A Flexible and Inexpensive FPGA-Based Power Electronics and Drives Laboratory

Author

Brekken, Ted K. A. ; Mohan, Ned

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN

fYear

2006

fDate

18-22 June 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

As power electronics converters become more flexible and their control becomes more sophisticated, it is becoming more important for young engineers to learn to use modern digital control tools, such as FPGAs. This paper presents a flexible, inexpensive laboratory setup that can be configured for exploring a number of power converter topologies, controlled in both open loop and closed loop. In addition to driving passive loads, the setup can be used to demonstrate DC motor torque, speed, and position control, as well as variable speed 3-phase AC motor control

Keywords

closed loop systems; electric drives; field programmable gate arrays; open loop systems; power convertors; power engineering education; DC motor torque control; FPGA; FPGAs; closed loop control; digital control tools; drives; open loop control; position control; power electronics converters; speed control; variable speed 3-phase AC motor control; Circuit topology; DC motors; Digital control; Electric variables control; Field programmable gate arrays; Laboratories; Open loop systems; Position control; Power electronics; Power engineering and energy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics Specialists Conference, 2006. PESC '06. 37th IEEE

Conference_Location

Jeju

ISSN

0275-9306

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9716-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESC.2006.1712042

Filename

1712042