Controlling apparatus for induction motor

Abstract: By detecting that an induction motor has entered in regenerative running, the velocity or voltage is corrected such that the q-axis flux takes a negative value in regenerative running, thereby preventing the torque from being reduced by flux change and suppressing an insufficient torque.

Description: The present invention relates to a controlling apparatus for an induction motor and, more particularly, to an induction motor controlling apparatus that stably controls an induction motor also in a regenerative operation in which the induction motor is operated at synchronous speed or higher. As a controlling method of an induction motor controlling apparatus for controlling an induction motor at variable speed, V/f control (voltage/velocity constant control) is known. In this method, variable-speed control can be performed on an induction motor by a simple constitution. However, at low speed, the flux inside the induction motor becomes small due to influences such as a voltage drop by primary resistance, thereby reducing an output torque. A method to improve the torque characteristic at low speed, is disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. Hei 6-225574 (1994). Fig. 3 shows an example of prior art. In the figure, a controlling apparatus comprises a power supply 1, a power converter 2 for performing power conversion based on 3-phase voltage references Vu, Vv and Vw, an induction motor 3 which is an object of the control, a current component detector 4 for detecting an excitation current Id and a torque current Iq from currents Iu and Iv flowing through the induction motor 3, a frequency controller 16 for outputting a reference angular frequency ω from the torque current Iq detected by the current component detector 4 and a reference angular velocity ω r*, a voltage controller 5 for outputting a d-axis voltage reference Vd and a q-axis voltage reference Vq from the excitation current Id, the torque current Iq, and the reference angular frequency ω, an integrator 11 for integrating the reference angular frequency ω to output a phase , and a 2-phase-to-3-phase rotational coordinate transformer 15 for performing 2-phase-to-3-phase transformation on the d-axis voltage reference Vd and the q-axis voltage reference Vq based on the phase  to output the 3-phase voltage references Vu, Vv and Vw. The frequency controller 16 estimates a slip of the induction motor from the torque current and controls the reference angular frequency ω by adding the reference angular velocity ω r*, thereby coinciding with an actual rotational angular velocity ω r with the reference angular velocity ω r*. The voltage controller 5 comprises an adder 13 for obtaining a deviation between an excitation current reference Id* and the excitation current Id, a controller 12 for controlling a voltage correction amount Δ V such that this deviation becomes zero, and a voltage vector arithmetic unit 14 for obtaining a voltage reference based on equation 1 below and, by using the voltage correction amount Δ V, obtaining the d-axis voltage reference Vd and the q-axis voltage reference Vq from equation 2 below to output the results. In the equation 1 above, R1 is a primary resister of the induction motor, L σ is a leak inductance of primary conversion of the induction motor (L σ = (L1·L2 - M·M)/L2, L1 is a primary self inductance of the induction motor, L2 is a secondary self inductance of the induction motor, and M is a mutual inductance of the induction motor. Where, K2 is a gain for determining a correction amount of Vq for Vd. A state equation of the induction motor in a coordinates system rotating at the angular velocity ω is expressed in equation 3. In the equation 3, R2 is a secondary resistance . of the induction motor, ω r is a rotational angular velocity of the induction motor, ω s is a slip angular frequency of the induction motor, s is a differential operator,  d is a d-axis flux of the induction motor, and  q is a q-axis flux of the induction motor. R2' is a primarily converted secondary resistance of the induction motor, which is expressed in equation 4 below. R2' = (M/L2) 2 ·R2 When the d-axis flux  d and the q-axis flux  q are solved in a steady state (s = 0) with the equation 1 substituted in the equation 3,equations 5 and 6 are derived,since the excitation current Id coinsides with the excitation current reference Id* (Id = Id*).  d = M·Id*  d= 0 From the equations 5 and 6, it is known that constant flux magnitude and matching of the flux with the d-axis are obtained without being dependent on the reference angular frequency ω and load. This indicates that an output torque will not be reduced at low speed. Further, since a slip is given by equation 7, the slip can be estimated from the torque current Iq. ωs = R2 L2 · Id* I q On the other hand, the voltage correction amount . Δ V eliminates the effects of a voltage error in the power converter 2 and errors of constants in the voltage controller 5 and the induction motor 3 by making zero the deviation between the excitation current reference and the excitation current. In the above-mentioned control method, however, a sufficient torque may not be obtained when the induction motor is rotating at speed over the synchronous speed, namely, in regenerative running. In the following, operation in case of the forward drive in which the rotational angular velocity ω r is positive are described for reverse rotation in which the rotational angular velocity ω r is negative, the signs of the slip angular frequency ω s, torque current