For an easily implementable method for position determination using an inductive position sensor with increased precision of the position information, the position sensor generates a measurement signal from which a frequency functional dependent on the excitation frequency is formed, which represents a measure of the noise signal and the excitation frequency of the excitation signal is changed so that the frequency functional is minimized or maximized and the excitation frequency that minimizes or maximizes the frequency functional is used for the excitation signal.

An R/D conversion method includes a step of removing a frequency band including a frequency component that is twice an excitation frequency of excitation signals of a resolver (30) from a digital angle value (φ). The R/D conversion method further includes a step of outputting, by the resolver (30), the resolver signals having a phase difference that corresponds to an angle of the resolver with respect to the excitation signals, respectively, and a step of feeding back the digital angle value (φ) includes feeding back the digital angle value (φ) to the resolver signals.

A vehicle includes a multi-core processor having first, second, and cores and having first and second analog-to-digital converters (ADC) associated with the first and second cores, respectively. The first and second ADC are configured to convert analog phase currents to first and second digital phase current values, respectively. The multi-core processor is configured to generate first and second rotor-angle data from digital signals representing a position of the electric machine. The processor is programmed to, via the first core, estimate a first output torque of the electric machine based on the first rotor-angle data and the first digital phase current values, via the second core, estimate a second output torque based on the second rotor-angle data and the second digital phase current values, and, via the third core, command de-activation of the electric machine in response to a difference between the first and second output torques exceeding a threshold.

An n-th-harmonic error estimation unit that estimates the error component of an n-th harmonic included in a resolver angle 8 and a subtraction unit that subtracts an n-th-harmonic estimated angle error from θ to output the corrected angle θ′ are included. The n-th-harmonic error estimation unit includes an n-th-harmonic error phase detection unit that obtains a phase difference u such that the integral, for a 1/n period of an electrical angle of the rotor, of the output obtained by synchronously detecting 0 by using a rectangular wave obtained by comparison from a COS wave expressed as cos(nθ+u) becomes zero and generates a SIN wave expressed as sin(nθ+u); a synchronous detector that synchronously detects θ′ by using a rectangular wave obtained by comparison from the SIN wave; an integrator that integrates the detected output for a 1/n period of the electrical angle; an actual angle integral calculation unit; an amplitude setter that sets an error amplitude from the value obtained by subtracting the integral of the actual angle integral calculation unit from the integral of the integrator; and a multiplier that generates the n-th-harmonic estimated angle error by multiplying the SIN wave by the error amplitude.

The present invention provides a signal processor that improves a resolution of a phase detection without increasing a clock frequency of a controller or decreasing a frequency of an excitation signal. A signal processor 10 includes a comparator 11 that compares a signal obtained by phase modulating a carrier frequency at a rotor rotation angle of a resolver with a dither signal.

The present invention relates to providing an electrical voltage for exciting an excitation coil of a resolver (2). In this case, the electrical voltage for exciting the excitation coil of the resolver (2) can be generated by means of pulse-width-modulated driving of at least one half-bridge (H1). In this case, the switching elements of the half-bridge (H1) are fully turned on, with the result that losses such as occur during linear operation of semiconductor switches, for example, can be avoided. If appropriate, the voltage (U_e) provided by the half-bridge (H1) can be additionally increased by means of suitable resonant circuits (L1, C1, C3 . . . ).

A resolver system includes a rotatable primary winding, a secondary winding fixed relative to the rotatable primary winding, a tertiary winding fixed relative to the rotatable primary winding and positioned π/2 radians out of phase with respect to the fixed secondary winding, an excitation module electrically connected to the rotatable primary winding and configured to provide an excitation signal to the rotatable primary winding where the excitation signal is an alternating current waveform having a fundamental frequency, and a controller electrically connected to the secondary winding and configured to sample a voltage across the secondary winding at 18 times the fundamental frequency, sample a voltage across the tertiary winding at 18 times the fundamental frequency, and determine an amplitude of the fundamental frequency based on the sampled voltages across the secondary and tertiary windings, where the alternating current waveform includes a third harmonic frequency.

A motor control system can include a resolver configured to output resolver signals and a plurality of motor drives, each motor drive configured to drive a segment of a segmented motor. A resolver signal splitter can be connected between the resolver and the plurality of motor drives to split the resolver signals from the resolver to provide each motor drive with the resolver signals.

A resolver signal processing apparatus processes a resolver signal output from a resolver by applying an excitation signal generated by an excitation signal generating unit. In particular, the resolver signal processing apparatus includes: a resolver signal processing unit, in which the resolver signal processing unit includes a resolver signal acquiring unit receiving the resolver signal and extracting pole information of the resolver signal, a resolver phase compensating unit compensating a pole acquisition time of extracting the pole information of the resolver signal acquiring unit, and a resolver-digital converter outputting a digital signal by using the pole information extracted from the resolver signal acquiring unit, and a resolver signal processing method using the same.

This application relates to a motor controller applied to an electric vehicle, a microprocessor in the motor controller, and a sampling trigger method applied to the microprocessor. The sampling trigger method includes: a signal generation module generates an exciting fundamental wave signal to drive the resolver to work; a signal processing module determines an exciting symbol based on the exciting fundamental wave signal, where the exciting symbol includes alternate high-level signals and low-level signals, and the signal processing module further determines a zero crossing point signal of the exciting fundamental wave signal based on the exciting symbol; and a phase shift processing module performs phase shift processing on the zero crossing point signal to obtain a sampling trigger signal, to trigger the microprocessor to sample the resolver feedback signal. In this solution, fewer peripheral circuits of a chip are used, thereby improving a product integration degree.