EP1653904A2 - Systeme de commande de compresseur pour un ventilateur portable - Google Patents

Systeme de commande de compresseur pour un ventilateur portable

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EP1653904A2
EP1653904A2 EP04780095A EP04780095A EP1653904A2 EP 1653904 A2 EP1653904 A2 EP 1653904A2 EP 04780095 A EP04780095 A EP 04780095A EP 04780095 A EP04780095 A EP 04780095A EP 1653904 A2 EP1653904 A2 EP 1653904A2
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angular position
sensor
speed
rotor
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David Boyle
Michael Holmes
Malcolm Williams
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CareFusion 203 Inc
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Pulmonetic Systems Inc
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Definitions

  • This invention relates to control systems for electric motors, more particularly to a control system for an electric motor used to drive a compressor in a portable ventilator.
  • a purpose of a mechanical ventilator is to reproduce the body's normal breathing mechanism. Most mechanical ventilators create positive intrapulmonary pressure to assist breathing. Positive intrapulmonary pressure is created by delivering gas to the patient's lungs so that positive pressure is created within the alveoli (i.e. the final branches of the respiratory tree that act as the primary gas exchange units of the lung).
  • a mechanical ventilator is essentially a device that generates a controlled flow of gas (e.g., air or oxygen) into a patient's airways during the inhalation phase, and allows gas to flow out of the lungs during the exhalation phase.
  • Ventilators use various types of methods to facilitate precise delivery of air to the patient. Some ventilators use gas compressors to generate the proper amount of flow to satisfy the requirements of the patient. Most ventilator systems that have an internal gas source use either constant speed or variable speed compressors. Constant speed compressors are usually continuously operating, rotary-based machines that generate the desired flow from external air, for ultimate delivery to the patient. These constant speed systems generally use a downstream flow valve to control intermittent patient flow, with a bypass valve recirculating the excess flow.
  • Variable speed compressors operate by rapidly accelerating from a rest state to produce the flow rate necessary during the beginning of the inhalation cycle, and then decelerating to the rest state at the end of the inhalation cycle to allow the patient to exhale.
  • variable speed systems employed in the mechanical ventilator art: piston-based systems and rotary-based systems.
  • Rotary systems require low inertia components for the rapid acceleration and deceleration cycles.
  • prior art systems such as that described in U.S. Patent No. 5,868,133 to DeVries et al, use drag compressors to provide the desired inspiratory air flow.
  • Rotary compressor systems deliver the required air flow during inhalation by accelerating the compression rotor(s) to the desired speed at the beginning of each inspiratory phase and decelerating the compression rotor(s) to the rest speed at the end of each inspiratory phase.
  • the rotary compressor is stopped, or rotated at a base rotational speed prior to commencement of each inspiratory ventilation phase.
  • the rotary compressor is accelerated to a greater rotational speed for delivering the desired inspiratory air flow.
  • the rotational speed of the compressor is decelerated to the base speed, or is stopped, until commencement of the next inspiratory ventilation phase.
  • BLDC motors have small form factors and very high reliability resulting from the lack of brushes and reduced frictional components.
  • BLDC motors are reversible motors that synchronize the poles of a rotor with a rotating stator field.
  • Classes of BLDC motors include permanent magnet types and variable reluctance types.
  • BLDC motors that use permanent magnets
  • the rotor is made of magnetic materials that provide high flux, resulting in good torque-to-size ratio at moderate cost.
  • the inherent dynamic braking and low rotor speed of the permanent magnet design ensure smooth operation and provide the type of rapid acceleration needed for the inspiratory cycle of a mechanical ventilator.
  • BLDC motors have very low torque ripple and are easily controllable over a broad range of speeds.
  • BLDC motors provide rapid acceleration and deceleration capability, as well as exceptional efficiency under full load conditions. These features are desirable in applications that require performance with minimal power consumption.
  • BLDC motor controllers e.g., controllers that rely solely on commutation states for motor control
  • portable ventilator systems require substantially instantaneous speed detection (e.g., one speed value every two to four milliseconds) to provide the necessary transient response in the speed control loop.
  • Speed detection based on sparse commutation state information would have a strong negative impact on the transient response of the speed control loop, especially at low speeds.
