Electric Motor Control Device Inertia Adjustment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Electric-motor control systems face instability when the moment of inertia values differ significantly from their true values, making it difficult to accurately acquire and maintain stable control, especially during changes in load conditions.

Innovation Solution

An electric-motor control device that includes a command value calculation unit, a difference detection unit, a moment-of-inertia value change unit, and a change restriction unit to adjust the moment-of-inertia value and correction coefficients based on detected differences, ensuring stability and tracking performance by restricting unnecessary changes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If the moment-of-inertia value is continuously adjusted to track the estimated value, then the tracking performance is improved, but unnecessary adjustments increase system complexity and potential instability

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetracking performanceVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The change restriction unit is pre-configured with the true value of the moment of inertia and operates continuously to evaluate whether adjustments should be permitted. This preliminary setup allows the system to make intelligent decisions about when to allow tracking adjustments and when to restrict them, avoiding unnecessary complexity in real-time control logic.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses feedback from the difference detection unit to continuously monitor the discrepancy between the given and estimated moment-of-inertia values. This feedback loop enables selective adjustment: allowing tracking when the estimated value is reliably higher, and restricting changes when approaching the true value, thereby balancing tracking performance with stability without excessive complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS9893671B2Electric-motor control device, system and method
Publication Date: 2018.02.13 YASKAWA DENKI KK
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AI summary

Provided is an electric-motor control device, including: a command value calculation unit configured to calculate a command value directed to an electric motor based on a command value and a given moment-of-inertia value; a difference detection unit configured to detect a difference between the moment-of-inertia value and an estimated moment-of-inertia value; a moment-of-inertia value change unit configured to change at least anyone of the moment-of-inertia value and a correction coefficient for the moment-of-inertia value based on the difference; and a change restriction unit configured to restrict a change in the moment-of-inertia value or the correction coefficient when at least any one of the moment-of-inertia value and the correction coefficient is changed to decrease by the moment-of-inertia value change unit.