Iq, torque T, and q-axis flux  q are only inverted. Fig. 4 shows a block diagram which is equivalent to the equation 3. Gain G at the DC current in an open loop which is obtained by cutting the loop a at point A is given by equation 8. When the induction motor is rotating at speed lower than the synchronous speed, namely in power running, the signs of the slip angular frequency ω s and the rotational angular velocity ω r coincide, so that the gain G becomes a negative value. In the regenerative running, the signs of the slip angular frequency ω s and the rotational angular velocity ω r are different from each other, so that the gain G becomes a positive value. As the absolute value of the slip angular frequency ω s increases moreover, the gain G also increases. As generally known, when a gain in an open loop is smaller than one, the loop converges; when it is larger than one, the loop diverges. That is, as the absolute value of the slip angular frequency ω s increases in the regenerative running, the q-axis flux  q will diverge. Fig. 5 shows a part of the block diagram equivalent to the equation 3. From the relationship b shown in Fig. 5, as the absolute value of the slip angular frequency ω s increases in the regenerative running, the q-axis flux  q which is intrinsically zero temporarily increases in the positive direction because the d-axis flux is positive. When the absolute value of the slip is large, the diversion occurs as described above so that the absolute value of the q-axis flux  q increases. On the other hand, since the slip angular frequency ω s is negative in the regenerative running, the d-axis flux  d decreases from the relationship c shown in Fig. 5. The torque T of the induction motor is obtained from equation 9. T= 3P 4 · M L2 (d·Iq―q·Id) In the above equation, P indicates the number of poles of the induction motor. When the q-axis flux  q increases and the d-axis flux  d decreases, in the regenerative running the d-axis current Id becomes a positive value and the absolute value of the torque decreases because the q-axis current is a negative value. Fig. 6 shows a temporal variation of the d-axis flux ϕ d and the q-axis flux ϕ q at that time. In the above description, the forward running of the induction motor has been explained. It is apparent that the absolute value of the torque also decreases in the reverse rotation. EP-A-0598921 discloses a controlling apparatus for a three-phone induction motor which detects a torque current orthogonal to the flux of the including motor from the detected value of the current, uses a voltage reference to calculate the output voltage, and detects power running and regeneration of the motor. Thus this document corresponds to the pre-characterising part of claim 1. In EP-A-0598921, the detection of a generation is on the basis of current. FR-A-2438372 also discloses a control separation for an induction motor on which the motor is forced to operated on a predetermined torque versus slip frequency characteristic. According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a controlling apparatus for an induction motor for controlling said induction motor by controlling an output angular frequency and an output voltage based on a reference angular velocity (ωr*), comprising: a current component detector for detecting a torque current orthogonal to the flux of said induction motor from a detected value of current of said induction motor; a frequency controller for calculating a reference angular frequency (ω) using said reference angular velocity (ωr*) a voltage controller for calculating said output voltage using said reference angular frequency (ω); and a regeneration determination section for detecting power running and regeneration of said induction motor; wherein: the regeneration determination section is arranged to detect based on the torque current form the current component detector and said reference angular frequency (ω); and the apparatus further comprises: an angular frequency correcting section for adding an amount proportioned to the torque current output from said current component detector to said reference angular frequency (ω) only when said regeneration determining section determines a regenerative state, the result of such addition being used as the output angular frequency. According to a second aspect of the present invention there is provided a controlling apparatus for an induction motor for controlling said induction motor by controlling an output angular frequency and an output voltage based on a reference angular velocity (ωr*), comprising: a current component detector for detecting a torque current orthogonal to the flux of said induction motor from a detected value of current of said induction motor; a frequency controller for calculating a reference angular frequency (ω) using said reference angular velocity (ωr*) a voltage controller for calculating said output voltage using said reference angular frequency; and a regeneration determination section for detecting power running and regeneration of said induction motor; wherein: the regeneration determination section is arranged to detect based on the torque current from the current component detector and the reference angular frequency (ω); and the apparatus further comprises: a correction amount arithmetic unit for selecting a correction amount due to a voltage drop due to a primary using said correction amount in its calculation of said output voltage. The present invention thus may provide a controlling apparatus for an induction motor which prevents an induction motor torque