Control apparatus for rotating machine
A control apparatus controls a rotating machine including a stator having groups of phase windings, to control current application to the groups. The control apparatus includes power converters converting received power to AC power and supplying the AC power to the rotating machine, a harmonic component cancellation section reducing a harmonic component superimposed on a fundamental wave component by a cancellation process in an estimated-rotating coordinate system for at least one of voltage and current of each system, when a unit of a group of components controlling current application to a specific group of the windings is defined as a system, an induced voltage estimation section estimating an induced voltage based on information common to the systems including a voltage value and a current value calculated by the cancellation process, and a magnetic-pole-position estimation section estimating a magnetic pole position of a rotor based on the estimated induced voltage.
1. A control apparatus for a rotating machine, the control apparatus controlling the rotating machine that includes a stator having a plurality of groups of three phases or more multiple phase windings, to control current application to the groups of windings by using sensorless position control, the control apparatus comprising:
a plurality of power converters that convert received electric power to AC power and supply the AC power to the rotating machine;
a harmonic component cancellation section that reduces a harmonic component superimposed on a fundamental wave component by a cancellation process in an estimated rotating coordinate system for at least one of a voltage and a current of each system, when a unit of a group of components controlling current application to a specific group of the windings is defined as a system;
an induced voltage estimation section that estimates an induced voltage based on information common to the systems including a voltage value and a current value calculated by the cancellation process; and
a magnetic pole position estimation section that estimates a magnetic pole position of a rotor of the rotating machine based on the induced voltage estimated by the induced voltage estimation section.
2. The control apparatus for a rotating machine according to claim 1 , wherein
the harmonic component cancellation section includes, as the cancellation process, at least one of a voltage adder that adds voltage command values in the estimated rotating coordinate system of the systems and a current adder that adds current detection values in the estimated rotating coordinate system of the systems.
3. The control apparatus for a rotating machine according to claim 1 , wherein
the induced voltage estimation section and the magnetic pole position estimation section perform estimation calculation by using the number of rotations of the rotating machine, and, as parameters of the rotating machine, resistance, self inductance, and mutual inductance.
4. The control apparatus for a rotating machine according to claim 3 , further comprising a parameter changing section that changes a value of the parameter of the rotating machine depending on an operating state of the rotating machine.
5. The control apparatus for a rotating machine according to claim 1 , wherein the control apparatus performs current feedback control by using the current having been subjected to the cancellation process of the harmonic component cancellation section.