  • Simple BLDC motor controllers use a small number of commutation states (e.g., six states for a three-phase device) to describe the rotor position at any moment in time. Position information is therefore relatively coarse. For commutation control, this coarse position information is sufficient. For speed control, however, such coarse position information is problematic. The rate at which commutation position information is available is equal to the number of commutation states multiplied by the current speed of the rotor. At higher rotor speeds, there are more commutation position samples (i.e., state changes) per unit time, reducing the total amount of time required to compute an accurate speed value.
  • commutation states e.g., six states for a three-phase device
  • Optical encoders typically take the form of a finely notched or perforated disk attached to the rotor shaft of the BLDC motor, extending outward from the radius of the shaft.
  • a light- emitting device e.g., a light emitting diode (LED)
  • LED light emitting diode
  • a relatively accurate angular speed value can be determined by timing the interval between successive notches, or by counting the number of notches within a fixed sample period.
  • Figure 1 is a block diagram of a three-phase BLDC motor controller with an optical transducer.
  • three discrete Hall effect sensors located in the stator provide rotor position feedback for commutation control.
  • Each discrete Hall effect sensor provides 180 degrees of position sensing coverage.
  • Speed feedback is provided by an incremental optical transducer (i.e., an optical transducer that detects incremental changes in rotor position without reference to an absolute rotor position).
  • discrete Hall effect sensors 115A-C are located in a circle around the spinning rotor, approximately 120 electrical degrees apart to provide full coverage position feedback of the rotor of BLDC motor 110.
  • the binary outputs of discrete Hall effect sensors 115A, 115B, and 115C are connected to a decoder circuit 120 via communication lines 103A, 103B, and 103C, respectively.
  • each Hall effect sensor goes high when the positive pole of a magnet attached to the rotor is aligned within the 180- degree arc centered on the given sensor. Because there are three sensors 120 degrees apart, there are roughly 60 degrees of sensor overlap, where the outputs of two sensors are high at the same time (actual region of overlap may depend on the distance between the sensors). Given the above arrangement of sensors, and representing the combined sensor outputs as a three-bit digital word, the possible three-bit values (i.e., states) assigned to rotor positioning are: (1 0 0), (1 1 0), (0 1 0), (0 1 1), (0 0 1) and (1 0 1). The state transitions occur at intervals of approximately 60 degrees. Decoder 120 extracts the six possible sensor combinations or states and feeds the discrete information to commutation control circuit 150, which generates signals for energizing the appropriate stator coils within the motor.
  • commutation control circuit 150 which generates signals for energizing the appropriate stator coils within the motor.
  • Commutation control 150 provides a commutation signal to PWM generator 170, which, in turn, uses pulse-width modulated signals to drive three- phase inverter block 180.
  • PWM generator 170 uses pulse-width modulated signals to drive three- phase inverter block 180.
  • three-phase inverter block 180 sources electrical current to one coil of the stator while sinking current through another coil. Due to the direction of the coil windings and the direction of current flow therein, one coil will attract the rotor while the other coil repels. The rotor is thus pulled (and pushed) in the desired direction.
  • the duty cycles (i.e., the relative pulse-widths) of the signals from PWM generator 170 determine how long the bursts of drive current last within the stator. By modulating the duty cycle based on the control signal received from control function 160, a higher average drive current (or lower average), and a correspondingly stronger (or weaker) pull over time by the stator coils, may be achieved to implement acceleration and deceleration of the rotor.
  • FIG 2 illustrates one example of a three-phase inverter coupled to a stator having three coils 200A-200C.
  • the coil arrangement shown is bipolar in nature, meaning that the coils share a single neutral node (209), such that when one coil is sourcing current, another coil must be sinking current. In this way, one coil will be attracting a first pole of a rotor magnet, and a second coil will be attracting the opposite pole of a rotor magnet and/or repelling the first pole. Unipolar arrangements may also be used, where each coil is driven independently, in only one direction.
  • three-phase inverter 180 is implemented with six transistors (201A-B, 202A-B and 203A-B), represented in this example by FETs (field effect transistors).
  • each FET may have a clamping diode coupled in parallel.
  • FETs 201 A, 202A and 203A are shown as P-type transistors, though they may also be implemented with N-type transistors.
  • the source nodes of FETs 201A, 202A and 203A are commonly coupled to positive power supply node 204.
  • the source nodes of FETs 201B, 202B and 203B are commonly coupled to ground node or negative power supply node 205.
  • the drain nodes of FETs 201A and 201B are commonly coupled to node 206, which is further coupled to coil 200A.
  • the drain nodes of FETs 202A and 202B are commonly coupled to node 207, which is further coupled to coil 200B.
