In an electric power steering device assisted by a brushless motor, an induced voltage from a brushless motor is detected when a main power supply is off. The motor is determined to be in a high rpm state when the induced voltage is in a first transient state from a voltage ≦a high rpm detection threshold Th1 to a voltage≧Th1, thereby setting an intermittent excitation cycle of a revolution angle sensor connected to the motor to a short cycle. The motor is determined to be in a low rpm state when the induced voltage becomes a voltage≧a high rpm detection threshold Th2 after a wait period corresponding to an electrical angle between peaks or valleys of an output voltage has elapsed in a second transient state from a voltage–Th1 to a voltage≧Th2, thereby setting the cycle to a long cycle.

A steer-by-wire rudder system includes a first system having a first motor unit that drives a rudder mechanism and a first control unit that controls the first motor unit, and a second system having a second motor unit that drives the rudder mechanism and a second control unit that controls the second motor unit. The first control unit and the second control unit perform cooperative control for controlling the first motor unit and the second control unit to cooperate with each other. When the cooperative control is not performed, one of the control of the first motor unit by the first control unit and the control of the second motor unit by the second control unit continues, and the other thereof stops.

A power conversion apparatus includes a first inverter connected to one end of each of the respective phase windings of a motor, a second inverter connected to another end of each of the respective phase windings, and a control circuit that controls the operations of the first and second inverters. The control circuit controls, based on a third-order component of the magnetic flux of a permanent magnet of a rotor and a third-order component of a current supplied to an A-phase winding, a sixth-order component of a radial force acting on teeth of a stator.

A steer-by-wire steering system for a motor vehicle may include a rotatably supported steering spindle, a feedback actuator with a feedback motor for acting on the steering spindle, a steering actuator with a steering motor for acting on steered wheels of the motor vehicle based on rotation of the steering spindle, and two control units for controlling the feedback motor and the steering motor. A first control unit of the two control units and a second control unit of the two control units have different levels of complexity relative to each other, in particular such that the first control unit is more powerful than the second control unit. Also, a method can be utilized to operate such a steer-by-wire steering system, whereby the first control unit and the second control unit execute procedures of different complexity relative to each other.

A steering control device for a steering member and a turning wheel, includes: a steering angle control unit for controlling an actual steering angle of the steering member via a steering actuator; a turning angle control unit for controlling an actual turning angle of the turning wheel via a turning actuator; and a target generation unit for generating a target steering angle as a control target and a target turning angle as a control target. Before controlling the actual turning angle toward the target turning angle to follow a planned trajectory for the vehicle, the steering angle control unit controls the actual steering angle toward the target steering angle to follow the planned trajectory.

An electronic control unit for redundancy of a motor driven power steering for a vehicle includes: a first motor control circuit unit having a circuit structure to control an operation of a motor; a second motor control circuit unit having a circuit structure to control the operation of the motor, and disposed in parallel to the first motor control circuit unit along an x-direction; and a redundancy control unit to control the second motor control circuit unit to perform a motor control, when an abnormality occurs in the first motor control circuit unit.

A method includes capturing a first sample data signal, the first sample data signal being associated with a first time domain and storing a first value associated with the first sample data signal in a first element position of a first memory buffer. The method also includes generating, in response to a completion of a sampling window and in response to a request from a data consumer, a snapshot of values stored in the first memory buffer and storing the snapshot of values in a data consumer memory. The method also includes extracting, by the data consumer in a second time domain, at least one value from the snapshot of values and calculating, by the data consumer, at least one of a motor position of a motor and a motor velocity of the motor using the at least one value from the snapshot of values.

A method for piloting a motor of a power steering system of a vehicle, the power steering system having at least one steering wheel and one rack, the motor being piloted by a closed-loop proportional-derivative regulator (R.sub.θ) receiving as input an angular position (θm) of the motor and a setpoint angle (θ.sub.c), the regulator (R.sub.θ) determining a setpoint motor torque (C.sub.c). The method

includes the steps of determining a stiffness compensation, and

modifying the angular position (θ.sub.m) of the motor.

The embodiments relate to a steering motor control device and method. An embodiment may provide a steering motor control device for controlling a steering motor including a first winding and a second winding including a receiver for receiving requested output information on an output of the steering motor, a determiner configured to, if one of the first winding and the second winding is determined to fail, determine output distribution information based on the requested output information and predetermined reference output information, and determine normal winding control information and faulty winding control information based on the output distribution information, and a controller for controlling an operation of the normal winding and an operation of the failed winding.

Disclosed are an apparatus and method for controlling a motor. An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides an apparatus for controlling an operation of a motor, the apparatus including: a first motor control unit connected to a first winding part of the motor and configured to control the operation of the motor; and a second motor control unit connected to a second winding part of the motor and configured to control the operation of the motor, in which the first motor control unit turns on or off current paths formed between the first motor control unit and the motor by controlling switches included in the first motor control unit, and the second motor control unit turns on or off current paths formed between the second motor control unit and the motor by controlling switches included in the second motor control unit.