Interpolation method in hardware-in-the-loop simulation for brushless DC motor

To test and optimize brushless dc motor (BLDCM) controller, a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) real time simulation schematic based on DSP plus FPGA was presented. BLDCM model calculating cycle is up to 14us, which leads to the motor states updating at least one motor model cycle time delay, and the delay will result to accumulative error. To pursue an accurate and fast BLDCM HIL simulation results, a new interpolation approach was proposed. This approach is processed in FPGA and parallel computing with the BLDCM model in DSP. During BLDCM model cycle, the interpolation method is used to improve the accuracy by changing the BLDCM states according to the real time phase voltage signal. In view of the nonlinear dynamic BLDCM model, a lookup table of BLDCM parameters obtained from static finite element analyses (FEA) is used. By using the method, simulation performance under disturbance conditions is improved, and the faster computation speed is obtained while keeping the same high precision as the FEA model.