  • the drain nodes of FETs 203A and 203B are commonly coupled to node 208, which is further coupled to coil 200C.
  • Control signals Al, Bl and CI are coupled to the gates of FETs
  • control signals A2, B2 and C2 are coupled to the gates of FETs 201B, 202B and 203B, respectively, and are responsible for determining when FETs 201B, 202B and 203B will sink current from coils 200A, 200B and 200C, respectively.
  • the control loop determines the timing of control signals Al, A2, Bl, B2, CI and C2, to pull (and optionally push) the rotor to achieve the desired rotation.
  • an optical encoder is attached to BLDC motor 110.
  • the optical encoder includes LED 104, disk 105 and photo sensor 106.
  • the signal output of photo sensor 106 is provided to timer 130.
  • Speed calculation circuit 140 computes the rotor speed using information available from timer 130. That information may include, for example, the timed interval between detection of consecutive notches or the number of notches detected within a fixed time interval.
  • the computed speed 102 is then compared with speed command 101 to generate a speed error, which is used within control function 160 to generate the modulation control signal for PWM generator 170.
  • Control function 160 may be implemented with, for example, a PI (proportional- integral) controller or a PID (proportional-integral-derivative) controller.
  • optical encoders and other speed transducers A disadvantage of optical encoders and other speed transducers is that the extra hardware of the encoder takes up space in the housing of the device and increases the overall weight of the device. Further, optical encoders are expensive. For larger devices, the increased size, weight and cost may not be important factors in the device design. However, in portable ventilator design, it is desirable that each ventilator unit be compact, lightweight, and affordable. Thus, the additional size, weight and cost of separate speed transducers make them undesirable as solutions for speed control in a portable ventilator.
  • Figure 1 is a block diagram of a BLDC motor controller with a separate optical encoder.
  • Figure 2 is a circuit diagram of a three-phase inverter circuit driving a stator with three coils.
  • Figure 3 is a block diagram of a compressor assembly in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
  • Figure 4 is an illustration of a cross-sectional view of a motor /compressor system in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
  • Figure 5 is an illustration of an arrangement of the drive gears in a Roots blower compressor, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
  • Figure 6 is an illustration of an arrangement of analog Hall sensors on a PC board in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
  • Figure 7 is a schematic diagram of a pressure control servo in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
  • Figure 8 is an illustration of a flow-rate control servo in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
  • Figure 9 is an illustration of a speed control servo in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
  • Figures 10A and 10B illustrate the positioning of analog Hall sensors with respect to a BLDC rotor magnet to provide rotor position measurement, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIGS HA and 11B are illustrations of sample analog sensor outputs during BLDC rotor rotation, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
  • Figure 12 is a flow diagram of a speed servo calibration process in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
  • Figure 13 is a flow diagram of a position and speed computation process in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.
  • the invention provides a control system for a BLDC motor.
  • An embodiment of the present invention controls the airflow provided to a patient using a brushless DC (BLDC) motor to drive a Roots blower gas compressor. Coupling a Roots blower compressor with a BLDC motor provides a fully capable compressor in a small, cost-efficient package.
  • the speed of the BLDC motor, and hence the air flow rate may be precisely controlled usin ⁇ the outputs of analog Hall effect sensors to calculate angular position and speed for a speed control servo.
  • analog sensors are located within a BLDC motor assembly to provide continuous signals based on the magnetic flux sensed from a magnet attached to the rotor of the motor.
  • sensor signals may be sampled at a sample rate that is independent of the angular speed of the rotor. Speed and position accuracy can therefore be maintained across the full range of rotor speeds.
  • the sensor signals are processed in a position function to obtain the rotor angular position.
  • one possible position function is the arctangent function.
  • the arctangent function may be computed, for example, using an arithmetic computation, a small angle approximation, a polynomial evaluation approach, a table lookup approach, or a combination of various methods.
  • the angular speed may be derived by differentiating the angular position over time.
  • the invention provides a control system for a brushless DC motor that can be used to drive a compressor in a portable mechanical ventilator.
  • a brushless DC motor that can be used to drive a compressor in a portable mechanical ventilator.
  • numerous specific details are set forth to provide a more thorough description of embodiments of the invention. It will be apparent, however, to one skilled in the art, that the invention may be practiced without these specific details. In other instances, well known features have not been described in detail so as not to obscure the invention.
