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Motor control with digital feedback

Assignee: Kollmorgen Corp
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Filing: 1989-08-02
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Granted: 1991-02-12
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Expires: 2009-08-02
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Abstract

Abstract A motor feedback control system which in addition to a quantized digital position feedback value, uses a feedback signal which represents the error between the actual motor position and the quantized digital position. The error function is combined with the quantized digital position value to produce a digital position value with greater resolution. The combined value is differentiated to produce a velocity value for velocity feedback control of the motor.

Inventors

  • 👤 George H. Ellis

Bibliographic Details

Application Number —
Jurisdiction US
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Last Synchronized 2026-11-05 04:04
CPC Classifications
G; G05; G05B; G05B19/00; G05B19/02; G05B19/18; G05B19/19; G05B19/39; G05B2219/00; G05B2219/30; G05B2219/37; G05B2219/37294; G05B2219/37313; G05B2219/42; G05B2219/42237

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 9
Claim 1
Independent Claim 121 words
A digital feedback motor control system, comprising: microcontroller means for generating a digital command representing at least one motor parameter value; resolver means having a resolver to digital converter for providing a quantized digital value representing coarse motor position and a linear analog signal representing the difference between said coarse motor position and actual motor position; means for scaling and converting said linear analog signal into a fine digital value representing fine motor position. means for providing a digital feedback data representing the combination of said quantized digital value and said fine digital value; means for differencing said digital command with said digital feedback data; and means for converting data from said differencing means into excitation current for driving said motor.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 121 words
A digital feedback motor control system, comprising: microcontroller means for generating a digital command representing at least one motor parameter value; resolver means having a resolver to digital converter for providing a quantized digital value representing coarse motor position and a linear analog signal representing the difference between said coarse motor position and actual motor position; means for scaling and converting said linear analog signal into a fine digital value representing fine motor position. means for providing a digital feedback data representing the combination of said quantized digital value and said fine digital value; means for differencing said digital command with said digital feedback data; and means for converting data from said differencing means into excitation current for driving said motor.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 17 words
The system according to claim 1, including memory means for storing phase angle data of said motor.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 31 words
The system according to claim 1, in which the magnitude of said fine digital value is less than the magnitude of the second least significant bit of said quantized digital value.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 23 words
The system according to claim 1, in which said digital feedback data is differentiated to provide velocity feedback data for controlling motor velocity.
Claim 6
Independent Claim 105 words
A system for deriving parameter feedback data for electric motor control, comprising: a microcontroller for entering a digital command representing at least one motor parameter value; a resolver to measure motor position; a converter to convert said motor position to a coarse quantized data representing coarse motor position and a fine analog signal representing the linear difference between said coarse and actual motor position; an analog-to-digital converter to convert said fine analog signal to a fine digital data; an adder to combine said fine digital data with said coarse quantized data; whereby said combined data is used as feedback data to adjust said motor parameter.
Claim 7
Independent Claim 105 words
A system for deriving parameter feedback data for electric motor control, comprising: a microcontroller for entering a digital command representing at least one motor parameter value; a resolver to measure motor position; a converter to convert said motor position to a coarse quantized data representing coarse motor position and a fine analog signal representing the linear difference between said coarse and actual motor position; an analog-to-digital converter to convert said fine analog signal to a fine digital data; an adder to combine said fine digital data with said coarse quantized data; whereby said combined data is used as feedback data to adjust said motor parameter.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim 31 words
A system according to claim 5, in which the magnitude of said fine digitized data is less than the magnitude of the second least significant bit if said coarse digital data.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim 30 words
A system according to claim 5, in which said digital feedback data is differentiated to derive a digital velocity feedback data for feedback control of the velocity of said motor.

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