提高系统效率 和 更精密的控制
In this page#4, we would like to explain how Currentier can contribute to "Improving system efficiency and providing more precise control".
电流传感器
In recent years, as factory automation (FA) proceeding, many control devices such as general inverters, AC servo motor drives, and controllers for robots have been installed in factories and other facilities. For such control devices, there are requirements for finer processing and further energy savings to reduce production costs. In order to achieve these requirements, it is necessary to improve the control performance of the motor and bring the motor rotation closer to the ideal state.
Currentier can contribute to improving system efficiency and providing more precise control by following three reasons:
1. Improving torque control performance
Figure 1 shows the block diagram of a servo motor. A servo motor feeds back signals of current sensor and encoder to control torque, speed and position. The signal of current sensor is used for torque control.
The specifications of current sensors that contribute to the torque control performance include below:
Compared to other coreless current sensor ICs, Currentier has better accuracy in each aspect.
Figure 2 shows the result of calculating how this specification difference appears as a torque error. The calculated system uses a coreless current sensor IC as the phase current control of the inverter and is assumed to be used in two-phase current detection.
Orange : Competitor's coreless current sensor IC
Blue : Currentier CZ37 series
The horizontal axis is the electrical angle and the vertical axis is the amount of torque error (standardized to CZ37), assuming an ideal system with no errors except for the offset and current sensitivity error of the current sensor IC itself.
As it can be seen from Figure 2, the error of the coreless current sensor IC is directly related to the torque error, and selecting a current sensor with high accuracy and a small error will lead to improve torque control performance.
In addition, there is a significant influence on torque error caused by the noise. Figure 3 shows how much the amount of torque can be influenced by the noise of CZ37 series and competitor's coreless current sensor IC. As in Figure 2, it is calculated in the system of two phase current detection of the inverter, assuming an ideal system with no errors except for the noise of the current sensor. As the results show, it can be controlled with a much smaller torque error than other products by using CZ37.
As for AC servo motor controls, the shunt + isolated ADC method has been more widely used than the coreless current sensor IC. It is because the adoption of conventional current sensors has been limited due to their insufficient current detection accuracy compared to the shunt method.
However, Currentier has been increasingly replacing shunt method because it can achieve the same or better performance than shunt method (Figure 4&5) while achieving system down-sizing.
2. Low vibration motors
Current sensor is used for torque control as already explained in section 1. However, feedback circuits affect position and speed control as well because it operates at the highest frequency.
Particularly in the field of AC servo motors which high-end encoders (24bit) are used, the resolution of current sensor is mostly insufficient to match the resolution of encoder. In such cases, by using Currentier which detects the current with high-resolution, not only noise in torque control but also in speed and position control can be reduced. As a result, it achieves low motor vibration. CZ37 series is the coreless current IC that can provide significantly high-resolution and its specifications are nearly 5 times better than those of competitors. (Figure 6)
3. Improving system efficiency
In recent years, with increasing interest in the environment, improving the efficiency of industrial and residential equipment has become a major issue. Thus, an attention has been paid to the power-factor correction (PFC) circuit. In the past, control ICs for PFCs were widely used, but recently, circuit composed of discrete components such as interleaved PFCs (Figure 7) have been adopted in order to achieve even higher power factor and higher efficiency as well as downsizing. For example, in multi air conditioners, commercial air conditioners and room air conditioners, SEER (Seasonal Energy Efficient Ratio) is regarded as important. To improve SEER, new development of the above PFC circuit is underway.
The higher power factor and the higher efficiency can be made possible by a newly developed PFC circuit method and high accuracy current detection. On the other hand, for system downsizing, it is necessary to increase carrier frequency. (By increasing carrier frequency, L and C in the Figure 7 can be small (*2). Thus, to achieve high power factor, high efficiency and system downsizing all together, a current sensor with high accuracy and fast response is needed.
AKM's coreless current sensor "Currentier" features both high accuracy and fast response, which is ideal for PFCs in power supplies for air conditioners and other applications.
(*2) refer to #01 System Downsizing.
Summary
AKM's coreless current sensor IC Currentier contributes to "Improving system efficiency and providing more precise control" by
We have prepared a tool for simple simulation of servo motor torque error. You can experience the low noise and high accuracy of AKM's current sensor. You can also compare it with the current detection method that you are currently using.
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