Deere & Company

University of Nebraska

Long Wu

Robert B Shaw

Tianjun Fu

Kent D Wanner

Chris J Tremel

Sumit Dutta

Anthony Weber

Lav Thyagarajan

Danielle Li

Dan Li

Yue Zhao

Wei Qiao

David Michael Loken

Alan K Gilman

David Holmburg

Eric Vilar

Zimin W Vilar

Jared Lervik

Yuheng Wu

Scott C Johnson

Shuvam Gupta

Richard E Wainwright

Lauren M White

Eric R Linn

Guozhen Zhou

Srujan Kusumba

Zack M Day

Jason Dickherber

Christopher L Marohl

Guangqi Zhu

Brij N Singh

Sean Patrick West

Neal D Clements

Christopher John Tremel

Jacob Pence

Roger K Amundson

Dustin E Oelmann

Brian J Booth

Tyler J Duffy

Rachit Agarwal

Yiqi Liu

Whitney M Marohl

Jacob R DeCock

Whitney M Aalund

In an example embodiment, a system includes an inverter configured to operate in at least one of a charging mode or a drive mode, a cascaded direct current (DC)-DC converter, the DC-DC converter including a first portion of the inverter and at least one controller configured to selectively couple the first portion of the inverter to a first portion of the cascaded DC-DC converter during the charging mode, and selectively couple the inverter to a second portion of the cascaded DC-DC converter during the drive mode.

Dual-purpose drive and charger systems and methods thereof

An electronic controller is configured to adjust the duty cycle, between a respective pairs of semiconductor switches of the primary converter of a direct-current-to-direct-current converter based on reducing or minimizing one or more of the first estimated line-to-line DC offset voltage, the second estimated line-to-line DC offset voltage, and the third estimated line-to-line DC offset voltage. Further, the electronic controller is configured determines duty cycle adjustments based on oversampling (e.g., enhanced data processing with interpolation) of smoothed or integrated representation of the first estimated line-to-line DC offset voltage, the second estimated line-to-line DC offset voltage, and the third estimated line-to-line DC offset voltage.

Direct-current-to-direct-current converter with transformer thermal management

A voltage command estimator is configured to estimate a minimum required variable DC bus voltage based on the first direct-axis current/voltage command, the first quadrature-axis current/voltage command, the second direct-axis current/voltage command, and the second quadrature-axis current/voltage command for a respective time interval. The voltage command estimator is configured to provide the estimated minimum required variable DC bus voltage to a voltage regulator to adjust the observed voltage level of the variable DC voltage bus to the estimated minimum required variable DC bus voltage to maintain the operation, as commanded by the voltage/current commands, of the first electric machine under the first variable load and the second electric machine under the second variable load at the time interval.

System and method for variable DC bus voltage coupled to inverters

In an example embodiment, a system includes a plurality of inverters configured to operate in at least one of a charging mode or a drive mode, a plurality of motors and at least one controller configured to selectively couple the plurality of inverters to the plurality of motors during a drive mode, and selectively couple at least one of the inverters to an alternating current (AC) source during the charging mode and decouple the at least one of the inverters from the plurality of motors during the charging mode.

A hydraulic pump supplies hydraulic energy to a hydraulic system load. A vehicle controller establishes a commanded rotor speed for the motor or electric machine based on a target pump rotational speed of a pump rotor or pump shaft for operation of the hydraulic pump at a set point or within an operational region consistent with the hydraulic system load or estimated work task of the vehicle for one or more sampling intervals, where the set point or operational region is defined by a hydraulic pump flow rate versus head characterization curve and where the target pump rotational speed can be independent of a rotational speed of the engine shaft (e.g., in a first mode).

Energy management system for a hybrid vehicle with an electrically powered hydraulic system

A control module comprises software instructions for execution by an electronic data processor. An inductance estimator is configured to estimate direct inductance and quadrature inductance associated with the electric machine based on a first set of equations that assume constant rotor resistance and constant magnetic flux. A torque estimator is configured to estimate an observed torque associated with a rotor of the electric machine based a commanded direct-axis voltage and a commanded quadrature-axis voltage, where the observed torque is proportional to the observed power consumption of the electric machine. A pulse-width-modulation (PWM) module is configured to provide pulse-width modulated signals to the electric machine based on the commanded direct-axis voltage and a commanded quadrature-axis voltage. A back-electromotive force adjustment is derived from an estimated, observed torque and a commanded torque.

