the motor based on an actual phase voltage and current of the motor to achieve braking torque signal feedback.

Electric motors may include one or more sensors usable to determine rotor alignment and/or speed. A method and apparatus for rotor alignment and/or speed error detection and/or correction are proposed, such as using signals from one or more sensors. A method and apparatus for controlling stator tooth activation based, at least in part, on corrections and offsets is also disclosed.

A direct current electrical machine, which includes a rotor that generates a rotor magnetic field, a first commutation cell that includes a winding component, a first switching device, and a second switching device. The first winding component includes a first portion electrically coupled between a first terminal and a second terminal of the first winding component and a second portion electrically coupled between a third terminal and the second terminal of the first winding component. The first switching device is electrically coupled to the first terminal and is closed when a first voltage induced across the first portion by rotation of the rotor magnetic field is positive; and the second switching device is electrically coupled to the third terminal and is closed when a second voltage induced across the second portion by the rotation of the rotor magnetic field is negative.

A switch reluctance motor wide speed-regulation range cross-control method, the switch reluctance motor wide speed-regulation range control system consisting of a revolving speed regulator, a current chopper controller, an angle position controller, a chopper counter, a comparison selector and two resettable constant registers; the chopper counter counts the current chopping number of each electrical period, and according to the comparison result between a counting value of the chopper counter and a constant value set by the two constant registers, the comparison selector selects the current chopper controller or the angle positon controller, such that when in the three phases of low revolving speed, medium revolving speed and high revolving speed or in the runtime of acceleration, deceleration and uniform velocity, the current chopper controller and the angle positon controller can automatically switch, and seamlessly connect without being affected by load change, and switching from a turn-on angle to a turn-off angle will not cause fluctuation of torque or revolving speed of a switch reluctance motor, thus the switch reluctance motor system runs stably and has good value for engineering application.

A controller of an oil pressure control system for an automatic transmission, the system including: a manual valve having a sleeve and a spool and changing an oil passage to the automatic transmission; a detent lever having engagement grooves and positioning the spool; an engagement member including an engagement unit for the grooves and a bias unit biasing the engagement unit; and a motor rotating the detent lever, comprises: a shift range detecting unit; a range switch determining unit determining whether the shift range is switched; a temperature detecting unit; a temperature determining unit determining whether environmental temperature is lower than a predetermined temperature; and a power controlling unit supplying, to the motor, power for setting a maximum value of a rotary torque of rotating the detent lever to be a predetermined value when the shift range is switched and the environmental temperature is lower than the predetermined temperature.

A vehicular control apparatus that includes a switched reluctance motor and an electronic control unit is provided. The switched reluctance motor has a rotor and a stator and is mounted as a travel drive source in a vehicle. The electronic control unit executes current control of the switched reluctance motor. The electronic control unit executes first current control for causing the rotor to rotate in a reverse direction from a rotational direction in which the vehicle is started in the case where the vehicle is not started even when the switched reluctance motor outputs maximum torque within an allowable range, and executes control for causing the rotor to rotate in the rotational direction in which the vehicle is started after the rotor rotates in the reverse direction by the first current control to a rotation position at which torque for enabling a start of the vehicle can be output.

A microcomputer rotationally drives a motor by executing an encoder-synchronized control to sequentially switch over a current supply phase of the motor in synchronization with an output signal of the encoder. The microcomputer checks whether the motor stagnates to rotate after a start of the encoder-synchronized control. The microcomputer rotationally drives the motor by switching over from the encoder-synchronized control to a time-synchronized control to sequentially switch over the current supply phase of the motor in synchronization with a predetermined time, when the motor is determined as failing to rotate. The microcomputer thus rotationally drives the motor quickly by the time-synchronized control even when the motor fails to rotate because of delay in a switchover time of the current supply phase after the switchover of the encoder-synchronized control.