  • Mechanical ventilators are normally bulky machines used mostly in hospitals to assist patients who cannot breathe on their own. Recent advances in technology have resulted in a generation of portable generators that can be used outside the hospital. The current trend is to reduce the size and power consumption of mechanical ventilators while providing the full capability of full size hospital ventilator units.
  • a mechanical ventilator creates positive intrapulmonary pressure to assist breathing. Positive intrapulmonary pressure is created by delivering gas to the patient's lungs so that positive pressure is created within the alveoli (i.e. the final branches of the respiratory free that act as the primary gas exchange units of the lung).
  • a mechanical ventilator is essentially a device that generates a controlled flow of gas into a patient's airways during the inspiratory phase, and allows gas to flow out of the lungs during the exhalation phase.
  • Mechanical ventilators use a gas compressor to generate the required airflow.
  • the present invention involves the precision speed control of an electric motor that may be used to drive a compressor in a mechanical ventilator.
  • Mechanical ventilators may have various modes of operation, e.g., pressure control and volume control. One common thread amongst most mechanical ventilators is that the desired operating mode is achieved by controlling the gas flow rate produced by the gas compressor.
  • the motor is a brushless DC (BLDC) motor driving a Roots blower used as a compressor in a portable mechanical ventilator.
  • the flow rate and pressure provided by the compressor are controlled by the speed of the BLDC motor.
  • BLDC brushless DC
  • embodiments of the present invention employ analog sensors (e.g., analog Hall effect sensors, anisotropic magneto-resistive (AMR) sensors, etc.) to provide continuous rotor position and speed feedback for dosed loop control.
  • analog sensors e.g., analog Hall effect sensors, anisotropic magneto-resistive (AMR) sensors, etc.
  • FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a motor /compressor system in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
  • the motor/compressor system comprises Roots blower 302 coupled to BLDC motor 304.
  • Gas i.e., air
  • the air from inlet 308 is compressed by Roots blower 302, and then passed to the patient and /or other sections of the mechanical ventilator through outlet 310.
  • Fluid communication paths are provided from the input of Roots blower 302 to solenoid valve 312, and from the output of Roots blower 302 to solenoid valve 314.
  • Ambient air pressure is also channeled to solenoid valves 312 and 314 via ambient inlets 316 and 318, respectively.
  • the output fluid communication channels of solenoid valves 312 and 314 are provided to blower differential pressure transducer 340 to convert the pressure differential between the two channels into an electrical signal representative of that pressure differential.
  • transducer 340 measures the difference between the output pressure and input pressure of Roots blower 302.
  • Processor 320 provides control of solenoid valves 312 and 314, with solenoid drivers 232 transforming the digital control signals from processor 320 into power DC signals capable of driving the solenoid valves.
  • Absolute pressure transducer 322 and temperature transducer 324 generate electrical signals representing the absolute pressure level and the temperature.
  • Each of transducers 322, 324 and 340 are coupled to transducer (XDCR) interface block 326, which may provide signal amplification and filtering of the analog signals that are then provided to A/D (analog-to-digital) converter circuit 338.
  • A/D converter 338 transforms the analog signals into digital values that may be processed by processor 320.
  • Processor 320 In addition to A/D converter circuit 338, Processor 320 also has the following associated circuitry: flash memory 348, JTAG test circuitry 346, random access memory (RAM) 344, and UARTs (universal asynchronous receiver-transmitters) 342 and 336.
  • External JTAG connector 350 is coupled to JTAG circuit 346 to facilitate hardware tests and debugging in accordance with the JTAG standard.
  • Telemetry connector 352 is coupled to UART 342 for the transmission of measured ventilator parameters to a remote system, e.g., for monitoring purposes.
  • Communication and power connector 354 is coupled to UART 336 for facilitating further external communication with the ventilator system, e.g., for operational testing and control. Connector 354 also provides any necessary power signals to the motor/compressor system (e.g., 3.3, 5.0 and/or 15 VDC (volts DC)).
  • Analog sensors 306 are arranged on a PC board in a circular pattern perpendicular to the rotor shaft of BLDC motor 304 and adjacent to a two-pole magnet attached to the end of the rotor shaft. Analog sensors 306 provide measurements needed for computation of BLDC rotor position. The analog outputs of sensors 306 are passed through sensor interface 328 (e.g., for amplification and filtering), and then into A/D converter circuit 338, where the analog sensor signals are converted into digital values for processing within processor 320. Processor 320 executes software instructions to implement certain elements of the motor /compressor control loop, as will be described in detail later in this specification.
