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US 4,361,791 AGranted
Apparatus for controlling a PWM inverter-permanent magnet synchronous motor drive
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorAllan B. Plunkett
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Abstract
Apparatus for controlling a permanent magnet AC synchronous motor supplied by a forced commutated inverter that does not use a mechanical shaft position sensor. A control loop regulates an inverter frequency and maintains inverter synchronism with the motor using electrical angle feedback signals developed from measured flux signals that have been phase shifted.
Claims6
A control system for regulating a frequency command to an alternating power source supplying a permanent magnet motor comprising:
- means for measuring the motor flux phasor;
- means for rotating said motor flux phasor through a predetermined electrical angle;
- means for generating an angle feedback signal dependent on the angle difference between the rotated flux phasor and the stator current phasor, said angle feedback signal varying monotonically during motor operation in the lagging and leading power factor mode;
- means for generating an angle command dependent on the difference between an operator commanded torque and actual machine torque;
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- means for comparing said commanded angle signal to said angle feedback signal for generating a frequency command for said alternating power source.
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A permanent magnet synchronous motor drive system comprising:
- a current controlled pulse width modulated inverter;
- a plurality of current regulators one for each motor phase;
- a multiphase waveform generator requiring a frequency command and a current magnitude command and supplying a reference waveform to each of said current regulators;
- said current regulators comparing actual motor phase current to a corresponding reference waveform and controlling the switching of a corresponding inverter phase so that the actual current profile of the current supplied to the motor remains confined within a predetermined deadband;
- control loop means for regulating said inverter frequency having means for measuring the motor flux phasor, means for rotating said motor flux phasor through a predetermined electrical angle, means for generating an angle feedback signal dependent on the angle difference between the rotated flux phasor and the stator current phasor, said angle feedback signal varying monotonically during motor operation in the lagging and leading power factor mode, means for generating an angle command dependent on the difference between operator commanded torque, means for comparing said commanded angle signal to said angle feedback signal for generating a frequency command for said waveform generator and means for generating a current magnitude command in response to said torque command to said waveform generator.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.