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| 20080218116 | SERVO CONTROLLER - A servo controller for synchronously controlling a master driving source for driving a driving shaft and a slave driving source for driving a driven shaft, having a position control section that performs a position control based on a positional deviation which is a difference between a position command value given to the slave driving source and a feedback value detected from the slave driving source, an operational section that calculates a synchronization error which is a difference of the positional deviation between the master driving source and the slave driving source, and a correction data calculating section that calculates first correction data for correcting the positional deviation of the slave driving source. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20090009128 | CONTROL APPARATUS - A control apparatus of the present invention comprising a control unit outputting a control signal controlling a servo motor and suppressing natural vibration of a controlled object including a motor and a machine driven by the motor while controlling the controlled object, comprising a frequency analysis unit analyzing a frequency component included in a torque command, an analysis control unit controlling the start or stopping of the frequency analysis unit, a detection unit detecting a natural frequency of the controlled object from an analysis result of the frequency analysis unit, a-band rejection filter receiving as input the torque command, stripping the command of the natural frequency component, and outputting the resultant command to the motor through a current control unit and servo amplifier, and a filter characteristic setting unit setting the frequency to be stripped at the filter based on the natural frequency detected by the detection unit. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20100148714 | INERTIA ESTIMATING CONTROLLER AND CONTROL SYSTEM - A controller and a control system capable of estimating inertia of an article to be driven in a short period of time, with a small operation range of an electric motor. The controller for the motor has an inertia estimating part which includes a sine-wave command generating part which adds a sine-wave command to a torque command for the motor; a current feedback sampling part which obtains a current value of the motor; a speed feedback sampling part which obtains a speed feedback of the motor; an acceleration calculating part which calculates an acceleration value based on the speed feedback; and an estimated inertia calculating part which estimates the inertia of the article, based on a representative current value, a representative acceleration value and a torque constant of the motor, which are calculated from current and acceleration values in a plurality of cycles of the sine-wave command and stored in a sampling data storing part. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100181955 | MOTOR CONTROLLER FOR TANDEM CONTROL - In position tandem control in which one movable member is driven by two motors, an output of the integral element of the velocity control unit in the control system for one motor is copied to the integral element of the velocity control unit in the control system for the other motor. A preload is added to a torque command output from each of the velocity control units in the motor control systems for two motors so that torques in mutually opposite directions are generated to suppress backlash between gears. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100219787 | MOTOR DRIVE SYSTEM FOR DRIVING MOTOR PROVIDED WITH A PLURALITY OF WINDINGS - A motor drive system is provided with a plurality of axis control parts for outputting PWM commands using a position command, a plurality of current supply parts which supply current to the respective windings based on the PWM commands of the respective axis control parts, and which are connected to the respective windings, a motor position detector for outputting a signal of a rotor position of the motor, a first signal supply part for supplying the output signal to one current supply part of the plurality of current supply parts, and a second signal supply part for supplying the signal supplied through the first signal supply part to an axis control part corresponding to one current supply part, and the corresponding axis control part outputs a PWM command based on the signal supplied from the one current supply part through the second signal supply part to the corresponding axis control part and the position command, and the remaining axis control part outputs the PWM command based on the signal supplied from the corresponding axis control part to the remaining axis control parts and the position command. Thereby, a motor drive system capable of driving a plurality of inverters can be made simple. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100295495 | SERVO CONTROL APPARATUS THAT PERFORMS DUAL-POSITION FEEDBACK CONTROL - A servo control apparatus that performs dual-position feedback control and thereby achieves a reduction in position error according to the purpose of machining. The servo control apparatus includes: a first position detector for detecting the position of a motor; a second position detector for detecting the position of a driven load; a first position error calculator for calculating a first position error based on a position command and motor position feedback; a second position error calculator for calculating a second position error based on the position command and driven load position feedback; a third position error calculator for calculating a third position error to be used for position control, by adding to the first position error a difference taken between the first position error and the second position error and passed through a time constant circuit; a selector for selecting either the second position error or the third position error for output; and a learning controller for learning an output of the selector, and for outputting an amount of compensation to be applied to the third position error. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20110050146 | CONTROLLER OF ELECTRIC MOTOR HAVING FUNCTION OF ESTIMATING INERTIA AND FRICTION SIMULTANEOUSLY - A controller estimates Coulomb friction itself together with inertia and viscous friction, and reduces the influence of the Coulomb friction on the accuracy of the estimated inertia. In addition, the controller estimates inertia, viscous friction and Coulomb friction simultaneously with sequential adaptation in which a Fourier transformer is not used but an inverse transfer function model is used in order to minimize the estimated error. Data sampled for a predetermined time need not be accumulated, as a result, a large amount of data memory is unnecessary. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110133681 | SERVOMOTOR CONTROL SYSTEM ENABLING HIGH-SPEED OSCILLATING MOTION TO BE HIGHLY PRECISE - A servomotor control system that includes a numerical control unit and servo control unit enables the use of learning control based on an angle synchronization method in high-speed oscillating motion performed by, for example, a jig grinder. The numerical control unit calculates a reference angle θ(=ωt), and also calculates a cyclic oscillation command F(t) according to the reference angle θ and a machining condition (angular velocity ω). The servo control unit calculates a difference between the value in the oscillation command F(t) and the position of the servomotor (positional difference ε) at intervals of a predetermined cycle, and performs learning control according to the reference angle θ, oscillation command F(t), and positional difference ε. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20120059506 | SERVO CONTROL SYSTEM CAPABLE OF IMPROVING PROCESSING ACCURACY - A servo control system capable of using an angle-based synchronization learning control, even when a reference position is not given, while maintaining the advantage of the angle-based synchronization method. The servo control system has X-, y- and z-axes servo controllers, each configured to control x-, y- and z-axes servomotors, respectively. Each of x- and y-axes servo controllers has a reference signal generating part configured to generate a reference signal which monotonically increases or varies in one direction, based on the position command of each axis transmitted from a higher-level controller. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120249025 | DETECTION DEVICE FOR DETECTING MAGNETIC POLE POSITION OF SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR, AND CONTROL APPARATUS EQUIPPED THEREWITH - A detection device for detecting a magnetic pole position of a synchronous motor includes a generating unit for generating a magnetic pole correction value based on the difference between a forward rotation d-phase voltage command and a reverse rotation d-phase voltage command, the d-phase voltage commands being used for rotating the synchronous motor and generated when the synchronous motor is driven in forward and reverse directions, respectively, by applying a prescribed d-phase current command after detecting a magnetic pole initial position at power-on of the synchronous motor, and a correcting unit for correcting the magnetic pole initial position based on the magnetic pole correction value and on a sensor reference position which defines a reference position of a sensor attached to the synchronous motor, and a control apparatus equipped with the detection device controls the rotation of the synchronous motor based on the corrected magnetic pole initial position. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20130026963 | ELECTRIC MOTOR CONTROLLER COMPRISING FUNCTION FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY ESTIMATING INERTIA, FRICTION, AND SPRING - A sinusoidal command is added to a torque command of a controller to acquire a velocity and a current value of an electric motor. An estimated coupling torque value is calculated by calculating an input torque value from the current value and a torque constant of the electric motor and further calculating a coupling torque value from a velocity difference, motor inertia, and the input torque. An estimated torque error is then calculated from the estimated coupling torque value and the coupling torque value, and inertia, friction, and a spring constant are estimated from the estimated torque error, the velocity, and the coupling torque value. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130106336 | MOTOR CONTROL APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH DEAD-ZONE PROCESSING UNIT | 05-02-2013 |
| 20140152204 | MAGNETIC POLE POSITION DETECTOR FOR SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR - A magnetic pole position detector includes, a voltage command unit that generates high-frequency voltage command in a dq coordinate system, a three-phase transformation unit that transforms the high-frequency voltage command in the dq coordinate system to high-frequency voltage command in a three-phase coordinate system by using an estimated magnetic pole position, a current detection unit that detects three-phase current fed from a power converter for generating drive power, a dq transformation unit that transforms the detected three-phase current to current in the dq coordinate system by using the estimated magnetic pole position, an estimated magnetic pole position calculation unit that calculates a new estimated magnetic pole position to be used in three-phase dq transformations, and a magnetic pole position confirmation unit that confirms that, when converging on a certain position, the estimated magnetic pole position is the magnetic pole position at the time when the synchronous motor is started. | 06-05-2014 |