  • Processor 320 may be implemented, for example, with a general purpose processor or with a digital signal processor (DSP). Other embodiments may implement the functionality of processor 320 in firmware (e.g., instructions stored in an EPROM) or as equivalent logic in a hardware device (e.g., an ASIC (application specific integrated circuit) or an FPGA (field programmable gate array)).
  • firmware e.g., instructions stored in an EPROM
  • ASIC application specific integrated circuit
  • FPGA field programmable gate array
  • Processor 320 receives the digitized sensor signals and pressure measurements via A/D converter block 338 (values may use RAM 344 for temporary storage), and determines an appropriate speed control value based upon the control process implemented (e.g., pressure control or volume control). Processor 320 also generates the appropriate commutation control signals given the current commutation state, and modulates the pulse widths of those commutation control signals based on the speed control value. The modulated commutation control signals are provided to three-phase inverter 330.
  • Three-phase inverter 330 generates drive signals for the individual stator coils in BLDC motor 304, as previously described.
  • the system may also include a current limit circuit 334 coupled to three-phase inverter block 330.
  • FIG 4 is an illustration of a cross-sectional view of a motor /compressor system, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
  • the BLDC motor (400) end of the motor /compressor system comprises sensor PC board 410, which provides support for a plurality of analog sensors 401A-D (See Figure 6); rotor shaft 416; rotor 402; magnet 412 attached at the BLDC end of rotor shaft 416; and stator 414.
  • the Roots blower end comprises toad bearings 418 and 422, impellers 430 and 428, shafts 416 and 426, and gears 424.
  • the arrangement of gears 424, at the end of rotor shaft 416 opposite BLDC motor 400, is more clearly shown in Figure 5.
  • the BLDC motor controller energizes stator 414 to cause rotor 402 to rotate.
  • the rotation of rotor 402 causes rotor shaft 416 to turn a first impeller 430.
  • Rotor shaft 416 also drives gears 424, which in turn drive shaft 426 and the second impeller 428 of the Roots blower.
  • the operation of impellers 430 and 428 draws air into the Roots blower through a port on one side of the motor /compressor system, and forces the air out a second opposing port at a desired pressure/flow rate.
  • Magnet 412 rotates at one end of shaft 416, eliciting a sensor response from analog sensors 401A-D, which is processed in the servo loops (not shown) of the BLDC motor controller to control the angular speed of rotor 402.
  • the Roots blower provides the appropriate gas flow rate to achieve positive pressure ventilation (positive intrapulmonary pressure) in a patient.
  • gas flow produced by a mechanical ventilator either targets a desired volume with variable pressure, or controls the pressure while allowing the volume to vary.
  • each ventilator mode has its own servo loop wrapped around an inner motor speed control loop. The various control modes are discussed below.
  • processor 320 implements the flow rate and speed control servos on PC board 410, while the pressure control logic is implemented by a second ventilator processor that is external to the roots blower assembly, but in communication with processor 320 via a serial link.
  • the pressure control mode involves controlling the inspiratory pressure for the duration of the inhalation cycle.
  • the Roots blower is required to provide a flow-rate to the patient to achieve a specific waveform or pressure profile.
  • a schematic diagram of the pressure control servo mode is shown in Figure 7. As illustrated, the desired pressure 701 is compared against the actual pressure 703 ' developed in the patient's airway to generate an error, which is compensated in block 710 to generate a flow-rate command.
  • the compensation in block 710 may include circuits such as PID controllers (Proportional-Integral-Derivative Controllers) and pressure to flow rate conversion factors.
  • the flow-rate command is subsequently passed to the flow rate control servo 720, which commands the Roots blower to generate the desired gas flow rate.
  • the flow rate may vary depending on how much gas is needed to satisfy the pressure requirement.
  • the flow rate servo is discussed below.
  • volume control mode In the volume control mode, a desired amount of air is delivered to the patient's lungs during the inspiratory cycle. Thus, during inhalation, the ventilator is providing a desired gas flow rate to the patient.
  • Figure 8 is an illustration of the flow-rate control servo in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
  • the flow-rate command 801 is compared against the actual flow rate 803 in compensation block 810.
  • the actual flow rate 803 may be estimated by using the computed motor speed and measured blower differential pressure 240 in a blower characteristic function 830. Characteristic function 830 may be determined empirically, for example, by observing what the flow rate of the compressor is at known compressor speeds and differential pressures.
  • the flow-rate error is compensated in block 810 to generate a BLDC motor speed command.
