Control structures for parallel motor drive control architectures
AssigneeHamilton Sundstrand Corporation
InventorsDiarmaid John Hogan, Virgilio Valdivia Guerrero, Andrei Dinu, Rodrigo Fernandez-Mattos
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Abstract
A proportional integrator for control of a motor drive arranged to be connected in parallel with one or more other motor drives to drive a common load. The proportional integrator includes means to receive an input command signal and to compare with a local measured signal from the motor drive and to output a local control signal for that motor drive. Also includes are a global input signal indicative of the behaviour of the one or more other motor drives, the global input signal being incorporated into the proportional integral function with the input command signal and the local measured signal to provide the local control signal.
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A proportional integrator for control of a motor drive arranged to be connected in parallel with one or more other motor drives to drive a common load, the proportional integrator comprising:
- means to receive an input command signal and to compare with a local measured signal from the motor drive and to output a local control signal for that motor drive, wherein the input command signal is a speed reference signal and the local measured signal is a local speed signal;
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- means for adding a correction factor to the proportional integral function, the correction factor selected to balance the integral term dependent on a total of current reference commands from the motor drive and all motor drives connected in parallel with the motor drive, in use;
- wherein the input command signal is a current reference signal and the local measured signal is a measured current signal, and wherein the global input signal is a global voltage reference based on a local voltage reference from the motor drive and all motor drives connected in parallel with the motor drive, in use.
A proportional integrator for control of a motor drive arranged to be connected in parallel with one or more other motor drives to drive a common load, the proportional integrator comprising:
- means to receive an input command signal and to compare with a local measured signal from the motor drive and to output a local control signal for that motor drive;
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- a global input signal indicative of the behaviour of the one or more other motor drives, the global input signal being incorporated into the proportional integral function with the input command signal and the local measured signal to provide the local control signal;
- wherein the input command signal is a current reference signal and the local measured signal is a measured current signal, and wherein the global input signal is a global voltage reference based on a local voltage reference from the motor drive and all motor drives connected in parallel with the motor drive, in use.
A method of controlling a plurality of motor drives connected in parallel to drive a common load, the method comprising:
- performing, at each motor drive, a proportional integral function on an input command signal utilising a local measured signal of the motor drive and a global input signal indicative of the behaviour of the one or more other motor drives,
- wherein the global input signal is incorporated into the proportional integral function with the input command signal and the local measured signal to provide a local control signal for each motor drive;
- wherein the input command signal is a common signal provided to all of the motor drives from a central controller and the global input signal is provided to all motor drives from the central controller and is derived from a local reference from each motor drive.
A proportional integrator for control of a motor drive arranged to be connected in parallel with one or more other motor drives to drive a common load, the proportional integrator comprising:
- means to receive an input command signal and to compare with a local measured signal from the motor drive and to output a local control signal for that motor drive;
- a global input signal indicative of the behaviour of the one or more other motor drives, the global input signal being incorporated into the proportional integral function with the input command signal and the local measured signal to provide the local control signal;
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- tunable gains applying a gain factor to the global input signal depending on local signals from which the global input signal is derived.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.