How to know the motor current?

Dave Hunson

As you know we have "gMotorVars.VdcBus_kV " to get the DC bus voltage ,so Do we have any variable for total Current to see the motor current ?

thanks for attention

Dave.

over 6 years ago

0 Yanming Luo over 6 years ago

TI__Guru** 115420 points

You might get the Id and Iq vectors in amps as below
gMotorVars.Id_A = _IQmpy(CTRL_getId_in_pu(ctrlHandle), _IQ(USER_IQ_FULL_SCALE_CURRENT_A));
gMotorVars.Iq_A = _IQmpy(CTRL_getIq_in_pu(ctrlHandle), _IQ(USER_IQ_FULL_SCALE_CURRENT_A));

To get the phase curent in amps as below
_IQmpy(gAdcData.I.value[0], _IQ(USER_IQ_FULL_SCALE_CURRENT_A));
_IQmpy(gAdcData.I.value[1], _IQ(USER_IQ_FULL_SCALE_CURRENT_A));
_IQmpy(gAdcData.I.value[2], _IQ(USER_IQ_FULL_SCALE_CURRENT_A));

0 Dave Hunson over 6 years ago in reply to Yanming Luo

Expert 1740 points

Thanks dear Yanming Luo.
yes you are right but I need the total Motor current ,so would it be possible to do this equation?

TotalCurrent =sqrt((gMotorVars.Id_A*gMotorVars.Id_A)+(gMotorVars.Iq_A*gMotorVars.Iq_A));

is that right to get the total current value?

Thanks for attention

Regards.
Dave

0 Yanming Luo over 6 years ago in reply to Dave Hunson

TI__Guru** 115420 points

You can, it's the total vector current to the motor, not the dc bus current from power supply to the drive inverter.

0 Dave Hunson over 6 years ago in reply to Yanming Luo

Expert 1740 points

HI dear

I got a bit confuse ..

i thought the current vector is equal with the dc_bus current ,isn't it ?Why?

I would be happy if you explain about it.

I think what I need is DC Bus current .

thanks for attention

Dave.

0 Yanming Luo over 6 years ago in reply to Dave Hunson

TI__Guru** 115420 points

The vector current is from the output of both Id and Iq regulators and depends on the motor speed and its added load, it doesn't have a direct relationship with dc bus current since the output vector voltage is not equal to dc bus voltage also. Maybe, you could find more detailed information in a motor drive books, like "Modern Power Electronics and AC Drives" or other.

0 Dave Hunson over 6 years ago in reply to Yanming Luo

Expert 1740 points

Dear .

Happy new year !

1.my question is simple ,and that is would it be possible to get DC current bus from any variable (sort of like VDC bus which is in gMotorvar) if so,which one?

2. the other way would be to get it from Ifb_Sum (and write my own code for it),is that right ?

Thanks for attention .

Dave.

0 Dave Hunson over 6 years ago in reply to Yanming Luo

Expert 1740 points

Dear ,

Happy new year!

I think I realized about

TotalCurrent =sqrt((gMotorVars.Id_A*gMotorVars.Id_A)+(gMotorVars.Iq_A*gMotorVars.Iq_A));

take a look at this picture which has 2 leg shunt resistor .

Ia,Ib,Ic is the value of the current when PWM is ON which turned in to Id and Iq

in short, TotalCurrent is the amount of current which pass from IGBT/Mosfet Module when PWM is ON .Is that right?

in addition ,this current TotalCurrent =sqrt((gMotorVars.Id_A*gMotorVars.Id_A)+(gMotorVars.Iq_A*gMotorVars.Iq_A));

is like a pulse and depends on PWM carrier freq (15khz) we can not say this is the DC Current bus .am I right?

I would be happy if you answer these 2 questions .

Thanks for attention.

Regards.

Dave.

0 Yanming Luo over 6 years ago in reply to Dave Hunson

TI__Guru** 115420 points

1. In this case, using the shunt resistor on the low side, the current is sampling during the MOSFETs of the low side are ON, but all high side MOSFETs are OFF. The TotalCurrent you mentioned is the vector current from FOC side, not real current on h/w board or motor lines.
2. The current is a sinusoidal shape and is sampled using a shunt resistor on the low side, not dc-bus current, it's totally differenet.

You might have a look at Chapter 17 of instaSPIN user's guide (SPRUHJ1G ) which has a detailed description of this.

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