  • the compensation in block 810 may include circuits incorporating any combination of proportional, integral, and derivative controllers (e.g., PI or PID controllers).
  • the speed command is subsequently passed to the speed servo 820, which commands the Roots blower to generate the desired motor speed needed to satisfy the flow requirement.
  • FIG. 9 is an illustration of a speed control servo in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
  • the speed control servo comprises controller 960; speed calculation module 940; commutation control circuit 950; position computation module 930; analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit 920; pulse-width modulation (PWM) generator circuit 170; three-phase inverter circuit 180; BLDC motor 910; and analog sensors 401A-D.
  • ADC analog-to-digital converter
  • PWM pulse-width modulation
  • Controller block 960 compares the desired motor speed (i.e. speed command 101) with the actual motor speed 902 to generate a speed error.
  • the speed error is appropriately compensated and integrated, if necessary, to generate a duty cycle command to PWM generator 170.
  • PWM generator 170 generates modulated control signals, which three-phase inverter 180 uses to drive the stator coils of BLDC motor 910.
  • the commutation circuit is described herein with respect to a three-phase inverter, the present invention may be practiced with any commutation circuit incorporating any number of commutation phases, coils and /or rotor magnets.
  • the BLDC rotor position is measured using multiple analog sensors (e.g. analog Hall effect sensors or AMR sensors) 401A-D.
  • the analog sensors produce sine and cosine (quadrature) signals from which the rotor angular position may be derived.
  • the outputs of the analog sensors are converted to digital equivalents in ADC block 920, and the digitized sine and cosine signals are used to compute rotor angular position in position computation block 930.
  • the sample rate of ADC block 920 may be set to any value sufficiently high to provide proper commutation at the highest desired speed.
  • the ADC sample rate may be set independently of the angular speed of the rotor, and the sample rate can remain constant over the entire range of angular speeds.
  • the computed angular position is used to compute the actual rotor speed in block 940, and used in commutation control block 950 to send commutation control signals to PWM generator 170.
  • FIG 10A is plane view of PC board 410 showing the radial positioning of the analog sensors 401 A-401D with respect to magnet 412 and the axis formed by rotor shaft 416, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention.
  • Magnet 412 is shown centered on the rotor shaft axis. Magnet 412 may be located at the tip of the BLDC rotor, or at any other location in the BLDC assembly where the sensors can sense the magnetic flux.
  • the radius of Magnet 412 is represented in Figure 10A by "R M ".
  • the four analog sensors are positioned at an equal radial distance "R s " from the central axis of shaft 416, and offset from each other by approximately 90 degrees around that axis.
  • FIG. 10B is a side view of the BLDC motor and control portion of the blower assembly, showing the axial offset between analog sensors 401A-401D and magnet 412. Magnet 412 is shown attached to the end of rotor shaft 416 and analog sensors 401A-401D are attached to PC board 410.
  • the axial offset" Z" from the surface of each analog sensor to the surface of magnet 412 is minimized to prevent weakening of sensor signal strength, while maintaining sufficient distance to avoid any contact or undesired friction effects due to hardware alignment deviations within prescribed design tolerances. In one embodiment, for example, Z is approximately 0.052 inches.
  • the strength and characteristics of the outputs of the analog sensors depend on the radial distance (Rg) of the analog sensor relative to the radius (R M ) of magnet 412, or more accurately, the absolute distance between the analog sensor and the surface of magnet 412: (Z 2 + (Rg - R M ) 2 ) ⁇ 5 .
  • Most analog sensors have characteristics such that as R s approaches R M , the sensor signal strength gets stronger, but the signal qualify becomes less ideal in terms of the shape of the output signals (e.g., the signals become more square in nature). The converse is also true, i.e., the shape of the sensor signal improves as R s increases relative to R M but the signal strength diminishes.
  • the optimal location may be determined experimentally.
  • the radial distance R s may be approximately 0.17 inches
  • the radius R M may be approximately 0.09 inches, for example.
  • embodiments of the invention may use any number of sensors adequate to provide analog position signals that may be used to calculate the rotor angular position. Providing pairs of opposing sensors (i.e., 180 degrees offset), however, and subtracting one opposing sensor's signal from the other can provide performance advantages, such as an improved signal-to-noise ratio. In embodiments where the sensors (or sensor pairs) are offset from each other by a known amount other than 90 degrees, the phase difference may be accounted for in the position calculation.
