This application is a 35 U.S.C. § 371 National Stage Application of PCT/EP2016/070854, filed on Sep. 5, 2016, which claims the benefit of priority to Serial No. DE 10 2015 115 860.4, filed on Sep. 21, 2015 in Germany, the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.
The disclosure relates to a method for compensating for a delay in a feedback branch of a servo drive, wherein the servo drive can be provided for power-steering a vehicle, and to a steering system for a vehicle.
Electric motors which are used as servo motors for power-steering are known in the prior art. The electric motors are controlled, in particular, by inverters which can be designed, for example, as 3-phase half-bridges. These inverters are referred to as ECUs (ECU=electronic circuit unit).
Feedback signals from the electric motor to be controlled are required in order to control the ECU. The rotor position signal, in particular, is relevant in this case. Before the rotor position signal reaches the controller, it is conditioned by a hardware filter which can be designed as an LC filter (L=inductance and C=capacitance). A delay can result in this case. The measured values of the phase currents can likewise be processed by an electronic filter. These filters can also bring about a delay. In addition, delays can result due to the formation of eddy currents at metal components. The eddy currents can be temperature-dependent. A different delay typically results in each case. These delays can adversely affect the closed-loop control of the phase currents of the electric motor.
One object is therefore that of avoiding or at least reducing an effect of delays due to electronic conditioning of electrical feedback signals.
As the first embodiment of the disclosure, a method is provided for compensating for a delay in a feedback branch of a servo drive, wherein the servo drive is provided for power-steering a vehicle, including the steps of: determining the delay and arithmetically compensating for the delay.
As the second embodiment of the disclosure, a steering system for a vehicle is provided, including a feedback branch for a servo motor, wherein the steering system is suitable for applying a method as claimed in one of claims 1 to 6.
Exemplary embodiments are described in the dependent claims.
According to one exemplary embodiment of the disclosure, a method is provided, wherein the determination and/or the arithmetic compensation of the delay takes place on the basis of an arithmetic model.
Due to the use of an arithmetic model, a highly accurate and situation-specific compensation can take place.
In yet another embodiment according to the disclosure, a method is provided, wherein the delay results due to a filter, in particular an electronic filter for signal conditioning, and/or due to the formation of eddy currents and/or a temperature effect.
By taking the cause of the delay into consideration, possibilities result for cause-specific and, therefore, exact compensation.
In yet another embodiment according to the disclosure, a method is provided, wherein the determination and/or the arithmetic compensation of the delay takes place on the basis of a reference servo drive.
The use of a reference servo drive in a reference working environment provides for a simple application of the compensation model.
According to yet another exemplary embodiment of the disclosure, a method is provided, wherein the determination and/or the arithmetic compensation of the delay takes place on the basis of a measurement of one part of the servo drive and/or one part of the feedback branch.
By way of a part-specific measurement, a highly accurate compensation can result.
According to one exemplary embodiment of the disclosure, a method is provided, wherein the delay due to the formation of eddy currents takes place by measuring the spatial expansions of the corresponding metal conductor of the servo drive and/or of the feedback branch.
One idea of the disclosure can be considered that of carrying out a compensation for delays caused by electronic conditioning of electrical signals by means of an arithmetic compensation. A delay can also result due to the formation of eddy currents at metal components. In this case, suitable software can take the delays into consideration and, therefore, compensate for their disadvantageous effect. An electronic conditioning can take place, for example, by way of a filtering of a feedback signal. The filter can be designed as a hardware filter, for example as an LC filter.
The individual features can also be combined with one another, of course, whereby advantageous effects can also result, in part, which go beyond the sum of the individual effects.
Further details and advantages of the disclosure become clear on the basis of the exemplary embodiments represented in the drawings. In the drawings
It is noted that the term “comprise” does not rule out further elements or method steps, and the terms “a” and “an” do not rule out multiple elements and steps.
The reference numbers used are intended solely to increase the comprehensibility and should in no way be considered limiting, wherein the scope of protection of the disclosure is reflected by the claims.
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