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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2013
Trw Limited, Solihull West Midlands, GB;
Christopher David Dixon, West Midlands, GB;
Robert James Huxford, West Midlands, GB;
TRW Limited, Solihull, West Midlands, GB;
Abstract
A method of estimating the position of a rotor of an electric motor comprises producing an output signal indicative of motor position using a position sensor which comprises a detector and at least one encoder which rotates along with the rotor of the motor and includes a plurality of encoding regions, the output signal of the sensor varying in a stepwise fashion as the encoding regions move past the detector, and passing the output of the sensor through a smoothing algorithm to produce an estimated position signal, the algorithm being arranged to smooth the transition between the steps in the output of the sensor by causing the estimated position signal to lag behind the output of the sensor following a step change in the output of the sensor.