Control apparatus for driving motor
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorToshihiro Yasuda
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Abstract
A control apparatus comprises a time predictor configured to count a clock signal as a second count value when a timer unit has an abnormality, to stop counting the clock signal when any sub-process is performed by a sub-processor, and to predict time using the second count value; and a processing time storage unit configured to correlate each sub-process to a specified processing time of the sub-process and to store the correlation as a processing time list. When the timer unit has an abnormality, a main controller periodically performs a main process by using the time predicted by the time predictor. The time predictor predicts the time using a time corresponding to the second count value and a specified processing time of a sub-process performed by the sub-processor in the processing time list.
Claims5
A control apparatus for a driving motor, comprising:
- a clock unit configured to generate a clock signal;
- a timer unit configured to count the clock signal as a first count value and measure time using the first count value;
- a main controller configured to periodically perform a main process using the time measured by the timer unit and to control the driving motor;
- a sub-processor configured to perform each sub-process;
- a time predictor configured to count the clock signal as a second count value when the control apparatus detect a first event relating to the timer unit, to stop counting the clock signal when any sub-process is performed by the sub-processor, and to predict time using the second count value;
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- a processing time storage unit configured to correlate each sub-process to a specified processing time of the sub-process and to store the correlation as a processing time list, wherein
- when the control apparatus detects the first event, the main controller periodically performs the main process by using the time predicted by the time predictor, and
- the time predictor predicts the time using a time corresponding to the second count value and a specified processing time of a sub-process performed by the sub-processor in the processing time list.
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