DocumentCode :
2367354
Title :
Holistic Modelling of a Fuel Cell Power System and FPGA Controller using Handel-C
Author :
Petrinec, Kresimir ; Cirstea, Marcian
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Electr. Eng. & Comput., Zagreb Univ.
fYear :
2006
fDate :
6-10 Nov. 2006
Firstpage :
4951
Lastpage :
4954
Abstract :
The paper is concerned with the research work carried out in the area of holistic modelling of renewable energy systems, targeting field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) for the rapid prototyping of the digital electronic controllers. The object of the novel approach, using DK4 design and modelling environment from Celoxica, based on Handel-C novel programming language, is a fuel cell power system, consisting of: 2.5 kW fuel cell stack, buck converter, PI controller and a pulse-width modulator (PWM). Initially, the system was simulated using Matlab/Simulink/SimPowerSystem toolbox, for comparison. Later on, the model was successfully developed in Handel-C, following the new approach that allows the holistic functional simulation and optimisation of a system to be performed in the same environment as its controller hardware implementation and timing analysis/verification. The controller design was physically implemented in hardware onto a RC203 development board containing a Virtex II Xilinx FPGA with 3 million equivalent logic gates per chip and was successfully tested experimentally. The parameters of the implemented system can be observed directly at the board´s input/output interface and a real fuel cell power system can be connected directly to the newly designed hardware implemented digital controller
Keywords :
PI control; PWM power convertors; control system synthesis; digital control; field programmable gate arrays; fuel cell power plants; logic gates; power engineering computing; power station control; programming languages; Celoxica; DK4 design; FPGA controller; Handel-C; Matlab; PI controller; PWM; RC203 development; SimPowerSystem toolbox; Simulink; Virtex II Xilinx FPGA; buck converter; digital electronic controllers; equivalent logic gates; field programmable gate arrays; fuel cell power system; fuel cell stack; holistic modelling; programming language; pulse-width modulator; rapid prototyping; renewable energy systems; timing analysis; timing verification; Control system synthesis; Digital control; Field programmable gate arrays; Fuel cells; Hardware; Mathematical model; Power system modeling; Power system simulation; Pulse power systems; Pulse width modulation converters;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
IEEE Industrial Electronics, IECON 2006 - 32nd Annual Conference on
Conference_Location :
Paris
ISSN :
1553-572X
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0390-1
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/IECON.2006.347623
Filename :
4153171
Link To Document :
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