摘要:
An electric power steering apparatus for a vehicle includes a protection circuit for stopping operation of an electric motor provided to apply a steering assist force to a steering system of the vehicle. The protection circuit is operable to stop operation of the electric motor when an ignition off signal is supplied from an ignition sensor and at least one of an engine speed signal supplied from an engine speed sensor and a vehicle velocity signal supplied from a vehicle velocity sensor falls below a corresponding predetermined value. Even if an ignition on signal is not supplied during movement of the vehicle due to a failure in the ignition sensor, when the engine speed signal or the vehicle velocity signal is above the predetermined value, the vehicle is regarded as being in the running state and operation of the electric motor is continued to apply the steering assist force to the steering system. With this arrangement, a good and stable steering feel can be obtained during movement of the vehicle.
摘要:
An electric power steering apparatus includes a control unit having a sensor fault detecting section, a first drive control signal generating section, a second drive control signal generating section, and a motor drive control mode switching section. When the sensor fault detecting section does not detect any faulty sensor, operation of an electric motor is feedback-controlled in such a manner that an offset between a target current set in accordance with a steering torque and a motor current becomes zero, and the motor applies a steering assist torque to the steering system on the basis of a first drive control signal supplied from the first drive control signal generating section. When a faulty sensor is detected by the sensor fault detecting section, the motor drive control switching section changes over drive control modes of the motor such that the motor is feedforward-controlled on the basis of a second drive control signal which is generated by the second drive control signal generating section on the basis of a target current signal set in accordance with a steering torque.
摘要:
An electric power steering apparatus comprises a motor for applying an auxiliary torque to a steering system, a steering torque sensor for detecting a steering torque in the steering system and a control unit for drive-controlling the motor based on at least a steering torque signal from the steering torque sensor. The control unit includes a motor control unit and a failure detecting unit for detecting a failure of the control unit. Based on a failure detection signal from the failure detecting unit, the motor drive control unit switches over from a normal mode in which no failure exists in the apparatus to a first failure mode in which a certain failure exists in the apparatus and an assist ratio is changed to about half of that of the normal mode.
摘要:
An electrically operated power steering apparatus in a motor vehicle has a steering system for steering the motor vehicle, a steering torque detector for detecting a manual steering torque applied to the steering system, and an electric motor for generating an assistive torque to be transmitted as a steering assistive force to the steering system. An actual assistive torque detector detects an actual assistive steering torque which is actually transmitted from the electric motor to the steering system. A controller has at least a target assistive torque generator for generating a target value for an assistive torque to be generated by the electric motor depending on the manual steering torque detected by the steering torque detector, and generates a control signal based on the difference between the actual assistive steering torque detected by the actual assistive torque detector and the target value generated by the target assistive torque generator. The electric motor is energized by a motor driver based on the control signal from the controller.
摘要:
An electric power steering apparatus provides a steering power assist of a motor to the steering system of an associated automotive vehicle, so as to reduce necessary steering power to be applied by a driver. The steering apparatus includes an attenuation device in the form of a phase delay circuit or an active low-pass filter, which is provided in a feedback loop connecting a motor current detector and a control section of a control unit constituting the vehicle steering system. By the attenuation device attenuating relatively high frequency components of motor current detected by the motor current detector, there is achieved a high-performance electric power steering apparatus which is capable of reducing noise in the feedback loop, without affecting the motor current, to a sufficient degree to highly improve a response to a driver's steering operation.
摘要:
An electrically operated power steering apparatus basically has a steering torque sensor, a steering rotational speed sensor, and preferably a vehicle sensor. A controller outputs a motor control signal based on a steering torque, a steering rotational speed, and a vehicle speed which are detected by the steering torque sensor, the steering rotational speed sensor, and the vehicle sensor, respectively. The motor control signal is applied to control a motor driver to output a motor drive signal which energizes an electric motor to produce an assistive steering force or a braking force. The electrically operated power steering apparatus is effective to improve steering and returning characteristics of a steering system, and give the steering system a stable steering capability.
摘要:
This invention is an electric power steering apparatus for applying the power of an electric motor to a steering system to reduce the steering torque, comprising a steering torque detection means, steering rotating speed detection means, a differential operation means, an electric motor control signal determination means, and an electric motor drive means. The apparatus detects the steering torque and steering rotating speed of the steering system to generate as an electric motor control signal a control quantity obtained by damping the value corresponding to the steering rotating speed from the value corresponding to the steering torque and then adding to the result a steering torque differential value in order to drive the electric motor based on this electric motor control signal, thereby enabling a steering assist torque corresponding to a change in the steering torque to be obtained even when a steering operation with a sudden increase in the steering torque is performed and thus enabling a responsive steering assist torque to be generated to improve the steering feeling.
摘要:
Provided is an electric power steering device in which the operation feeling is improved without a decrease in commercial value. A phase compensation unit performs a frequency shift on a compensation frequency band compensated by the phase compensation unit. The phase compensation unit performs phase-shift in the compensation frequency band through a frequency shift process, instead of an increase in compensation gain. Therefore, it is possible to minimize occurrences of minute vibrations and abnormal noise in the steering system including the motor that accompany an increase in gain, and to improve the operation feeling and commercial value.
摘要:
Provided is an electric power steering device in which the operation feeling is improved without a decrease in commercial value. A phase compensation unit performs a frequency shift on a compensation frequency band compensated by the phase compensation unit. The phase compensation unit performs phase-shift in the compensation frequency band through a frequency shift process, instead of an increase in compensation gain. Therefore, it is possible to minimize occurrences of minute vibrations and abnormal noise in the steering system including the motor that accompany an increase in gain, and to improve the operation feeling and commercial value.
摘要:
A motor control device includes: a rotation angle detection portion that detects a rotation angle of a motor and outputs a rotation angle signal; an abnormal condition detection portion that detects the presence or absence of an abnormal condition of the rotation angle detection portion; a rotation angle estimation portion that estimates the rotation angle of the motor and outputs an estimate rotation angle signal; and a driving control portion that controls driving of the motor on the basis of the rotation angle signal, which is output from the rotation angle detection portion, when the abnormal condition detection portion does not detect an abnormal condition of the rotation angle detection portion, and controls driving of the motor on the basis of the estimate rotation angle signal, which is output from the rotation angle estimation portion, when the abnormal condition detection portion detects an abnormal condition of the rotation angle detection portion.