from getting lower in regenerative running to assure the output of enough torque in the regenerative running. Thus, when at least one of a velocity and a voltage is corrected in regenerative running, the q-axis flux ϕ q decreases due to the above-mentioned dispersion because the value of the q-axis flux ϕ q is negative, while the d-axis flux ϕ d increases due to the relationship d of Fig. 5, thereby increasing the absolute value of the torque from the equation. Consequently, the setup prevents the torque from getting smaller. In the drawings Fig. 1 is a block diagram illustrating the induction motor controlling apparatus practiced as one embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 2 is a block diagram illustrating the induction motor controlling apparatus practiced as another embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a prior-art of the induction motor controlling apparatus. Fig. 4 is a block diagram illustrating induction motor operations. Fig. 5 is a block diagram illustrating induction motor operations. Fig. 6 is a diagram illustrating flux waveforms for describing induction motor operations. Fig. 7 is a diagram illustrating flux waveforms for describing the principles of induction motor operations. Fig. 8 is a block diagram illustrating the constitution of the regeneration determining section. Fig. 9 is a graph indicating regeneration determining areas. Fig. 10 is a graph indicating regeneration determining areas. Fig. 11 is a graph indicating regeneration determining areas. Fig. 12 is a block diagram illustrating the constitution of the velocity controller. This invention will be described in further detail with reference to the drawings.The embodied controlling apparatuses for an induction motor will be described with reference to the related block diagrams; the controlling apparatuses can be comprised of a microprocessor. Referring to Fig. 1, there is shown a block diagram illustrating one preferred embodiment of the present invention.The controlling apparatus of Fig. 1, differ from that of Fig. 3 in the point that, the input to the integrator 11 is not a reference angular frequency ω but a second reference angular frequency ω' which is the output from the frequency correcting section 10 for correcting the reference angular frequency ω. The frequency correcting section 10 of Fig. 1 comprises a regeneration determining section 6 for detecting based on a reference angular frequency ω and a torque current Iq that the induction motor is in a regenerative state, a correction amount output section 7 for outputting a correction amount proportional to the torque current Iq, a selector 9 for outputting the output of the correction amount output section only at regeneration based on the output of the regeneration determining section 6, and a subtracter 8 for subtracting the output of the selector 9 from the reference angular frequency ω. Next, the operations to be performed by the above-mentioned controlling apparatus will be described. In power running, the same operations as those performed by the prior-art counterpart of Fig. 3 are performed. Therefore, in the following, only the operations to be performed in regenerative running will be described. In addition, only the case in which the rotational angular velocity ω r has a positive value, namely the induction motor is rotating forward will be described. When the rotational angular velocity ω r is negative, namely the induction motor is rotating reversely, the signs of the slip angular frequency ω s, torque current Iq, torque T, and q-axis flux  q are only inverted. According to the controlling apparatus of Fig.1, since the torque current Iq is negative at the regenerative running, there is a relationship ω < ω' where ω indicates the reference angular frequency used in the voltage controller 5 and ω' indicates a second reference angular frequency to be inputted in the integrator 11. This is equivalent to the state in which the slip angular frequency ω s has increased in the equation 10 derived from the third line of the equation 3. q = 1 1+(L2/R2)·s (M·Iq―ωs·(L2/R2)·d) It will be apparent that, as the slip angular frequency ω s increases, the q-axis flux  q which is zero for the controlling apparatus of Fig. 3 goes negative. Even in such a state,when the absolute value of slip is large the dispersion occurs as mentioned above, and the absolute value of the q-axis flux  q increases. On the other hand, since the slip angular frequency ω s is negative at the regenerative running, the d-axis flux  d increases due to the relationship c of Fig. 5 as mentioned above. When the q-axis flux  q decreases and the d-axis flux  d increases, the absolute value of the torque increases, due to the equation 9 for the torque and that at the regenerative running the d-axis current Id is positive and the q-axis current is negative. Consequently, the torque shortage can be avoided. Fig. 7 shows temporal variations of the d-axis flux  d and the q-axis flux  q. In the about, the case of the forward derive is explained, In the reverse drive, only the signs of the slip angular frequency ω s, torque current Iq, torque T, and q-axis flux  q are reversed and the same effect can be obtained as the foward drive. Fig. 2 shows another embodiment of the present invention. The controlling apparatus of Fig. 2 differs from the prior art of Fig. 3 in that, for the primary resistance R1 of the induction motor for use in the voltage vector arithmetic unit 14, the corrected primary resistance , namely the output of a correction amount arithmetic unit 20, is used. The correction