  • sine and cosine signals are obtained with approximately twice the amplitude of each sensor signal alone. Further, minor deviations in the sinusoidal profiles (e.g., due to unequal magnetic strength between the poles of the magnet, or slight misalignment of the magnet with respect to the center of the rotor shaft axis) may be diminished or canceled out by the combination of signals from opposing sensors.
  • Figure HA is an illustration of sample outputs of the four analog sensors of Figure 10A while the BLDC rotor is rotating.
  • signal waveform 1102 represents the output of sensor 401A
  • signal waveform 1104 represents the output of sensor 401C
  • Signal waveform 1108 represents the output of sensor 40 IB
  • signal waveform 1106 represents the output of sensor 401D. If waveform 1104 is subtracted from waveform 1102, the resultant is signal 1110 with characteristics of a sine function and twice the magnitude of either of signals 1104 and 1102. Because the operation is differential, most electrical or common mode noise is eliminated. By the same token, subtracting waveform 1106 from waveform 1108 provides signal 1112 with characteristics of a cosine function and twice the magnitude of either of signals 1106 and 1108.
  • Figure 11B illustrates how waveforms 1106, 1108 and 1112 are altered under circumstances where magnet 412 is offset from the center of rotor shaft 416 by some small distance, such that the north pole of the magnet rotates closer to the analog sensors than the south pole.
  • the positive portions of waveforms 1106 and 1108 are boosted by the nearer rotation of the north pole.
  • the negative portions of waveforms 1106 and 1108 are affected in the opposite manner, showing a diminished magnitude.
  • the zero crossings of both waveforms are shifted in position. Use of either sensor signal alone to determine angular position would yield erroneous results.
  • waveform 1112 the subtraction of waveform 1106 from 1108 yields a substantially sinusoidal result, correcting for the magnitude distortion and the zero crossing shifts.
  • the actual rotor angular position may be obtained using various computational techniques.
  • the angular position may be generated by computing an angular position function that corresponds to the arctangent of selected quotients of the sine and cosine signals.
  • the arctangent function may be computed using an arithmetic computation, a small angle approximations a polynomial evaluation approach, a table lookup approach, or a combination of various methods.
  • the polynomial approach involves generating and storing coefficients for each signal in each quadrant.
  • the coefficients may be generated in the laboratory by obtaining multiple measurements of the signals for known rotor angular positions in each quadrant, and then using a Least Squares Fit approximation to solve for the coefficients.
  • coefficient determination may be performed as part of an initial device calibration process, as shown in the flow diagram of Figure 12.
  • the stator is commutated to achieve a constant angular speed of the rotor in step 1200. This may be done, for example, by using a simple counter to act as the angular position measurement of the rotor.
  • the counter may be accelerated, while the drive current to the stator coils is ramped down from a large initial value to a smaller steady state value. This allows the rotor to synchronize with the stator and stabilize.
  • readings may be obtained from the analog sensors in step 1201.
  • step 1202 readings from opposing sensors are combined as previously described to provide sinusoidal waveforms 1110 and 1112.
  • step 1203 the minimum and maximum values of waveforms
  • 1110 and 1112 may be may be measured and recorded, preferably but not necessarily over several rotations of the rotor. Those minimum and maximum values may then be used to determine any DC offsets in the sensor values that need to be compensated. Those DC offset values maybe used to compensate the calibration sinusoidal waveform data, and may also be stored for use in compensating sensor waveform data during normal operation of the device.
  • the commutation correction angle that is, the angular offset between the position for the magnet and the simultaneous position of the rotor.
  • the zero crossings of the sinusoids may be used to identify the commutation correction angle.
  • a zero value from waveform 1110 combined with a positive value from waveform 1112 indicates an angular position of zero degrees for magnet 412.
  • the corresponding commutation angle (determined from the counter) represents the commutation correction angle. This correction angle is needed due to small phase misalignments between the magnet and the rotor that may occur during manufacturing.
  • step 1205 sensor readings and the corresponding actual position values from the counter may be used to derive coefficients for each quadrant of rotation.
  • the derived coefficients are stored, indexed by quadrant, for use in computing position values during normal operation.
  • L is a vector of coefficients (e.g. three coefficients may be adequate if the polynomial equation used to compute the rotor angular position involves three elements: sine, cosine, and a bias), and H and Z are measured sensor and position data, respectively,
  • H may be a matrix containing in each row, the sine (s), the cosine (c), and a constant (i.e. one) for each known angular rotor position.
  • Z is a column vector containing each known angular rotor position (p).
