Texas Instruments Corporation

Ling Qin

Terry Lee Mayhugh, Jr

Swaminathan Kumar Ramanathan

Bilal Akin

An apparatus includes a sensorless field-oriented control (FOC) motor controller. The motor controller includes a pulse width modulation (PWM) controller configured to generate PWM signals and to provide the PWM signals to an inverter. The motor controller also includes an angle sampler configured to receive a commanded voltage angle signal and to provide the commanded voltage angle signal as an output signal in response to a triggering event. The triggering event is based on a voltage or a current associated with an input or an output of the inverter. The motor controller further includes a first combiner configured to combine (i) a feed-forward voltage angle signal and (ii) a second signal based on the output signal. The first combiner is configured to generate the commanded voltage angle signal. In addition, the motor controller includes a second combiner configured to combine a feed-forward voltage amplitude signal and the second signal.

Sensorless field-oriented control (FOC) without current sampling for motors

A method for driving a motor having a plurality of phases is provided. Initially, first, second, and third intervals for a pulse width modulation (PWM) period from first and second voltage commands are generated. The first and second voltage commands correspond to a voltage vector for the motor, and the voltage vector has an associated sector. A conversion formula is then determined for the first, second, third intervals based on the associated sector for the voltage vector. Using the conversion formula and the first, second, and third intervals, fourth, fifth, and sixth intervals are generated, and a set of PWM signals for the PWM period is generated from the fourth, fifth, and sixth intervals. The motor is then driven with the second set of PWM signals, and a current traversing the plurality of phases with a single shunt is measured.

Method and apparatus for space vector pulse width modulation of a three-phase current construction with single DC-link shunt

A method for driving a motor is provided. Pulse width modulation (PWM) signals are generated from a voltage signal and a commanded angle signal, which drives a motor with multiple phases. A motor current from a motor is measured with a single shunt and converted into a digital signal. Based on the digital signal and the commanded angle signal, direct-axis and quadrant-axis currents for the motor can be determined, and the voltage signal and the commanded angle signal can be adjusted based at least in part on the direct-axis and quadrant-axis currents.

Field oriented control of a motor with a single shunt

An method for driving a motor is provided. A plurality of pulse width modulation (PWM) signals are generated from a commanded voltage signal and a commanded angle signal, and these PWM signal are used to drive a motor (which has a plurality of phases). Currents through the phases of the motor are measured, and a Park transformation is performed on the measured currents to determine a projection current measurement. Based at least in part on the projection current measurement, the adjusting the commanded voltage signal and the commanded angle signal can be adjusted.

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