摘要:
Pre-defined driving profiles for the distinct phase-windings of an electronically controlled brushless motor are continuously reconstructed for each switching phase and forced in the form of a drive current or voltage on the respective windings, in synchronism with a signal indicative of the rotor position, from just a first complete sequence and at least a first sample of the successive sequence of a number of sequences, each of N samples, equal to the number of switching phases of the motor, in which is divided a complete digitized pre-defined profile. The digital samples are stored in a nonvolatile memory and that are scanned at a continuously regulated clock frequency and with varying order and direction of scanning for reconstructing the instantaneous driving profiles for all the windings.
摘要:
Synchronization of the phase switchings in driving a brushless motor with predefined excitation current profiles of substantially nonconstant value, is improved by continuously correcting the rotor position information detected by zero-cross detecting circuits with an updatable delay value. A switching delay counter is started by the raw zero-cross pulse to determine the generation of a corrected synchronization pulse. The delay counter is downloaded with a constantly updated value by monitoring the correction signal produced by a speed control loop and by incrementing or decrementing the downloaded value in the counter to minimize the correction signal.
摘要:
A method for starting-up in a desired forward sense of rotation a multiphase, brushless, sensorless, DC motor, while limiting the extent of a possible backward rotation. First, a predetermined initial phase is excited (thereby accelerating the rotor toward an equilibrium position for that initial phase), for only a fraction of the time necessary for the accelerated rotor to travel through a nearest angular position which would determine a "zero-crossing" in the waveform of any one of the back electromotive forces (BEMFs) which are induced by the rotor on the windings of the motor. After the elapsing of this brief impulse of excitation, the sign of the BEMFs induced in the windings of the motor are digitally read thus producing a first reading. The occurrence of a first "zero-crossing" event is monitored, and, if this happens within a preset interval of time subsequent to the instant of interruption of the first excitation impulse, the optimal phase to be excited first for accelerating the motor in the desired direction is decoded through a look-up table, and the start-up process may proceed. If such a zero-crossing occurrence is not detected within said period of time, the routine is repeated by exciting a different phase, which is functionally shifted by two phase positions from the initial phase. The maximum backward rotation that may occur in the worst of cases is sensibly less than the angular distance which separates two adjacent equilibrium positions of the rotor and in practice may be of just few degrees.
摘要:
A method for starting-up in a desired forward sense of rotation a multiphase, brushless, sensorless, DC motor, while limiting the extent of a possible backward rotation. First, a predetermined initial phase is excited (thereby accelerating the rotor toward an equilibrium position for that initial phase), for only a fraction of the time necessary for the accelerated rotor to travel through a nearest angular position which would determine a "zero-crossing" in the waveform of any one of the back electromotive forces (BEMFs) which are induced by the rotor on the windings of the motor. After the elapsing of this brief impulse of excitation, the sign of the BEMFs induced in the windings of the motor are digitally read thus producing a first reading. The occurrence of a first "zero-crossing" event is monitored, and, if this happens within a preset interval of time subsequent to the instant of interruption of the first excitation impulse, the optimal phase to be excited first for accelerating the motor in the desired direction is decoded through a look-up table, and the start-up process may proceed. If such a zero-crossing occurrence is not detected within said period of time, the routine is repeated by exciting a different phase, which is functionally shifted by two phase positions from the initial phase. The maximum backward rotation that may occur in the worst of cases is sensibly less than the angular distance which separates two adjacent equilibrium positions of the rotor and in practice may be of just few degrees.