The present disclosure pertains to systems and methods configured to monitor and protect an electric motor during startup using a motor model. The motor model parameters may be calculated using measurements taken during a calibration start of the electric motor. The measurements may include slip, stator current, stator voltage, frequency, and/or other electrical or physical parameters. In some embodiments, the motor model parameters may be calculated by minimizing the difference between a measured slip and a calculated slip. The motor model may comprise a variety of parameters used to determine operation parameters of the motor during the startup. In one specific embodiment, the motor model may determine a thermal capacity used (TCU). The TCU may be compared to a threshold value to determine whether protective action is necessary.

A method of calibrating a motor assembly includes selecting an electric motor and a motor controller for the motor assembly, obtaining at least one electric motor parameter of the electric motor, determining a correction factor for the electric motor based upon the at least one electric motor parameter, and programming the motor controller with the correction factor.

A motor drive device includes: a position command generator which generates a position command; a damping filter unit which includes one or more stages of damping filters which reduce vibration of a device including a load and a motor, applies, to a position command, a damping filter determined based on a model parameter corresponding to a model of the device, and outputs a filtered position command to which the damping filter has been applied; a servo controller which gives a torque command to the motor based on the filtered position command; a low-pass filter unit; a parameter estimation unit which estimates the model parameter from the rotational speed and the torque command of the motor which have passed through the low-pass filter unit; and a vibration determination unit which determines presence or absence of vibration in the model.

A system in a vehicle includes a current regulator to obtain current commands from a controller based on a torque input and provide voltage commands and an inverter to use the voltage commands from the current regulator and direct current (DC) supplied by a battery to provide alternating current (AC). The system also includes an electric traction motor to provide drive power to a transmission of the vehicle based on injection of the AC from the inverter. The current regulator adjusts parameters of a transfer function implemented by the current regulator, based on feedback of an input to and an output from the electric traction motor to achieve the AC corresponding with the torque input in no more than two control cycles.

Accurately controlling pressing thrust regardless of an individual difference and a use situation of a brake apparatus, and the like are set forth herein. The present invention controls a motor that applies thrust to a piston that presses a brake pad, in a current variation period before an idling current period, a variation in the current and the voltage or a variation in a function including the current and the voltage in the idling current period is computed as a plurality of prospective values. At a predetermined time T0 during the current variation period, one of the plurality of prospective values is selected on the basis of the current and the voltage, and on the basis of the variation in the current and the voltage or the function related to the selected prospective value, a characteristic parameter of the motor is computed to compute a stop current of the motor.

An estimation device includes a phase current determination unit, a time difference calculation unit, and an estimation unit. The phase current determination unit performs a determination process for determining values of phase currents based on the value of the bus current detected by a bus current detection unit and states of gate pulse signals. The time difference calculation unit calculates a difference between a detection time of the bus current used in a previous determination process and a detection time of the bus current used in a present determination process. The estimation unit estimates at least one of a position and a speed of an AC motor based on the values of the phase currents determined by the phase current determination unit and the difference calculated by the time difference calculation unit.

Systems and methods for sensorless trapezoidal control of brushless DC motors provide effective high-torque startup and low speed operation without the use of Hall effect sensors or encoders during motor operation. The systems and methods also provide the ability to boost signal-to-noise ratio for motor startup and low speed operation via an augmenting supply voltage. Sampling architectures and current-dependent inductance modeling architectures for the control systems are also described.

A speed control method for a permanent magnet synchronous motor considering current saturation and disturbance suppression aims to effectively ensure that a current of the motor is always within a given range to avoid the problem of control performance reduction caused by the fact that the current gets into a saturation state, ensure the safety of a system, do not need to use unavailable state variables such as motor acceleration and the like, effectively estimate and compensate disturbances including parameters uncertainty and unknown load torque disturbance existing in a permanent magnet synchronous motor system, and rapidly and accurately control a speed of the motor finally. There is no need to configure a plurality of sensors in practical industrial application, so system building costs can be reduced on the one hand, and the stability of the system can be improved on the other hand.

A motor control device capable of improving damping effects of a motor. In a motor control device, a control switching determination unit determines whether or not a control region of a motor is in a voltage saturation region. A voltage command value generator generates a voltage command value of the motor based on a velocity command value and a velocity of the motor. When the control switching determination unit determines that the control region of the motor is in the voltage saturation region, the voltage command value generator determines a voltage vector angle of an output voltage applied to the motor from a total torque command value and a limit value of the maximum voltage capable of being output to the motor, and generates a voltage command value based on the voltage vector angle.

A haptic engine includes a haptic actuator having a double-wound driving coil in which the two windings are connected with each other either in series or in parallel. By using the double-wound driving coil in which the two windings are connected with each other in series, an instant back EMF voltage induced in either of the two windings can be determined without having to measure in real time a resistance of the corresponding winding, and without having to sense a driving current through the double-wound driving coil. By using the double-wound driving coil in which the two windings are connected with each other in parallel, an instant back EMF voltage induced in either of the two windings can be determined without having to measure in real time a resistance of the corresponding winding.