amount arithmetic unit 20 of Fig. 2 comprises a regeneration determining section 6 for detecting from the reference angular frequency ω and the torque current Iq that the induction motor is in a regenerative state, a selector 18 for outputting a primary resistance corrected value 17 only at regeneration based on the output of the regeneration determining section 6, and an adder 19 for adding a primary resistance setting value R1* to the output of the selector 18 to output the primary resistance R1 for use in the voltage vector arithmetic unit 14. Details of the regeneration determining section 6 will be described later. The following describes the operations of the controlling apparatus of Fig. 2 mentioned above. In power running, the same operations as those performed by the prior art of Fig. 3 are performed. Therefore, only the operations to be performed in regenerative running will be described below. In addition, the case in which the rotational angular velocity ω r has a positive value, namely the induction motor is rotating forward will be described. When the rotational angular velocity ω r is negative, namely the induction motor is rotating reversely, the signs of the slip angular frequency ω s, torque current Iq, torque T, and q-axis flux  q are inverted. According to the controlling apparatus of Fig. 2, since the primary resistance R1 of the voltage controller 5 increases and, the torque current Iq is negative at the regenerative running < 0, the q-axis voltage reference Vq, namely the output of the voltage controller 5 decreases. Consequently, the torque current Iq decreases and the q-axis flux  q which was 0 for the controlling apparatus of Fig. 3 goes negative from the equation 10. This results in the same operation as that of the controlling apparatus of Fig. 1, preventing the torque from getting insufficient. In the above , the operation in the forward drive is decribed. In the reverse drive, only the signs of the slip angular frequency ω s, torque current Iq, torque T, and q-axis flux  q are reversed to the same effect as mentioned above. The regeneration determining section 6 of the above-mentioned embodiments of Figs. 1 and 2 can be implemented by a constitution of Fig. 8 for example. The regeneration determining section 6 of Fig. 8 comprises a velocity estimating section 100 for outputting an estimated rotational angular velocity ω re obtained from equation 11 below based on the reference angular frequency ω and the torque current Iq and a regeneration determining section 101 for determining regeneration from the estimated rotational angular velocity ω re and the torque current Iq. ω re = ω - K3·Iq Where, K3 is a slip constant, and given by K3 = R2/(L2·Id*). The determining section 101 determines that the induction motor is in the regenerative state in the state of Fig. 9, namely when the sign of the estimated rotational angular velocity ω re and the sign of the torque current Iq are different from each other. The regeneration determining section 6 may take another constitution to determin that the induction motor is in the regenerative state, in the state of Fig. 10, namely the state in which the sign of the reference angular frequency ω and the sign of the torque current Iq are different. This constitution is simpler than the above-mentioned constitutions. Further, if the rotation frequency of the induction motor can be detected, the regeneration determining section 6 may have still another constitution to determin that the induction motor is in the regenerative state, in the state of Fig. 11, namely the state in which the sign of the detected rotational angular velocity ω r and the sign of the torque current Iq are different. In this case, the regenerative state can be detected more accurately than in the above-mentioned constitutions. In the above-mentioned embodiments, the torque current Iq is used. If the velocity controller 16 has a constitution of Fig. 12 for example, control is made such that the torque current Iq coinsides with the torque current reference Iq*, so that, instead of the torque current Iq, the torque current reference Iq* may be used partially or totally in the voltage controller 5, the velocity correcting section 10, the correction amount arithmetic unit 20, and the velocity estimating section 100. The velocity controller 16 of Fig. 12 comprises a velocity estimating section 100 for calculating the estimated rotational angular velocity ω re according to the equation 11, a velocity controller 110 for controlling the torque current reference Iq* based on the deviation between the reference angular velocity ω r* and the estimated rotational angular velocity ω re such that the estimated angular velocity ω re coincides with the reference angular velocity ω r*, and a current controller 111 for controlling the reference angular frequency ω based on the deviation between the torque current reference Iq* and the torque current Iq such that the torque current Iq coinsides with the torque current reference Iq*. If only the torque current Iq is used for calculation in the voltage controller 5, the frequency correcting section 10, the correction amount arithmetic unit 20, and the velocity estimating section 100, any of the above-mentioned embodiments may have a constitution in which the reference angular frequency ty ω is given instead of the reference angular velocity ω r* by omitting the velocity reference section 16. As mentioned above, according to the induction motor controlling apparatus of the present invention,the torque shortage at regenerative running.can be prevented.