  • the H matrix and the Z vector may be as illustrated below:
  • the H matrix and Z vector are populated with the measured sensor and position data, and then used to solve the Least Squares Fit equation above.
  • the coefficients l v l 2/ and l 3 may be stored, indexed by quadrants in memory, such as the flash memory of processor 320.
  • sine(_) and cosine(_) are the outputs from the respective sensor pairs.
  • the coefficients may be determined such that the computed rotor angular position overlaps into the adjoining quadrants.
  • the process of determining the least squares fit may be performed, for example, in processor 320, in a calibration application executing on another processor connected serially to processor 320, or in both processor 320 and in a calibration application executing on another processor (external or internal).
  • FIG. 13 is a flow diagram of a position and speed computation process used during normal operation, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.
  • step 1300 sensor readings are obtained for the current sample interval in accordance with a desired sample rate.
  • step 1301 those sensor readings are combined as previously described (i.e., by applying subtraction to readings of opposing sensors), and in step 1302, DC correction (determined during the calibration process) may be applied to the combined readings.
  • the current position is derived from the sensor readings by identifying the current quadrant in step 1303, and looking up the appropriate stored coefficients in step 1304.
  • the current quadrant may be easily identified, in one embodiment, by analyzing the signs of the combined sensor readings. For example, when both readings are positives the current quadrant is the first quadrant (i.e., zero to ninety degrees).
  • step 1305 the current coefficients and combined readings are used to solve the angular position equation and yield a computed position value.
  • the commutation correction angle may be added to the computed position value to generate the actual position value for use in commutation control. If, during calibration, the correction angle was applied to the position values prior to deriving the quadrant coefficients, then the correction angle need not be reapplied during normal operation, because the correction angle is already accounted for within the derived coefficients.
  • the angular speed is computed in step 1307 (which preferably occurs after step 1305 because the commutation correction angle is irrelevant to the speed computation) by taking the derivative of the computed position values, e.g., subtracting the stored position of the prior sample interval from the current position and multiplying the result by the sampling frequency. Multiplying the position difference by the sampling frequency may be omitted if the speed command from the flow rate servo is normalized appropriately.
  • the position and speed computation process begins once more at step 1300.
  • a grid of possible angular position assignments to both sensor pair measurements allows implementation of a look-up table for assigning the angular position measurement to the readings of the sensor signals.
  • a reading may be assigned or dismissed so that the update is omitted if the signals are outside the limits associated with acceptable angular positions.
  • a table lookup embodiment may automatically assign a predetermined angular position to each pair (sine and cosine) of valid coordinates or skip a position update when either of the sine and cosine data is not to be trusted.
  • a table lookup to compute the phase angle allows for elimination of signals that cannot be trusted for accuracy and provides for sparse real-time computation of the quotients and inverse trigonometric functions (arctangent).
  • the angular position computation process may be done entirely in the analog domain.
  • the ADC 920 may not be required to convert the sensor outputs to digital form before computation of the arctangent.
  • the arctangent may be approximated for small angles by the tangent obtained from the analog division of the sine and the cosine signals.
  • Such analog division can be implemented by placing a multiplier in the feedback path of an analog multiplier device.
  • the position and speed signals may also be filtered using some form of low-pass filter.
  • some form of low-pass filter For instance, an Infinite-Impulse Response (IIR.) filter may be employed.
  • IIR. Infinite-Impulse Response
  • An appropriate bandwidth will depend on the sampling rate of the processor, how much delay is tolerable, and the electrical noise characteristics of the environment of the BLDC motor.

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L'invention concerne une méthode et un appareil pour commander un moteur CC sans balais (BLDC) sur une large plage de vitesses angulaires. Des capteurs magnétiques analogues permettent d'obtenir des mesures de signal continu associées à la position angulaire du rotor, à une vitesse échantillon indépendante de la vitesse angulaire du rotor. Dans un mode de réalisation de l'invention, des mesures de signal analogues sont subséquemment traitées au moyen d'une fonction arctangente pour obtenir la position angulaire du rotor. L'arctangente peut être calculée au moyen d'un calcul arithmétique, une petite approximation angulaire, à savoir une approche d'évaluation polynomiale, une approche de consultation de table, ou une combinaison de méthodes variées. Dans un mode de réalisation de l'invention, le rotor BLDC est utilisé pour entraîner un dispositif de soufflage Roots, servant de compresseur dans un système de ventilation mécanique portable.
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