Inverter for controlling an electric machine without prior characterization

A system and method for controlling an electric machine via an inverter comprises an speed estimator that is configured to estimate a rotor speed of an electric motor to determine whether to control the inverter to operate the electric motor in a first mode or a second mode. For example, the first mode comprises a current-frequency control mode and the second mode comprises a back electromagnetic force (BEMF) mode. An electronic data processor or controller is configured to determine a first (current) command associated with a first mode of operating the electric motor, if the estimated rotor speed is a less than a speed threshold. The electronic data processor or controller is configured to determine a second (current) command associated with a second mode of operating the electric motor if the estimated rotor speed is equal to or greater than the speed threshold.

System and method of a robust startup and stop scheme for position sensorless control of an electric machine

An electronic data processor comprises a data storage device in communication with the electronic data processor. A control module stored in the data storage device, the control module comprising software instructions for execution by the electronic data processor to change dynamically the fundamental switching frequency of the control signals to reduce electromagnetic noise within a target frequency band if the fundamental switching frequency is equal to or greater than a threshold fundamental switching frequency.

Spread-spectrum control for an inverter for controlling an electric machine

An energy management control module is configured for communication with the vehicle controller. The energy management control module is configured to generate generator command data for the generator in a power command mode. In one embodiment, the energy management control module supports a first mode and a second mode. A first mode comprises the power command mode and a stored power extraction mode that are mutually exclusive modes for any sampling interval. In the power command mode of the first mode, the energy management controller is configured to generate generator command data for the generator based on a commanded motor torque and an energy storage power command (e.g., SOC command data) if the primary rotational energy of the internal combustion engine meets or exceeds the total vehicle load for a sampling interval.

Energy management system for a hybrid electric ground vehicle

A first inverter has a set of first output phases coupled to a grid voltage source. A second inverter has a set of second output phases coupled to the grid voltage source. A phase measurement device is adapted to measure at least one reference phase of the grid voltage source at a reference phase point. An electronic data processor is configured to: determine an observed phase difference between the reference phase point and an observed position sample of a pulse-width-modulation carrier signal of the first inverter, the second inverter, or each parallel-coupled inverter; determine a target phase difference between the reference phase point and target position sample of the pulse-width-modulation carrier signal; determine a frequency adjustment to the pulse-width-modulation carrier signal of the first inverter, the second inverter, or all parallel-coupled inverters, based on a difference between the observed phase difference and the target phase difference.

System and method for frequency adjustment of parallel inverters coupled to a grid power source

Each one of the secondary converters has a corresponding transformer having a primary winding associated with a primary alternating current (AC) signal and a secondary winding associated with a secondary alternating current (AC) signal. A secondary controller provides secondary control signals to the secondary semiconductor switches of the secondary converters with one or more time-synchronized, target phase offsets with respect to an observed phase of the alternating current signal (e.g., primary alternating current signal or the secondary alternating current signal) to provide the target phase offset (or targeted phase offsets) commensurate with or sufficient to support a required electrical energy transfer from the primary controller to the corresponding secondary controller (or secondary controllers).

System for controlling a direct-current-to-direct-current converter to provide electrical energy to a vehicle implement

An improved power system architecture for a hybrid electric vehicle includes a power control unit including a motor inverter, a generator inverter, and a DC-to-DC converter, and vehicle power management (VPM) circuitry directly connected to each of the motor inverter, generator inverter, and DC-to-DC converter. In this arrangement, communication timing is greatly reduced, thereby allowing for feedforward control of the motor inverter, generator inverter, and DC-to-DC converter. The feedforward control enables the VPM circuitry to predict current influx or draw by a motor and determine the corresponding currents to provide to or from the generator and battery prior to or simultaneously with the actual current influx or draw by the motor. This improves vehicle dynamics and responsiveness, as well as enables complete recapture of braking currents and eliminates the need for a brake chopper resistor, thereby improving overall vehicle efficiency.

Power system architecture for hybrid electric vehicle

In accordance with one embodiment, a system and method of controlling a direct current to direct current converter that comprises a primary full bridge coupled to a secondary full bridge via a transformer. After the start-up time period, an electronic data processor controls the converter to operate efficiently in a first control mode, a second control mode, or a third control mode, wherein the first control mode comprises a phase shift mode, the second control mode comprises a triangular waveform control mode and wherein the third control mode comprises a trapezoidal waveform control mode. The electronic data processor determines a maximum target power range and a transition power level threshold for each one of the control modes.

Method and system for controlling switching of a direct current to direct current converter

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