Claims: A controlling apparatus for an induction motor (3) for controlling said induction motor (3) by controlling an output angular frequency and an output voltage based on a reference angular velocity (ωr*), comprising: a current component detector (4) for detecting a torque current orthogonal to the flux of said induction motor (3) from a detected value of current of said induction motor; a frequency controller (16) for calculating a reference angular frequency (ω)using said reference angular velocity (ωr*) a voltage controller (14) for calculating said output voltage using said reference angular frequency (ω); and a regeneration determination section (6) for detecting power running and regeneration of said induction motor; characterised in that : the regeneration determination section (6) is arranged to detect based on the torque current from the current component detector (4) and said reference angular frequency (ω); and the apparatus further comprises: an angular frequency correcting section (7) for adding an amount proportioned to the torque current output from said current component detector (4) to said reference angular frequency (ω) only when said regeneration determining section (6) determines a regenerative state, the result of such addition being used as the output angular frequency. A controlling apparatus for an induction motor (3) for controlling said induction motor (3) by controlling an output angular frequency and an output voltage based on a reference angular velocity (ωr*), comprising: a current component detector (4) for detecting a torque current orthogonal to the flux of said induction motor (3) from a detected value of current of said induction motor; a frequency controller (16) for calculating a reference angular frequency (ω)using said reference angular velocity (ωr*) a voltage controller (14) for calculating said output voltage using said reference angular frequency; and a regeneration determination section (6) for detecting power running and regeneration of said induction motor; characterised in that : the regeneration determination section (6) is arranged to detect based on the torque current from the current component detector (4) and the reference angular frequency (ω); and the apparatus further comprises: a correction amount arithmetic unit (17, 18, 19) for selecting a correction amount due to a voltage drop due to a primary resistance of said induction motor on the basis of the determination of a regenerative state by said regeneration determining section (6), the voltage controller (14) using said correction amount in its calculation of said output voltage. A controlling apparatus according to claim 1 or claim 2, wherein said regeneration determining section is arranged to determine regeneration and power running from a sign of a value of the reference angular frequency (ω) and a sign of the torque current. A controlling apparatus according to claim 1 or claim 2, wherein said regeneration determining section is arranged to determine regeneration and power running from the reference angular velocity (ωr*) or an estimated angular velocity (ωr*) and a sign of the torque current. A controlling apparatus according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein said frequency controller (16) is arranged to receive said torque current and use said torque current in the determination of said reference angular frequency (ω). A controlling apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein said torque current is controlled to coincide with a torque current reference and wherein said frequency controller is arranged to use said torque current reference in the determination of said reference angular frequency (ω). A controlling apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said torque current reference is used by at least one of said regeneration determining section (6), said velocity correcting section and said voltage controller (14).

Inventors: FUJI HIROSHI, ISHIDA SEIJI, OKUYAMA TOSHIAKI, OOHASHI HIRONORI, TOBARI KAZUAKI, TOMITA HIROYUKI, FUJI, HIROSHI, ISHIDA, SEIJI, OKUYAMA, TOSHIAKI, OOHASHI, HIRONORI, TOBARI, KAZUAKI, TOMITA, HIROYUKI
Applicants: HITACHI LTD, HITACHI, LTD.
Application year: 1996
Main classification: H02P21
IPC codes: H02P27, H02P21